OpportunityTitle: National Coordination of Coral Disease Response Effort
AdditionalInformationOnEligibility: The following entities are eligible to submit to this opportunity:&#160;     Sea Grant College Programs, Sea Grant Institutional Programs, and Sea Grant Coherent Area Programs. For the remainder of this document, these entities are collectively referred to as &#8220;Sea Grant Programs.&#8221;    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. We encourage Sea Grant program applications to reflect diverse participation with regards to age, race, ethnicities, national origins, gender identities, sexual orientations, disabilities, cultures, religions, citizenship types, marital statuses, education levels, job classifications, veteran status types, income, and socioeconomic status.
Description: The National Sea Grant College Program was enacted by the U.S. Congress in 1966 (amended in 2020, Public Law 116-221) to support leveraged federal and state partnerships that harness the intellectual capacity of the nation&#8217;s universities and research institutions to solve problems and generate opportunities in coastal communities. Applications to this opportunity should propose projects that do the following: Establish or continue a position to coordinate an inter-jurisdictional response to the recent outbreak of Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease (SCTLD) in the U.S. South Atlantic and Caribbean; and Conduct collaborative activities, such as workshops, related to addressing SCTLD, as funding allows. All projects must take place within the United States or territories or their respective waterways. This document sets out requirements for submitting to NOAA-OAR-SG-2024-25570.
GrantorContactEmailDescription: Business
GrantorContactText: The National Sea Grant Office mailing address is: &lt;br/&gt;NOAA Sea Grant &lt;br/&gt;1315 East-West Highway&#160; &lt;br/&gt;Silver Spring, MD 20910 &lt;br/&gt; &lt;br/&gt;sg.grants@noaa.gov