Cooperative Agreement NA20NMF4550057

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) will receive $247,502 under a three-year Cooperative Agreement from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Sea Grant Support program (CFDA 11.417) to develop communications products for the Regional Lobster Extension Program (RLEP). WHOI Sea Grant will conduct needs assessments and interviews with nine stakeholder groups to identify information gaps and communication needs. Products will highlight results from the American...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $781,741 Project Grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to the Sea Education Association Inc. (SEA), a non-profit organization in Falmouth, Massachusetts. The 3-year grant, titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: GP-IN: ACCELERATING CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE CAREERS THROUGH A POSTBACCALAUREATE FELLOWSHIP IN WOODS HOLE (ACES WOODS HOLE)", aims to recruit, train, prepare, and retain post-baccalaureate fellows from...

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution was awarded a $588,000 project grant from the Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration under the Economic Adjustment Assistance (CFDA 11.307) federal grant program. The grant will fund a docking mitigation study in Woods Hole, Falmouth, Massachusetts. The Economic Adjustment Assistance program provides technical and planning assistance to regions experiencing adverse economic changes. This award will support Woods Hole Oceanographic...

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution received a $300,009 cooperative agreement award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration under the Sea Grant Support federal grant program (CFDA 11.417) for the period of August 1, 2021 through July 31, 2023. The award will support two partnership-based programs to increase consumer awareness and acceptance of seafood products in Massachusetts following impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the seafood industry. The first program,...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Chesapeake Bay Watershed Education and Training (B-WET) Program awarded a 3-year, $152,613 Cooperative Agreement to Boxerwood Education Association to support the Tending Project NEST (Nurturing Environmental Stewardship Together) initiative. This project aims to strengthen a long-running partnership between Boxerwood, a non-profit organization, and twelve under-resourced schools in rural western Virginia. The grant funding will be...

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution received a three-year, $548,143 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs to conduct collaborative research integrating Antarctic environmental and biological predictability to obtain optimal forecasts. The grant was awarded on September 1, 2021 under the NSF's Polar Programs, which aims to strengthen fundamental polar research conducted in or requiring polar environments (CFDA 47.078). Through this funding, Woods...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $182,800 Cooperative Agreement under the Sea Grant Support (CFDA 11.417) federal grant program to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) on February 1, 2025. The purpose of this one-year fellowship is to provide a graduate student with practical, hands-on policy-making training on marine and Great Lakes resources within the legislative and executive branches of the federal government in Washington, D.C. The key...

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution received a three-year, $237,524 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences to conduct collaborative research on morphodynamic simulations of coastal storms and overwash to characterize back-barrier lake stratigraphies. The research funded under this award will strengthen understanding of the integrated Earth system through basic research in atmospheric, earth, and ocean sciences as outlined under the National Science...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded a $143,000 Cooperative Agreement to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution under the Sea Grant Support federal grant program (CFDA 11.417) for February 1, 2023 through February 29, 2024. Under this award, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution will provide practical, hands-on policymaking training on marine and Great Lakes resources to a graduate student placed with legislative and executive branch hosts in Washington, D.C. The student,...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $195,725 Project Grant under its Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) to deploy and operate two current and pressure recording inverted echo sounders (CPIES) over the continental slope north of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. The goal is to study the multi-scale processes associated with the Gulf Stream's separation from the continental margin, complementing data from the adjacent Pioneer Array ocean...