Marine Education and Training Mini Grant Program (DOC)

• Date: 03 December 2020
• Published date: 03 December 2020
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/fgc.31430

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Grants alert (cont.)

Americans made their ultimate sacrice. Priorities

include fostering relationships with conservation

organizations advocating for balanced stewardship

and use of public lands and expanding lines of

communication with governors, state natural resources

offices, sh and wildlife offices, water authorities, county

commissioners, tribes and local communities.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# P21AS00206

Forest Service Cross-Boundary Wildre Hazard

Mitigation (USDA)

Scope: The Agriculture Department’s Forest Service

seeks applications for the Forest Service Cross-

Boundary Wildre Hazard Mitigation announcement to

reduce hazardous fuel conditions on non-federal land

and benet National Forest System lands.

Deadline: Jan. 15, 2021.

Funds: $1.5 million total for up to 10 awards.

Eligibility: National forests, (applying on behalf of adjacent

non-federal landowners), state forestry agencies, local

governments, and Native American tribes, nonprot

organizations, and private landowners and associations.

Areas: USDA said grants should increase the probability

a re management response will meet the following

land management and protection objectives: protect

communities (and associated lives, property and public

infrastructure) which are at the highest risk from damaging

wildre; and protect critical resource and economic values

and restore and maintain landscapes to accommodate

re, within the context of re regime parameters, while

meeting land management plan objectives.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# USDA-FS-2021-CB

Forest Service Wildre Risk Reduction / Wildre

Response (USDA)

Scope: The Agriculture Department’s Forest Service seeks

applications for the Forest Service Wildre Risk Reduction/

Wildre Response announcement to identify the reduction

of wildre risk and/or improvement of wildre response.

Deadline: Jan. 15, 2021.

Funds: $2.5 million total for up to 25 awards ranging

$25,000 to $150,000.

Eligibility: Colleges and universities; nonprot

organizations; state, local, special district and Native

American tribal governments; and independent school

districts, among others.

Areas: USDA said Wildre Risk Reduction grants may

focus on expanding the use of prescribed re as an integral

tool to meet management objectives in the Northeast and

maintaining and increasing, where possible, the extent

of re-dependent ecosystems and expand the use of

re as a disturbance process. Wildre Response grants

may focus on improving the organizational efficiency

and effectiveness of the wildland re community and

increasing the local response capacity for initial attack of

wildres. See the announcement for complete details.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# USDA-FS-2021-WRR-WR

Sea Grant Fellowships-Dynamics and economics

(DOC)

Scope: The Commerce Department’s National Oceanic

and Atmospheric Administration seeks applications for

the FY2021 National Marine Fisheries Service Sea Grant

Fellowship in Population and Ecosystem Dynamics and

Marine Resource Economics announcement to support a

Ph.D. graduate fellowship in two specic areas: population

and ecosystem dynamics and marine resource economics.

Deadline: Feb. 17, 2021.

Funds: Four awards of up to $159,000. The maximum

project period is three years. A 20% match is required.

Eligibility: U.S. citizens admitted to a Ph.D. degree

program at a U.S. accredited university in the United States

in population dynamics, ecosystem dynamics, resource or

environmental economics or a related eld, such as wildlife

biology, shery biology, natural resource management,

marine biology, quantitative ecology, applied mathematics,

applied statistics or simulation modeling, at an institution

of higher education in the United States or its territories.

Areas: DOC said candidate projects will focus on at least

one of the following: (1) the population dynamics of living

marine resources, (2) stock assessment methodologies

and management applications, (3)marine ecosystem

modeling, (4) integrated ecosystem assessments,

(5)ecosystem-based management of marine

ecosystems, (6) quantitative survey methodologies and

(7)economics of the conservation and management of

living marine resources.

➜ www.grants.gov; FON# NOAA-OAR-

SG-2021-2006728

Marine Education and Training Mini Grant

Program (DOC)

Scope: The Commerce Department seeks applications

for the FY2021 Marine Education and Training

Mini Grant Program announcement to improve

communication, education and training on marine

resource issues throughout the region and increase

scientic education for marine-related professions

among coastal community residents, including

Indigenous Pacic Islanders, Native Hawaiians and

other underrepresented groups in the region.

Deadline: Feb. 10, 2021.

Funds: $150,000 for up to 13 awards of up to $15,000.

Eligibility: Colleges and universities; for-prot

organizations; nonprot organizations; state, local and

(more)