Project Grant NA17NOS4290020

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has awarded a $2,063,726 Cooperative Agreement under the Office for Coastal Management (CFDA 11.473) program to the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) for the restoration of 11.5 acres of oyster reef along Ayres Point in the Mesquite Bay complex. This project will increase climate resilience of coastal communities within the surrounding coastal counties through habitat restoration planning, engineering and design,...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $1,271,506 Cooperative Agreement under the CFDA 11.473 Office for Coastal Management program to the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP). This funding will enable NJDEP to expand its successful Atlantic City Shell Recycling and Oyster Reef Restoration program within the Mullica River-Great Bay Estuary. Specifically, the project will increase shell material collection and expand restoration efforts to create...

This $358,499 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), will fund research to understand the impact of warming on the structure and function of marine communities in the Northwest Atlantic Shelf region, including the Gulf of Maine and Mid-Atlantic Bight. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, through its Office of Sponsored Research, will characterize the composition and features of plankton and fish...

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...

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...

This Cooperative Agreement award, granted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Habitat Conservation Federal Grant Program (CFDA 11.463), provides $8,000,000 to the City of Jacksonville, North Carolina to restore critical habitat and alleviate flooding within the New River watershed. The key activities to be carried out include wetland restoration, culvert replacement, living shoreline creation, and the outplanting of 1 million oysters. This project builds...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) totaling $103,519 will support collaborative research by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution from August 2022 to July 2025 to reconstruct bottom water temperatures on the Middle Atlantic continental shelf over the past 5,000 years using living and fossil shells of Atlantic surfclams and ocean quahogs. The grant aims to develop spatial-temporal reconstructions of bottom water temperatures to further...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Sea Grant Support (CFDA 11.417) program provides $117,072 to the University of Maine System to conduct research focused on redefining biological reference points in a dynamic environment. The project aims to characterize current and alternative approaches to defining reference points in the context of ecosystem change, synthesize findings, challenges, and best practices, and assess the...

This cooperative agreement from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Sea Grant Support program ($392,764) supports ecosystem modeling and analysis work from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2025 at Stony Brook University. The university will improve tools for ecosystem-based fisheries management focusing on incorporating climate change impacts on species abundances. Researchers will integrate food web modeling packages to enable computation of ecosystem indicators and reference...

The University of Georgia Research Foundation received a $2,828,219 Cooperative Agreement award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Habitat Conservation Federal Grant Program (CFDA 11.463) to restore oyster reefs and salt marshes around the Gullah Geechee community of Hog Hammock on Sapelo Island, Georgia. The project will use natural and nature-based features to both restore essential fish habitat and increase community flood protection, with engagement...