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                            style="font-size: 20px; color: #ffffff;">December
                            22, 2020</span></p>
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                        Hole Sea Grant requests proposals for two-year
                        projects from investigators at academic,
                        research and educational institutions throughout
                        the state of Massachusetts. Funded projects will
                        fill information gaps or provide innovative
                        solutions to pressing coastal issues in
                        Massachusetts and should be designed to help
                        address important local management problems.  </span></p>
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                        $1 million will be available to support 5-10
                        research projects during the two year funding
                        period. Sea Grant proposals require a match of
                        $1 of non-federal funds for every $2 of federal
                        funds requested.</span></p>
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                          are due by</strong>: 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time,
                        Friday, February 19, 2021</span></p>
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                          proposals are due by</strong>: 4:30 p.m.
                        Eastern Time, Friday, May 28, 2021</span></p>
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                            4th, 2021</em> at 1 p.m.</a> and on <a
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                            25th, 2021</em> at 1 p.m.</a> via Zoom to
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                        Contact Woods Hole Sea Grant's Research
                        Coordinator Jennie Rheuban at <a
                          href="mailto:seagrant-research@whoi.edu"
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