California Sea Grant is now soliciting applications for one-year research projects by early-career faculty. Proposals, up to $60,000, will support the research of a new faculty member employed at a California-based university to address topics aligned with California Sea Grant’s strategic plan and state priorities. This year additional emphasis will be on proposals that respond and target objectives specific to our Resilient Coastal Communities and Economies and Sustainable Fisheries and Aquaculture focus areas. Please read the full Request for Proposals for details and application instructions. Read More
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Assistance Fact Sheet and Webinar Recording: Aquaculture Farm Financial Management During the Pandemic
NOAA Sea Grant and the National Aquaculture Association collaborated to sponsor a 40-minute webinar by Dr. Carole Engle, Aquatic$, LLC, to share her experience and guidance as to how aquaculture farms and businesses can manage their finances to survive an unanticipated market collapse. Dr. Engle also shared basic financial analytics to determine whether taking on new or additional debt in the form of loans is a wise decision.
A recording of the April 3rd webinar entitled Aquaculture Farm Financial Management During the Pandemic is now posted for viewing or download. Click here.
Webinar participants received an economic assistance fact sheet that included links to the Southern Regional Aquaculture Center publications that describe the analytical tools Dr. Engle reviewed. The Economic Assistance Fact Sheet can be viewed by selecting the “Continue Reading” link.
Funding Available for Sustainable American Aquaculture through Foundation for Food and Agriculture
Up to $5M in new research funding will be awarded this year by the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR) through its Sustainable American Aquaculture program. The program is intended to stimulate and advance innovative research in sustainable fish and shellfish production, provide economic opportunities to U.S. farmers, and increase the supply of domestically-produced, nutritious foods to meet growing consumer demand. The FFAR recognizes the major need to understand the biological and technological barriers, and market potential for a diverse range of aquatic species. The funding opportunity takes action to foster the understanding and minimizing of potential environmental impacts of aquaculture production that will be key to public acceptance of farmed fish and shellfish products, and long-term industry success.
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Upcoming Funding Opportunity -Macroalgae Cultivation
The Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA–E) intends to issue a new Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) in November, 2016, for the development of cultivation technologies benefiting the production of macroalgal-biomass (seaweeds) in the ocean. These technologies are expected to be deployed and support cultivation of macroalgal-biomass for the production of commodity fuels and chemicals. The primary challenge is to dramatically reduce capital and operating cost of macroalgae cultivation, while significantly increasing the range of deployment by expanding into off-shore environments.
The Teaming Partner List is being compiled to facilitate the formation of new project teams. ARPA-E intends to make the Teaming Partner List available on ARPA–E eXCHANGE (http://ARPA–E-foa.energy.gov), ARPA–E’s online application portal, in September 2016. Once posted, the Teaming Partner List will be updated periodically, until the close of the Full Application period, to reflect new Teaming Partners who have provided their information.
Read more below from the ARPA announcement.
2017 Saltonstall-Kennedy Grant Town Hall Webinar – August 30th
NOAA is hosting a new webinar to share more information about this year’s Saltonstall-Kennedy Grant process. This webinar will discuss the grant application process, including the mandatory pre-proposal process in advance of a full proposal submission.
Date and Time: Tuesday, August 30, 2016 3:00 pm EDT
Call-in and webinar details, along with more information about the SK Grant, can be found at NOAA’s Website.
2017 Saltonstall-Kennedy Grant Competition Webinar – August 17th
The 2017 Saltonstall-Kennedy (SK) Grant Competition is here, and NOAA is hosting a webinar to prepare applicants to get through the application process.
Approximately $10 million will be available to support fisheries projects in this grant competition. The proposal process is open on Grants.gov on July 22, 2016, and will close on December 9, 2016. New for this year is the requirement to submit a pre-proposal in advance of a full proposal submission. The pre-proposal process is intended to provide an indication to potential applicants of the technical merit and the relevancy of the proposed project to the SK program before preparing a full proposal.
Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR) Opens Round 1 Funding
The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, hosted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), is now offering competitive grants to qualified small businesses. This program aims to support innovation that tackles scientific problems and local opportunities that can lead to improving communities. Aquaculture projects are encouraged to apply, especially concepts that look at issues such as reproductive efficiency and health management, among others.
Phase 1 includes grants up to $100,000 for a duration of 8 months, and will be awarded to businesses in order to create conceptual designs at a small scale. Once this proof-of-concept has been created, SBIR will open Phase 2, which will award larger grants to winning concepts in order to implement the ideas. Since 1983, 200 grants have been awarded through the program. The due date to apply is October 6, 2016.
Read more about what Aquaculture projects are encouraged.
Read the full grant summary at Grants.gov.
Apply here with the National Institute of Food and Agriculture.
NOAA Announces $3M in Sea Grant Aquaculture Research Program Funds for FY2016
Depending on the availability of funds, NOAA Sea Grant expects to have up to $3M available for a national competition to fund new FY 2016 aquaculture research projects. This is part of the overall plan to support the development of environmentally and economically sustainable ocean, coastal, or Great Lakes aquaculture.
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