OpportunityTitle: PC-23-03B: Facilitating Resilience and Adaptation in Commercial Fisheries in Response to Offshore Renewable Energy Development and Climate Change
AdditionalInformationOnEligibility: This Program Announcement describes the specific project that may be awarded as a cooperative agreement between the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), and BOEM. Any award is premised on receipt of an acceptable proposal.&#160;This is not an open solicitation for proposals. This announcement is specifically to announce intent to undertake the following project:Facilitating Resilience and Adaptation in Commercial Fisheries in Response to Offshore Renewable Energy Development and Climate ChangeOpen to:The award will be a cooperative agreement (see Eligibility Information below). This project is being proposed as a Cooperative Agreement between UCSB and BOEM under the umbrella of the Californian Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU). Both BOEM and UCSB are member partners. This umbrella limits overhead costs for UCSB to 17.5%. A CESU project is a collaborative effort of agency and partner scientists initiated upon agency or partner identification of a need to address an area of concern that falls under the Californian CESU mission statement at http://ucanr.org/sites/CCESU/files/70742.pdf. This involves substantial involvement by BOEM scientists in various aspects of study development and/or study conduct.Eligibility InformationResearch projects are required to have a staff member of the applying organization as the Principal Investigator (PI). Cooperative research between interested organizations, i.e., state agencies, public universities, and non-profits in affected states, is always encouraged.Cost Share/Match: Contributions of matching funds towards these efforts, either as cash or in&#173; kind contributions (such as salary, equipment, etc., or a combination of both) is very strongly encouraged. Match cannot include value associated with collection costs for samples previously collected. Match value for instrumentation and other equipment should be adjusted to the period of use within the project relative to the full life cycle for the item. Written documentation for the assessed match for ship time (if applicable) shall provide a fair assessment of costs relevant to the project. Matching dollars cannot be from other Federal funding sources. Further information can be located at 2 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 200.306.All questions regarding this project, including eligibility, should be directed only to the &quot;Program Announcement and Cooperative Agreement Questions&quot; point-of-contact listed in Section G.
Description: The purpose of this study is to understand and predict how potential impacts from offshore energy development and climate change may interact to affect commercial fisheries, and to develop mitigation strategies that increase either the adaptive capacity or the resilience of affected stakeholders to foreseeable changes.The States of California, Oregon, and Washington, Tribal governments, local government agencies, and the public will be the primary beneficiaries of this federal assistance agreement. Scientists and managers recognize that shifting climate regimes are affecting and will continue to affect marine ecosystems and the fisheries and communities that depend on them. To respond appropriately to these changing conditions, many agencies on the West Coast have developed policies that outline strategies to adapt to and increase resilience of coastal communities to these changes. These policies are general in nature and lack specific recommendations to assist stakeholders in anticipating and mitigating negative consequences. Furthermore, very little guidance exists to manage multiple stressors, where potential climate change impacts may interact with other external factors. Thus, State, Tribal, and local governments that have climate change strategies in place will considerably benefit from the products generated by this study because place-specific, actionable alternatives will be developed for managers to consider. State and local agencies will also considerably enhance their ability to evaluate future energy projects in their own waters and as part of Coastal Zone Management Act consistency certifications. The ultimate outcome will be an increased capacity to manage their trust resources wisely. Finally, members of the public that have broad interests in understanding potential consequences of climate change will also benefit.The work under this Agreement complies with Executive Order 13990 &#8220;Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science to Tackle the Climate Crisis&#8221; (January 25, 2021) which establishes a policy that highlights the need to use science to bolster resilience to the impacts of climate change, and Executive Order 14008, &#8220;Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad&#8221; (January 27, 2021), which establishes a policy that includes a government-wide approach to increase resilience to the impacts of climate change and to deploy clean energy technologies and infrastructure.This Award implements the OCS Lands Act mandate to conduct environmental studies to predict impacts on the human, marine, and coastal environments from OCS resource activities (43 U.S.C. &#167; 1346 (b)).
GrantorContactEmailDescription: dominique.bruce-morton@bsee.gov
GrantorContactText: Dominique Bruce-Morton&lt;br/&gt;dominique.bruce-morton@bsee.gov
CloseDateExplanation: Electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 5:00 p.m., ET, on the listed application due date.