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Please click on the opportunity in the "Current Opportunities" table below for which you are interested in applying. If no opportunities are present in this table, please check back at a later date:

Other Current Funding Opportunities:

New York Sea Grant's Out-Of-Cycle Funding - Guidelines for applying | PDF

Special Note (May 09, 2013): NYSG is currently suspending consideration of all OOC requests in the "new PI" and "development" categories until further notice. At the time that NYSG can again consider OOC requests in categories III and IV (as listed in the guidelines), a message will be sent to our list-serv of researchers.

Background:  New York Sea Grant has limited funds each year that are available to support special funding requests. Such funding requests are referred to as “out of cycle” or OOC since they do not coincide with normal Calls for Proposals.  Previous guidelines focused on Conferences and Rapid Response Research mini-grants.

What's New:  Conferences and Rapid Response Research remain as important request options, but now two additional categories have been added:  New PI (principal investigator) Mini-Grants and Development Mini-Grants.

Note:  There is no deadline.


Regional Funding Opportunities:

Northeast Sea Grant College Consortium Call For Preliminary Regional Proposals | PDF
2014-2016 Omnibus Funding Cycle
Human Dimensions of Coastal and Marine Ecosystems
- Pre-proposal deadline: 5:00 p.m. EST, Friday, February 22, 2013
- Full proposal deadline: 5:00 p.m. EDT, Monday, June 3, 2013
Recognizing that some issues are best addressed at the regional scale, the Sea Grant Programs in the Northeast (New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, MIT, Woods Hole, New Hampshire, and Maine), through the Northeast Sea Grant Consortium, have set aside funds (approximately $350,000) for social science research proposals that have relevance to the Gulf of Maine and Greater New York Bight regions (from the Canadian Border to Cape May, NJ).



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RFP Announcement List - NYSGRFP-L
NYSGRFP-L is a listserv providing timely announcements of RFP and related opportunities released by New York Sea Grant and other funding agencies. This is a low volume non-discussion distribution list that sends out announcements of RFPs and related opportunities of interest to New York researchers such as fellowships, travel grants and conferences. Members receive information about funding opportunities directly through their email inboxes. This listserv is open to researchers in New York State. To be added to the list, send a request to the listserv manager at: lane.smith@stonybrook.edu

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Archive: Past Due Opportunities: (a sampling)

New York Sea Grant's Call for Inviting Proposals for Research related to Marine and Great Lakes Issues

• 2002-03 (PDF)
• 2004-05 (PDF)
• 2006 (PDF)
• 2007-08 (PDF)
• 2009-10 (PDF)
• 2011 (PDF)
• 2012-13 (PDF)
• 2014-15 (PDF)
• 2014-15: Great Lakes Integrated Assessment (PDF)

Mid-Atlantic Sea Grant Regional Research Request for Proposals | PDF
2014-2016 Omnibus Funding Cycle
- Pre-proposal deadline: March 15, 2013
Recognizing that many research questions cross state boundaries, the Mid-Atlantic Sea Grant programs are jointly releasing this request for proposals for collaborative and integrative research across the region that supports the Sea Grant mission. The participating state programs are New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina. Up to $840,000 is available for a two-year award (for a project that includes all seven states in the Mid-Atlantic region, although proposals from two or more states are eligible).

2013 NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowships | Click Here
- Apply by January 18, 2013
Applications are being accepted for the 2013 Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowship Program from eligible students who have an interest in ocean, coastal and Great Lakes resources and in the national policy decisions affecting those resources.
Length: 2 years, begins February 2013
Location: Washington, D.C.


2013-2014 Long Island Sound Multi-Disciplinary Research - Preliminary Proposals
Closed on: June 8, 2012
The Sea Grant programs of New York and Connecticut are pleased to announce this preliminary call for research proposals (pdf) related to the Environmental Protection Agency's Long Island Sound Study. The intent of this program is to fund research that will support the management of Long Island Sound and its resources.


2013 Knauss Fellowship Program
Closed at: 5PM on Friday, February 17, 2012.
This Fellowship is for eligible students who have an interest in ocean, coastal and Great Lakes resources and in the national policy decisions affecting those resources.


2012 Great Lakes Commission - Sea Grant Fellowship
Closed at: 5PM (EST) on Tuesday, January 31, 2012.
This fellowship focuses on environmental quality and sustainable economic development in the Great Lakes region.


NOAA Coastal Management Fellowship
Closed at: 4PM (EST) on Friday. January 27, 2012.
This fellowship matches postgraduate students with state coastal resource agencies to work on coastal projects.


2012 NMFS-Sea Grant Fellowships in Population Dynamics
Closed at: 4PM (EST) on Friday, January 20, 2012.
This fellowship is awarded to at least two new PhD fellowships each year to students who are interested in careers related to the population dynamics of living marine resources and the development and implementation of quantitative methods for assessing their status.


2012 NMFS-Sea Grant Fellowships in Marine Resource Economics
Closed at: 4PM (EST) on Friday, January 20, 2012.
This program generally awards two new PhD fellowships each year to students who are interested in careers related to the development and implementation of quantitative methods for assessing the economics of the conservation and management of living marine resources.


Sea Grant Climate Adaptation Graduate Fellowship click here
Applications were due: 5PM (EST) on December 13, 2011


Mid-Atlantic Sea Grant Sea Level Rise & Inundation RFP Announcement (PDF)
Letters of Intent were due: May 2, 2011 / Full Proposals were due: May 23, 2011
Sea Grant programs from New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia have released this Request for Proposals for research on the socioeconomic impacts and behavior change issues associated with sea level rise and inundation. Virginia Sea Grant is administering this RFP and submissions should be sent to vsgproposals@vims.edu.


Human Dimensions of Coastal and Marine Ecosystems click here
Pre-proposals were due Tuesday, February 22, 2011 / Full proposals were due Friday, June 3, 2011 Recognizing that some issues are best addressed at the regional scale, the Sea Grant Programs in the Northeast (New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, MIT, Woods Hole, New Hampshire, and Maine), through the Northeast Sea Grant Consortium, have set aside funds (approximately $350,000) for social science research proposals that have relevance to the Gulf of Maine and Greater New York Bight regions (from the Canadian Border to Cape May, NJ).


2012 Knauss Fellowship Program
Closed at: 5PM on Friday, February 18, 2011.
Applications are being accepted for the 2012 Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship Program from eligible students who have an interest in ocean, coastal and Great Lakes resources and in the national policy decisions affecting those resources.


NOAA Coastal Management Fellowship
Applications were due Friday, January 28, 2011 The Coastal Management Fellowship was established in 1996 to provide on-the-job education and training opportunities in coastal resource management and policy for postgraduate students and to provide project assistance to state coastal zone management programs. The program matches postgraduate students with state coastal zone programs to work on projects proposed by the state and selected by the fellowship sponsor, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Coastal Services Center. This two-year opportunity offers a competitive salary, medical benefits, and travel and relocation expense reimbursement. For more details see the Web site.


Long Island Sound Study: Invited Full Proposals 2011-2013 Long Island Sound Research
Full Proposals were due 4:30pm EDT on Friday October 1, 2010
Open only to researchers invited to submit full proposals based on previously reviewed preproposals submitted for the Connecticut Sea Grant (CTSG) and New York Sea Grant (NYSG) Long Island Sound Study (LISS) research program.


Sea Grant Aquaculture Research Program 2010
Applications are due: Tuesday, May 25, 2010, 5:00 PM EDT
NOAA Sea Grant will make available up to $6,000,000 in total for a national competition to fund aquaculture research projects for FY 2010 to FY 2011, as part of the overall plan to support the development of environmentally and economically sustainable ocean, coastal or Great Lakes aquaculture.

2009 Long Island Sound Study
Science and Technical Advisory Committee Fellowship Program
Applications were due June 1, 2009 (PDF)
LISS intends to award partial fellowships to two graduate students to participate in and support the work of the LISS Science and Technical Advisory Committee. The purpose of the fellowships is to provide experience on Long Island Sound issues and programs to students interested in environmental management or policy careers.


2010 NMFS-Sea Grant Joint Fellowship Program in Population Dynamics
Closed at: 4PM on Friday, January 15, 2010.
The Graduate Fellowship Program generally awards two new PhD fellowships each year to students who are interested in careers related to the development and implementation of quantitative methods for assessing the economics of the conservation and management of living marine resources.


2010 NMFS-Sea Grant Joint Fellowship Program in Marine Resource Economics
Closed at: 4PM on Friday, January 15, 2010
The Graduate Fellowship Program generally awards two new PhD fellowships each year to students who are interested in careers related to the development and implementation of quantitative methods for assessing the economics of the conservation and management of living marine resources.


NOAA Coastal Management Fellowship 
Applications were due Friday, January 29, 2009
The Coastal Management Fellowship was established in 1996 to provide on-the-job education and training opportunities in coastal resource management and policy for postgraduate students and to provide project assistance to state coastal zone management programs. The program matches postgraduate students with state coastal zone programs to work on projects proposed by the state and selected by the fellowship sponsor, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Coastal Services Center. This two-year opportunity offers a competitive salary, medical benefits, and travel and relocation expense reimbursement.


2010 Sea Grant/Regional Team Climate Engagement

• Details from National Sea Grant (click here)
• Submission through Grants.Gov (click here)

For FY2010, the NOAA National Sea Grant College Program and Office of Program Planning and Integration anticipate making available up to $200K to support projects that advance priority climate engagement strategies throughout NOAA. The climate engagement mini-grants will be awarded only to proposals endorsed jointly by the NOAA Regional Collaboration Team Lead and the Sea Grant Liaison to the NOAAA Regional Collaboration Team (selected among the Sea Grant Directors program in the region). Awards will be made as inter-office transfers to NOAA entities and cooperative agreements to non-Federal entities, or a combination of inter-office transfers and cooperative agreements for projects that support both NOAA and non-Federal entities. Although other federal, state, tribal, Native Hawaiian, other native cultures, academic and non-profit or non-governmental organizations can act as partners, the project principal investigator of the grant must be a NOAA Federal employee or a Sea Grant employee. Requests for individual projects may not exceed $25K. Up to eight mini-grants of up to $25K are expected to be awarded through a competitive process, subject to availability of funds.


Long Island Sound Study: Invited Full Proposals
2009-2010 Long Island Sound Research 
Full Proposals were due November 17, 2008

Open only to researchers invited to submit full proposals based on previously reviewed preproposals submitted for the Connecticut Sea Grant (CTSG) and New York Sea Grant (NYSG) Long Island Sound Study (LISS) extra-mural research program. The program intends to fund research in support of the LISS, a regional, community-based partnership to protect and restore Long Island Sound.


Long Island Sound Study: Preliminary Proposals
2009-2010 Long Island Sound Research
Preliminary Proposals were due September 15, 2008
Connecticut Sea Grant (CTSG) and New York Sea Grant (NYSG) announce the Long Island Sound Study (LISS) extra-mural research program. The program intends to fund research in support of the LISS, a regional, community-based partnership to protect and restore Long Island Sound.  Information on the LISS can be obtained at www.longislandsoundstudy.net.