Cooperative Agreement NA17NOS4510100

The Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council awarded $4 million under the Comprehensive Plan Component Program (CFDA 87.051) to the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources on January 22, 2021. The project grant supports the implementation and monitoring of a comprehensive living shoreline initiative through August 30, 2026. As part of the award, $250,000 was provided to the Marine Environmental Sciences Consortium (doing business as Dauphin Island Sea Lab) to conduct living...

The Gulf Consortium was awarded a $4,660,161 Project Grant by the Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council under the Oil Spill Impact Program (CFDA 87.052) to implement Phase 1 of the Veterans Park Living Shoreline project in Fort Walton Beach, Florida. Through this award, the Gulf Consortium, in cooperation with its sub-recipient Okaloosa County, will construct a 2,000-foot living shoreline at the Veterans Park site to stabilize the shoreline, restore seagrasses, provide benthic and...

The US Geological Survey, through its Assistance to State Water Resources Research Institutes federal grant program (CFDA 15.805), awarded $403,905 to Louisiana State University from December 2022 through December 2025. The project grant will fund research linking watershed phosphorus discharge and legacy sediment phosphorus to climate variability and occurrences of harmful algal blooms in Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana. Specifically, the university will conduct sediment surveys to locate high...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded a $920,372 project grant to North Carolina State University under the Sea Grant Support program (CFDA 11.417) to co-develop a coastal protection design and siting framework and living shoreline training courses and certification program from January 1, 2023 to December 31, 2026. The university will collect stakeholder survey data on coastal adaptation options to compile in a centralized database, and continue monitoring living shoreline...

The Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (ADCNR) received a $6,175,557 Project Grant award from the Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council under the Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council Oil Spill Impact Program (CFDA #87.052) to implement the Little Lagoon Restoration Project. As the prime recipient, ADCNR will oversee the City of Gulf Shores, who serves as a subrecipient and implementing agency. Working with Auburn University, the University of South Alabama, and...

The US Geological Survey, through its Cooperative Research Units program (CFDA 15.812), awarded a $128,775 cooperative agreement to the Louisiana State University Agricultural Center to develop spatial and process-based models for restoring resilient oyster populations under current and future water quality conditions in Louisiana from September 2021 through September 2023. As part of the Cooperative Research Units program's mission to address state and local natural resource information needs...

The University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. was awarded a $999,998 project grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration under the Sea Grant Support program (CFDA 11.417) to develop enhanced guidelines and a geospatial visualization tool for marsh spatial planning in coastal Georgia. The project will integrate previous coastal research, conduct field sampling, and develop a high-resolution hydrodynamic model for coastal Georgia marshes. Researchers will use field study...

This Cooperative Agreement award of $750,000 from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Congressionally Identified Awards and Projects program (CFDA 11.469) will support a 3-year research project conducted by Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU) to understand the contribution of groundwater to surface water quality in the Estero Bay watershed in Southwest Florida. The key objectives of the project are to: 1) measure baseflow and estimate groundwater discharge into the...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is providing $1,875,000 in federal funding to Auburn University under the Congressionally Identified Awards and Projects program (CFDA 11.469) for the Living Shoreline Initiative in Baldwin County, Alabama. Through this Project Grant award, Auburn University will design and permit a large-scale (> 3,800 linear feet) demonstration living shoreline and design, permit, and construct a small-scale (< 800 linear feet) living...

The Louisiana State University will model changes in the distribution, phenology, and metapopulation structure of fish spawning aggregations for Nassau grouper and cubera snapper in three National Marine Sanctuaries under various climate change scenarios. Funded by the $171,930 cooperative agreement from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration under the Climate and Atmospheric Research program, LSU will use three CMIP6 climate models to assess oceanic conditions and habitat...