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Overview
The NOAA RESTORE Science Program supports research, observation, and monitoring in the Gulf of Mexico to address regional science and management needs. The Science Program will periodically announce federal funding opportunities (FFOs) to which eligible applicants can apply and compete for funding.
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Funding Mechanisms
The NOAA RESTORE Science Program will generally use competitive, peer-review approaches when selecting projects for funding and rely most often on grants and/or cooperative agreements to make awards. The Program may also use other means, including contracts, to ensure the flexibility needed to do the work required and involve appropriate partners.
Open Opportunities
FFO-2025 – Long-Terms Trends in the Gulf of Mexico Ecosystem is now open.
This federal funding opportunity invites proposals that plan to identify, track, understand, or predict trends and variability in the Gulf of Mexico’s natural resources and the abiotic and biotic factors driving those trends. Applicants are required to form a team of researchers, resource managers, and other interested parties focused on the natural resource(s) they intend to investigate.
Future Opportunities
The long-term priorities captured in the science plan will serve as the basis for future funding opportunities from the Program. The Program will select the priorities to be addressed in each funding opportunity based on several factors including stakeholder input on critical regional science and management needs, the topics being addressed by other science initiatives, new research results, gaps in our scientific knowledge, and the extent to which addressing a priority will advance the mission of the program.
Recent Opportunities
The Gulf Ecosystem Initiatives 2024 Call for Proposals was released November 2023. The deadline for submitting a proposal has passed. Awards will be announced in spring of 2024.
The Science Program’s funding competition to support actionable science was released in the summer of 2022. The deadline for submitting a full proposal has passed, and the proposal review process has begun. The Science Program announced the awards from this competition in the fall of 2023.
The Gulf Ecosystem Initiative’s 2023 Call for Proposals was released in November 2022. The deadline for submitting a proposal has passed, and the proposal review process has begun. Awards were announced in spring of 2023.
The Program released its fourth federal funding opportunity (FFO-2021) on August 11, 2020 (overview and full announcement). The deadline for submitting a full proposal was December 15, 2020. The Program announced the awards from this competition on September 14, 2021.
The Program released its third federal funding opportunity (FFO-2019) on June 5, 2018 (overview and full announcement). The Program announced the awards from this competition on October 2, 2019 and April 7, 2020.
The Program released its second federal funding opportunity (FFO-2017) on June 1, 2016 (overview and full announcement). The Program announced the awards from this competition on July 10, 2017.
The Program’s first federal funding opportunity (FFO-2015) closed on March 17, 2015 (overview and full announcement). The Program announced the awards from this competition on September 1, 2015.