<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The NOAA Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management (OCRM) has released a new competitive grant announcement.</span><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> OCRM is requesting proposals to develop and conduct a comprehensive 5-year, applied research program that supports collaborative research in partnership with the National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERRS).</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Proposals are due on </span><span class="aBn" tabindex="0" data-term="goog_954569407">March 31, 2014</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. Details about this funding opportunity can be found on </span><a href="http://Grants.gov">Grants.gov</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> at: </span><a href="http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/search-grants.html?keywords=NOAA-NOS-OCRM-2014-2003980" target="_blank">http://www.grants.gov/web/<wbr>grants/search-grants.html?<wbr>keywords=NOAA-NOS-OCRM-2014-<wbr>2003980</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></span><div><div><br></div><div>A copy of the announcement is also attached to this message.</div><div><br></div><div>For more information please contact Dwight Trueblood (<a href="mailto:Dwight.Trueblood@noaa.gov" target="_blank">Dwight.Trueblood@noaa.gov</a>) or Marie Bundy (<a href="mailto:Marie.Bundy@noaa.gov" target="_blank">Marie.Bundy@noaa.gov</a>).</div></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; "><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><i style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; display: inline !important;"></div></span></i></div></div></span></i></span></div></span></div></span></span></div></div></body></html>