Project Grant SGH10022GR0052

This Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Sea Grant Support program (CFDA 11.417) will provide $500,000 from August 1, 2023 to July 31, 2025 to The Fishing Partnership Health Plan Corporation. The project will establish a regional, collaborative training framework to provide young fishermen in New England with vocational training as they enter the fishing industry, develop into competent deckhands, and...

This National Science Foundation IRES: Global Problem Solvers in Tropical Sustainable Living (CFDA 47.079) project grant, awarded to the University of Cincinnati in the amount of $438,918 on January 1, 2025, aims to facilitate the development of a diverse U.S. STEM workforce capable of addressing complex engineering challenges related to sustainable living in tropical regions. The project will engage 24 U.S. students in a transformative experience involving semester-long virtual research...

This Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Sea Grant Support program (CFDA 11.417), will train at least 100 climate-ready workers, including technicians, scientists, and engineers, to address water resource challenges in the Great Lakes region by 2028. The $5,122,819 award to The Ohio State University aims to build a diverse, digitally fluent workforce capable of providing climate-resilient water system services to communities...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $495,376 will support the University of Hawaii at Manoa in transforming its marine biology graduate program to incorporate place-based pedagogies. Funded under the NSF's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), this three-year award beginning October 1, 2022 aims to establish a community-embedded science approach. Graduate students will undertake a two-week intensive immersing them in relationship building, service learning, and cultural education...

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 National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) Project Grant in the amount of $376,582 awarded to Florida International University (FIU) will support a collaborative international research effort titled "WHALEADAPT: Adaptation of Vulnerable Subsistence-Based North Atlantic Communities to Marine Mammal Redistribution under Climate Change." The project aims to investigate the past, present, and future distribution and abundance of North Atlantic toothed...

This $250,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Office of International Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.079) supports the development of a Global Center on Climate Change and Clean Energy with Southeast Asia as a living lab. The project, led by the University of Illinois, assembles a team of U.S. and Southeast Asian researchers to assess climate risks, evaluate impacts, and design adaptation and mitigation strategies to build resilience for vulnerable coastal...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Fisheries Development and Utilization Research and Development Grants and Cooperative Agreements Program (CFDA 11.427) provides $128,524.00 to the Cape Cod Commercial Fishermen's Alliance, Inc. to develop and deliver a "Fishing 101" introductory course for 15 students and a series of 7 advanced workshops for 30 fishermen. The training will cover topics such as local fisheries,...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary The University of Georgia Research Foundation received a $110,446 Cooperative Agreement from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Sea Grant Support program (CFDA 11.417), effective September 1, 2025 through August 31, 2026. This award supports an international technology transfer initiative designed to enhance oyster aquaculture productivity in the southeastern United States. The project will facilitate a study tour to New...

This $239,429 Project Grant award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Fisheries Development and Utilization Research and Development Grants and Cooperative Agreements Program (CFDA 11.427) aims to expand marketing networks and sales of fresh, locally caught pelagic fish species in Hawaii. The project involves a collaboration between a wholesale distributor of locally caught pelagic fish, college culinary arts chefs, and high school culinary arts instructors....