New York Sea Grant (NYSG) is pleased to announce its Biennial Research Call for 2024-2025.
Donor Name: New York Sea Grant
State: New York
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 01/17/2023
Size of the Grant: $120,000
Grant Duration: 2 years
Details:
The main goal of New York Sea Grant’s (NYSG) research program is to generate and provide valid scientific information and tools that will further the sustainable development, use, protection, conservation, and management of their coastal resources. The research must be driven by stakeholder-identified research needs and provide enhanced opportunities for NYSG to ‘make a difference’ and positively impact important coastal issues. Pre-proposals are invited specifically addressing portions of NYSG’s Strategic Plan for 2024-2027.
Focus Area
- Focus Area A. Healthy Coastal Ecosystems
- NYSG Goal A1: Coastal habitats, ecosystems, and the services they provide are protected, enhanced, and/or restored.
- NYSG Goal A2: Diverse communities, agencies, and individuals apply science, tools, and services to manage land, water, and living resources in order to protect, enhance, and restore coastal habitats, ecosystems, and the services they provide.
- Focus Area B. Sustainable Fisheries and Aquaculture
- NYSG GOAL B1: Domestic fisheries, aquaculture, and other coastal and freshwater natural resources supply food, jobs, and economic and cultural benefits.
- NYSG GOAL B2: Natural resources are sustainably managed to support economically viable fishing communities and industries, including commercial, recreational, subsistence fisheries, and aquaculture.
- Focus Area C. Resilient Coastal Communities and Economies
- NYSG GOAL C1: The recreation, tourism, water-dependent business, and maritime history industries are resilient to changing environmental conditions, extreme events, coastal hazards, and economic disruptions, while also protective of coastal ecosystems.
- NYSG GOAL C2: Coastal communities (e.g., local governments, resource managers(including property owners), and inhabitants) have the capability and research-based resources to prepare for and adapt to extreme and chronic weather and coastal hazards, climate change, economic disruptions, and other challenges to community health and wellbeing.
- NYSG GOAL C3: Water resources are enhanced, sustained, and protected to meet existing and emerging needs of the communities and economies that depend on them.
- Focus Area D. Environmental Literacy & Workforce Development
- NYSG GOAL D1: A diverse, environmentally literate public participates in a continuum of lifelong formal and non-formal learning opportunities
- NYSG GOAL D2: A resilient, diverse, and skilled workforce is engaged and enabled to address critical local, regional, and national needs through traditional and innovative careers.
Funding Information
- The total budget request (direct + indirect costs) for a project may not exceed $120,000 per year
- Duration of Proposed Work: Funding made available under this Call will cover two years (2/1/2024 – 1/31/2026)
Eligibility Criteria
- Faculty at New York academic institutions are the main targets and recipients of NYSG’s research funds. Nevertheless, proposals from other groups may be accepted and approved for funding. Eligible groups are listed below in order of preference for funding under this Call:
- Researchers at universities and colleges.
- Researchers at other not-for-profit research institutions.
- Researchers who are personnel of state or local agencies, or of not-for-profit organizations.
- Researchers at for-profit institutions or companies.
For more information, visit New York Sea Grant.
