Project Grant 80NSSC21K1471

This Project Grant awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Climate and Atmospheric Research Federal Grant Program (CFDA 11.431) will develop and test the ability of the regional MOM6 ocean model to reproduce observed fisheries variability in the Northeast Pacific and Northwest Atlantic regions. The $101,358 grant, awarded on September 1, 2024 with a completion date of August 31, 2027, will force two marine ecosystem models (BOATS and FEISTY) with hindcasts...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) Project Grant award of $818,793 to The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) aims to improve understanding of marine larval dispersal and its implications for managing marine resources. The project uses population genetic models to estimate dispersal kernels (spatial distribution of larval dispersal) for six reef fish species across three isolated South Pacific archipelagos. This data is then used to constrain...

This Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Cooperative Institute (Inter-Agency Funded Activities) program (CFDA 11.405), will develop a novel framework for coupling climate/ocean models with cross-regional ecosystem/biological models. The $425,000 project, running from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2026, aims to expedite the delivery of information on climate effects on species distributional shifts and ecosystem dynamics. This...

This $888,305 Cooperative Agreement award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Cooperative Institute (Inter-Agency Funded Activities) program (CFDA 11.405) will fund a project to use global seasonal forecasts to develop operational tools and management scenarios to enhance the resilience of protected species in the California Current Large Marine Ecosystem in response to climate variability and change. The project will focus on operationalizing two existing...

This Project Grant award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), funded under the Unallied Science Program (CFDA 11.472), provides $194,093 to the Massachusetts Department of Fish and Game Division of Marine Fisheries (MA DMF) for a collaborative effort to develop a predictive tool for identifying leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) distribution over the Northeast U.S. Shelf. The project aims to integrate data from multiple sources into an Integrated Species...

The University of Central Florida Board of Trustees Office of Research Division, doing business as UCF, has been awarded a $814,433 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences (CFDA 47.050) program. The 3-year grant, effective July 1, 2024, supports collaborative research to resolve and predict dispersal patterns of marine larvae using population genetic models. The project team will apply isolation-by-distance theory to estimate mean parent-offspring dispersal distances for...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will quantify the temporal patterns and drivers of fish-mediated ecosystem functions, such as biomass production, nutrient cycling, and piscivory, across six European Large Marine Ecosystems over a 40-year period. The $393,925 award to the University of North Carolina at Wilmington will integrate fish monitoring data, bioenergetics modeling, and statistical inference to map the spatiotemporal...

This $128,483 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Sea Grant Support program (CFDA 11.417) will fund a two-year project at the University of California San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The project aims to investigate how commercial fishing effort diversifies across fisheries in the U.S. Pacific and North Pacific regions in response to climate change. The research will focus on understanding diversification along...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award is funded through the Cooperative Institute (Inter-Agency Funded Activities) program (CFDA 11.405) administered by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The $2,205,054 award, effective July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2027, supports several research initiatives at the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS). The key products and services to be delivered under this award include: 1) Improving...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award is provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Science, Observation, Monitoring, and Technology (RESTORE Science) program (CFDA 11.451). The award totaling $6,921,319 will fund the "Optimization and Expansion of Gulf-Wide Video Survey Efforts to Better Characterize Temporal and Spatial Variability in Reef Fish Assemblages in Response to Drivers at Multiple Scales: The G-FISHER...