Cooperative Agreement NA20NMF4820288

This $350,000 Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of the Interior's Office of Insular Affairs (CFDA 15.875 - Economic, Social, and Political Development of the Territories) to the Executive Office of the Government of the Virgin Islands, Division of Coastal Zone Management, will support coral reef restoration activities in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The project will directly incorporate enhanced sexual reproduction techniques into the division's ongoing coral restoration efforts, a...

This Cooperative Agreement award, issued by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Coral Reef Conservation Program (CFDA 11.482), provides $1,042,960.00 to Arizona State University (ASU) to collaborate with the Hawaii Department of Aquatic Resources on coral thermal tolerance experiments. The project will assess local adaptation of Pocillopora meandrina coral genotypes to past environmental stresses, investigate the effectiveness of coral stress...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $963,000 Project Grant under the Congressionally Identified Awards and Projects program (CFDA 11.469) to Nova Southeastern University in Dania Beach, Florida. This 3-year grant, with a performance period from Mar 1, 2025 to Feb 29, 2028, will be used to expand the university's Coral Nursery Center facilities. Specifically, the funds will retrofit an existing structure to create a laboratory for culturing herbivorous...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $340,411 Cooperative Agreement under the Coral Reef Conservation Program (CFDA 11.482) to the Maui Ocean Center Marine Institute (MOCMI). The agreement supports a 3-year project to partner with the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology Coral Resilience Lab to outplant 1,000 thermally tolerant coral fragments at Olowalu Reef on Maui. At MOCMI's land-based coral nursery, the project will conduct thermal tolerance testing, enhance...

The Kakoo Oiwi organization will receive a $3 million Project Grant award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration under the Congressionally Identified Awards and Projects program (CFDA 11.469) to support the development of large living coral modules for outplanting off Waikiki, Hawaii. The modules will be grown using established state protocols and a minimum of 80 assorted coral modules measuring 16 inches or potentially up to 1 yard in size will be outplanted by September 2025....

This $830,000 Project Grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, under the Congressionally Identified Awards and Projects program, will support the development and outplanting of large living coral modules in shallow waters off Waikiki, Hawaii. The objective is to enhance marine tourism opportunities through the establishment of a free, maintained reef snorkeling experience to relieve pressure on natural reef habitats. The State of Hawaii Department of Land and Natural...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $7,658,195 Cooperative Agreement under the Habitat Conservation federal grant program (CFDA 11.463) to the University of Miami and partners. The purpose is to implement and scale-up strategies to increase the heat tolerance of restored corals in South Florida and the Florida Keys, including at Mission: Iconic Reefs locations. The project will focus on corals that survived the 2023 heating event and condition early life stages...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $5,000,869 Cooperative Agreement under the Habitat Conservation Federal Grant Program (CFDA 11.463) to Sea Ventures Inc., a small disadvantaged, veteran-owned business in Fajardo, Puerto Rico. The grant will fund the largest single-site coral restoration project in Puerto Rico, focused on propagating threatened elkhorn coral and developing a coral gene bank to preserve genetic material. The project will also include K-12...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award of $301,769 aims to develop a novel modular construction technology to simultaneously provide shoreline protection and restore coral reef ecosystems. The awardee, Designer Ecosystems LLC, will test the feasibility of producing an engineered habitat support structure that can accelerate the recovery of degraded reefs by facilitating the self-organization of supporting ecosystems....

The Environmental Protection Agency Region 4 awarded a $654,271 Project Grant to the University of Miami under the South Florida Geographic Initiatives Program (CFDA 66.484). The grant will support the University's project to combine coral reef restoration tools with citizen science engagement to establish a showcase restoration site in Miami-Dade County, Florida. Key deliverables include outplanting over 10,000 Acropora corals from at least 80 genotypes and 4,000 juveniles and fragments from...