Translating Coastal Research into Application

The US Coastal Research Program (USCRP) National Sea Grant Office (NSGO) announced a funding opportunity to move USCRP research and development findings toward application through service delivery and decision support for coastal community decision-makers, planners, and others coastal stakeholders. The partnership encourages academic researchers to partner with Sea Grant Programs to translate fundamental science problems and research to outcomes beneficial to coastal community resilience. The projects should integrate research, its application, and community engagement in three thematic program areas of (1) long-term coastal evolution, (2) extreme storms, and (3) human and ecosystem health. Developing and delivering actionable scientific information to users on the related themes requires integration of a broad range of stakeholder needs and coastal science. We encourage you to review the webinar powerpoint slides about this NOFO

There are two tiers of projects:
Tier 1: $150,000 over two years
Tier 2: $500,000 for over four year for multi-partner efforts

All proposals are required to engage with Sea Grant personnel as collaborators. To help Maryland Sea Grant (MDSG) facilitate collaboration and coordinate its efforts in response to this NOFO, those interested in applying need to complete this collaboration form as soon as possible and no later than 12:00 PM EST on Friday, June 10^th, 2022. Due to the short timeline and high interest, MDSG cannot consider requests for collaborations outside of submissions via the collaboration form by the specified deadline. The Letter of Intent to be submitted by Maryland Sea Grant must also be to our office by COB Friday June 10^th, 2022.

In order to develop meaningful collaboration and proposals, MDSG anticipates that only a small number of proposed ideas will move forward to the LOI and full proposal stage. For more information please see our announcement.