Full proposals to the NOAA RESTORE Science Program’s current competition on planning for actionable science are due by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on December 15, 2020, which is in less than four weeks. Project teams are advised to submit full proposals via Grants.gov well in advance of the deadline as a precaution against unanticipated … Continue reading
Please mark your calendars for The Gulf of Mexico Conference (GoMCon) “preview” on April 14th, 2021! GoMCon combines the annual Gulf of Mexico Alliance (GOMA) All Hands Meeting, the annual Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill and Ecosystems Science (GoMOSES) Conference, and the triannual State of the Gulf Summit. The virtual GoMCon preview emphasizes the intersection … Continue reading
On Friday, November 20, the Science Program hosted the first webinar in a series entitled How to Co-Produce that explored how to advance partnerships among researchers and resource managers through the use of co-production practices. This webinar focused on the important phases of scoping and designing a project that will produce actionable science. If you … Continue reading
Hurricane Michael It has been a record-breaking hurricane season thus far, with several storms striking the U.S. Gulf coast, and more than one getting stronger as the storm moved northward and made landfall. Dr. Brian Dzwonkowski of the University of South Alabama and Dauphin Island Sea Lab has identified a sequence of events that led … Continue reading
The deadline for submitting a letter of intent to the NOAA RESTORE Science Program’s planning for actionable science funding competition is now only a week away. This competition will provide natural resource managers, researchers, and other stakeholders with funding to plan a research project that informs a specific management decision impacting natural resources in the … Continue reading
The NOAA RESTORE Science Program’s funding competition for planning actionable science is now open. This competition will provide natural resource managers, researchers, and other stakeholders with funding to plan a research project that informs a specific management decision impacting natural resources in the Gulf of Mexico. The Science Program is making approximately $2.5 million available … Continue reading
Beaches are essential to the tourism economy of Southwest Florida. Sea level rise and increased storminess threaten their existence. Southwest Florida contains the largest area of tidally influenced public lands in the Gulf of Mexico and the fastest growing urban landscape in Florida. Both the human and naturally-occurring components of the ecosystem are under increasing … Continue reading
The NOAA RESTORE Science Program plans to release its next funding opportunity in August 2020. This competition will provide natural resource managers, researchers, and other stakeholders with funding to plan a research project that informs a specific management decision impacting natural resources in the Gulf of Mexico. All natural resources and decisions associated with them are … Continue reading
Through the summer and fall of 2020, project teams who received funding from the NOAA RESTORE Science Program in 2017 presented their results as a OneNOAA Science Seminar Series, entitled Actionable Science in the Gulf of Mexico. A total of fifteen research teams were awarded $16.7 million to support work on living coastal and marine … Continue reading
Did you know the brown seaweed that washes up at the beach is a biologically important habitat? With support from the NOAA RESTORE Science Program, a team led by Dr. Frank Hernandez is searching for this seaweed, also known as sargassum, in the Gulf of Mexico and gaining a better understanding of its importance to … Continue reading