Applicants are invited to apply for the Lake Champlain Sea Grant (LCSG) to help Lake Champlain basin communities act to enable long-term ecosystem health and sustainable economic development.
Donor Name: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
States: New York, Vermont
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 02/17/2023
Size of the Grant: $100,000
Grant Duration: 24 months
Details:
The Lake Champlain Sea Grant (LCSG) requests proposals for research in the Lake Champlain basin in the areas of:
- Environmental literacy and workforce development
- Healthy coastal ecosystems
- Sustainable fisheries and aquaculture
- Resilient communities and economies
LCSG develops and shares science-based knowledge to benefit the environment and economies of the Lake Champlain basin. LCSG envisions a future of long-term ecosystem health and sustainable economic development in Lake Champlain basin communities.
LCSG is a collaborative effort between the University of Vermont and the State University of New York (SUNY) Plattsburgh. LCSG is supported by the U.S. Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Sea Grant College Program.
Goals
Proposals must support one or more of the LCSG Strategic Plan (2024–2028) goals listed below.
- Environmental Literacy and Workforce Development
- A diverse and environmentally literate public participates in lifelong formal, non-formal, and informal learning opportunities and implements innovative solutions to improve community well-being in the face of a changing Lake Champlain basin.
- A diverse, skilled, and environmentally literate workforce is engaged and able to build prosperous lives and livelihoods in a changing world through traditional and innovative careers.
- Healthy Coastal Ecosystems
- Habitat, ecosystems, and the services they provide are protected and/or restored in the Lake Champlain basin.
- Land, water, and living resources are managed by applying sound science, tools, and services to sustain resilient ecosystems in the Lake Champlain basin.
- Sustainable Fisheries and Aquaculture
- Domestic fisheries, aquaculture, aquaponics, and other living freshwater resources supply food, jobs, economic and cultural benefits in the Lake Champlain basin.
- Natural resources are sustainably managed to support coastal communities and working waterfronts, including industrial, recreational, subsistence fisheries, aquaculture, and aquaponics in the Lake Champlain
- Resilient Communities and Economies
- Lake Champlain basin communities and economies have resilient capability and the resources to prepare for and adapt to changing environmental conditions, climate change, extreme weather, coastal hazards, economic disruptions, and other threats to community health and well-being.
- Aquatic resources are sustained and protected to meet emerging needs of the communities, economies, and ecosystems of the Lake Champlain basin.
Funding Information
Researchers may request up to $100,000 in federal Sea Grant funds for one-year projects or $200,000 for two-year projects to cover direct and indirect costs. Federal support must be matched with non-federal funds at the rate of $1 in non-federal matching funds for every $2 requested of federal Sea Grant funds (i.e., a 50% match). They expect to allocate approximately $700,000 in federal Sea Grant funds to support research projects selected from this research competition.
Project Period
Anticipated project duration: 12-24 months.
Criteria
The National Sea Grant College Program champions diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) by recruiting, retaining, and preparing a diverse workforce and proactively engaging and serving the diverse populations of coastal communities. Sea Grant is committed to building inclusive research, extension, communication, and education programs that serve people with unique backgrounds, circumstances, needs, perspectives, and ways of thinking. They encourage applicants of all ages, races, ethnicities, national origins, colors, gender identities, sexual orientations, disabilities, cultures, religions, citizenship types, marital statuses, educational levels, job classifications, veteran status types, and income and socioeconomic status types to apply for this competitive research opportunity.
PIs must be from an institution of higher education, government agency, non-profit organization, or private for profit company. Researchers from outside the Lake Champlain basin are eligible to submit a proposal, but the research being proposed must be conducted, at least in part, in the Lake Champlain basin. Both single investigators and multiple investigator research teams from different institutions are encouraged to apply. LCSG encourages participation from both the natural science and social science research communities and applications from early career researchers.
Institutions of higher education, state and local government agencies, non-governmental organizations, and businesses that conduct research in the Lake Champlain basin in New York and Vermont are eligible to respond to this request.
For more information, visit Lake Champlain Sea Grant Research Competition.
