Project Grant 98293200

The Environmental Protection Agency Region 2 awarded a $2,168,851 Project Grant to the Research Foundation of the State University of New York under the National Estuary Program (CFDA 66.456). The grant will support the Peconic Estuary Partnership's work restoring and protecting water quality and habitat in eastern Long Island through September 2025. Specifically, the funding will support staff carrying out environmental projects included in the Peconic Estuary Partnership's Comprehensive...

EPA Region 2 awarded the Research Foundation for the State University of New York (operating as Stony Brook University) $1,694,600 on October 1, 2025, under the National Estuary Program (CFDA 66.456) to support implementation of the Peconic Estuary Partnership's 2020 Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan. The recipient will continue and expand projects addressing bulkhead removal assessments, shoreline protection, stormwater management, wetland restoration, stormwater discharge...

This $388,362 Project Grant awarded by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 4 under the Geographic Programs - South Florida Geographic Initiatives Program (CFDA 66.484) will fund the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS) to characterize nutrient and microbial water quality in the nearshore "halo zone" of the Florida Keys and its connections to the broader regional water quality of the reef tract. Key activities include...

This $899,961 Project Grant awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (CFDA 11.427 Fisheries Development and Utilization Research and Development Grants and Cooperative Agreements Program) will support a research project at Stony Brook University to address knowledge gaps related to factors that can impact disease development and mortality in a major local fishery in the Northeast region. The project aims to provide information on the distribution of the parasite, as well as...

This Cooperative Agreement award of $835,829 from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Sea Grant Support program (CFDA 11.417) is aimed at identifying beneficial bacteria that facilitate healthy lobster egg development and testing them against pathogens that cause mortality or morbidity in lobster embryos. The key objectives are to characterize the microbiome of lobster eggs, examine how microbiome shifts relate to egg mortality, and determine which microbes act...

This $148,554 Project Grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 1 supports the University of Connecticut in measuring rates of nitrate removal and characterizing stream geomorphology in tributaries discharging to eight Long Island Sound embayments. The University will conduct stream nitrate tracer experiments under three discharge conditions and concurrent stream surveys and sampling to characterize streambed sediment and channel geomorphology. It will also evaluate the...

Federal Grant Award Summary The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (Stony Brook University) received a $307,468 Project Grant award from the Institute of Food Production and Sustainability under the Grants for Agricultural Research, Special Research Grants program (CFDA 10.200), effective September 1, 2025 through August 31, 2027. The award supports research to identify and develop disease-resistant bay scallop stocks for use in regional aquaculture and stock enhancement...

The Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture awarded the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science $650,000 on March 1, 2026, under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program to investigate the microbial causes of sudden die-off events in oyster hatcheries. The project will examine which bacteria and viruses are present in young oysters before die-offs occur, which microorganisms are associated with batch survival or mortality, how these...

Federal Grant Award Summary The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Geographic Programs – Long Island Sound Program (CFDA 66.437) awarded the Interstate Environmental Commission (IEC) $2,038,690 in Project Grant funding, effective October 1, 2025 through December 31, 2027, to implement water quality monitoring and pathogen management activities supporting the Long Island Sound Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan. The award funds a comprehensive monitoring program including...

This Project Grant from the Environmental Protection Agency Region 4 provides $601,022 to Biscayne Bay Waterkeeper, Inc. to support their FY20 South Florida Geographic Initiatives Program. The program will evaluate sources of nutrients and enterococci in Biscayne Bay, Florida from March 2021 through February 2024. The funding supports research, investigations, experiments, training, demonstrations, surveys, and studies relating to water quality issues as part of the EPA's Section 104(b)(3) of...