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<div class="field-item even">The 2017 Sea Grant Aquaculture
Initiative includes two competitive funding opportunities.
The Woods Hole Sea Grant Program is responsible for some
preliminary steps, including determining a <em>maximum of
three proposals</em> that can be submitted for one of the
competitions, and gathering and submitting Letters of Intent
for the other competition. Please read the Initiative RFPs
carefully before submitting a Letter of Intent as we will be
evaluating the letters for the smaller competition as a basis
for selecting ideas that can be the basis for a maximum of
three full proposals.
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<b>NOAA Sea Grant 2017 Aquaculture Initiative:
Integrated Projects to Increase Aquaculture Production
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<p>This competition is focused on projects
that show great promise to increase
aquaculture production in the near future by
clearly addressing major constraints,
barriers, or hurdles limiting United States
marine, coastal, and Great Lakes aquaculture
production. NOAA Sea Grant expects to have
available a total of $10,000,000-$12,000,000
between fiscal years 2017, 2018, and 2019
for a national initiative <strong>to
increase domestic aquaculture production
in the short-term (2-4 years).</strong></p>
<h6><font size="+1"><span
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class="text__color__primary">Important
due dates:</span></strong></span></font></h6>
<p><strong><span class="text__color__primary">Thursday,
March 23, 2017, 4:30 p.m. EST</span></strong>:
<u><strong>Letter of Intent</strong></u>
from prospective PIs. <br>
E-mail to the Woods Hole Sea Grant Program:
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:seagrant@whoi.edu">seagrant@whoi.edu</a><a
href="mailto:stephen.jones@unh.edu"></a>
and copy Judy McDowell, <a
href="mailto:erik.chapman@unh.edu">jmcdowell@whoi.eduthe</a></p>
<p><strong><span class="text__color__primary">Tuesday,
March 28, 2017, Letters of Intent are
submitted to the National Sea Grant
Program by Woods Hole Sea Grant.<br>
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<p><strong><span class="text__color__primary">Tuesday,
May 9, 2017, 5:00 p.m. EST</span></strong>: <u><strong>Full
proposal submissions</strong></u> into
Grants.gov</p>
<p>Details on this funding opportunity
including the format for the Letters of
Intent and full proposals can be found on
Grants.gov.<a
href="https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=291881"
target="_blank"> (NOAA-OAR-SG-2017
–2005176)</a>.</p>
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<b>NOAA Sea Grant 2017 Aquaculture Initiative:
Addressing Impediments to Aquaculture Opportunities<br>
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<div class="field-item even">This competition is
focused on projects that may be earlier in the
exploratory/development phase that show
promise to contribute to the expansion of
sustainable marine, coastal, and Great Lakes
aquaculture in the United States. NOAA Sea
Grant expects to have available a total of
$3,000,000 between fiscal years 2017 and 2018
for a national initiative focused on answering
key questions impeding the development and
expansion of sustainable United States marine,
coastal, and Great Lakes aquaculture.<br>
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<b><span class="text__color__primary">Important
due dates:</span></b><br>
<p><strong><span class="text__color__primary">Wednesday,
March 29, 2017, 4:30 p.m. EST:</span></strong>
<strong><u>Letter of intent </u></strong>that
describes the objectives, methods, outcomes
and an estimated budget (one page max) for
any potential proposal.<br>
E-mail to the Woods Sea Grant Program:
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:seagrant@whoi.edu">seagrant@whoi.edu</a><a
href="mailto:stephen.jones@unh.edu"></a>
and copy Judy McDowell, <a
href="mailto:erik.chapman@unh.edu">jmcdowell@whoi.edu</a>
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<p><em>For this competition, 3 letters of
intent will be selected that will be
eligible to submit full proposals. </em></p>
<p><span class="text__color__primary"><strong>Tuesday,
April 11, 2018, full proposals due to
Woods Hole Sea Grant, </strong></span><br>
E-mail to the Woods Sea Grant Program:
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:seagrant@whoi.edu">seagrant@whoi.edu</a> and copy Judy McDowell, <a
href="mailto:erik.chapman@unh.edu">jmcdowell@whoi.edu</a></p>
<p><span class="text__color__primary"><strong>Tuesday,
April 18, 2017, 5:00 p.m. EST:</strong></span>
<strong><u>Full proposal submission</u></strong> into
grants.gov </p>
<p>Details on this funding opportunity
including the format of full proposals can
be found on Grants.gov. <a
href="http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=291894"
target="_blank">(NOAA-OAR-SG-2017
–2005177)</a>.</p>
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