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2020 Knauss Fellowships Awards and Schedules
Award Total: $61,500-$71,500
- $47,500 for your salary/stipend
- Up to $14,000 to cover fringe benefits, placement week costs, and other allowable expenses (health insurance, relocation, academic tuition, and academic- and fellowship-related travel, conference, and workshop expenses)
- Up to $10,000 for host office-related travel (dependent on host office selection)
Schedule
| December 2018 | NOAA releases 2020 Federal Funding Opportunity and Maryland Sea Grant opens the Knauss Fellowship application process |
| Dec. 2018 - Jan. 2019 |
Draft applications in eSeaGrant; Candidate interviews at Maryland Sea Grant |
| 22 February 2019 at 5 PM | Fellowship applications submitted to Maryland Sea Grant by official deadline |
| March 2019 | Maryland Sea Grant panel selects and submits up to six finalist application packets to National Sea Grant program for the national competition |
| June 2019 | Selection process and subsequent notification to Sea Grant programs of selected finalists completed. |
| October 2019 | Meet with Maryland Sea Grant to discuss upcoming fellowship before placement week |
| November 2019 | Placement week in Washington, D.C. |
| January 2020 | Meet with Maryland Sea Grant to complete paperwork |
| 15 January 2020 | Submit photo and biographical sketch to Maryland Sea Grant |
| January 2020 | Submit all required Human Resources paperwork to Maryland Sea Grant |
| 1 February 2020 | Fellowship starts |
| March 2020 | Knauss welcome reception and dinner on Capitol Hill |
| 31 January 2021 | Fellowship ends; final report due to Maryland Sea Grant and NOAA |
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News and Blogs
Featured Fellow
Leone Yisrael is a cephalopod-loving scuba diver, cook, and loves to try new activities. She conducts genetic analysis and fieldwork at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center through the Coastal Disease Ecology Lab.
Featured Research Project
Exploring the Use of Benthic Microbial Fuel Cells to Remove Sulfide While Harvesting Energy from Oyster Aquaculture Biodeposits
Oyster aquaculture is a rapidly growing industry in Maryland’s Chesapeake waters which stimulates economic activity and may provide a host of ecosystem benefits. A potential concern associated with the intensification of the oyster aquaculture is the local production and accumulation of oyster biodeposits, which can lead to a porewater sulfide accumulation and declining bioturbation, symptoms of declining ecosystem function. Sulfide is naturally removed from the seafloor by the interactions between bioturbating infauna and sulfide oxidizing bacteria.
Chesapeake Quarterly Magazine
A Growing Industry: Advancing Oyster Aquaculture in Maryland
