[SEMCO] NERR Social Science Grad. Rsch. Fellowship

[Sheri DeRosa]

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Office of Ocean 
and Coastal Resource Management (OCRM), Estuarine Reserves Division, in 
collaboration with NOAA's Coastal Services Center (CSC) and the Sectoral 
Applications Research Program (SARP) of the Office of Oceanic and 
Atmospheric Research, Climate Program Office, are offering fellowships 
for masters and doctoral students to conduct social science research 
within the National Estuarine Research Reserve System. NERR social 
science research funds will be provided to support research projects 
that will provide information needed by reserve management and coastal 
management decision-makers, and improve public awareness and 
understanding of estuarine ecosystems and estuarine management issues 
(15 CFR§ 921.50).

The National Estuarine Research Reserve System will focus on the 
following areas of research for this opportunity.  Proposed research 
projects submitted in response to this announcement should address 
social, cultural, economic, or policy aspects related to one of the 
following topics:

1.Community resilience (e.g., individual and community vulnerability; 
resistance, response, and adaptability to continuous or episodic natural 
and anthropogenic stressors; risk perception)

2.Ecological restoration (e.g., human behaviors; advocacy and 
volunteerism; responses to social and ecological change; personal and 
societal value orientations)

3.Ecosystem-based management (e.g., collaborative decision-making; 
motivations or preferences for resource uses or management practices; 
ways in which people affect or are affected by natural resource 
management decisions; cultural history)

4.Landscape or seascape change (e.g., current or potential effects on or 
threats to the traits, patterns, or structure of a specific geographic 
area of the terrestrial or aquatic environment, including its 
biological, physical, and anthropogenic attributes; population and 
demographic change; coastal urbanization and habitat fragmentation)

5.Climate variability and change (e.g., sea level rise; extreme weather 
events; seasonal or interannual climate fluctuations; effects on water 
resources, living marine resources, agricultural productivity, delivery 
of ecosystem services, or public health and safety)

For detailed descriptions of the reserves and a copy of this funding 
opportunity, refer to the NERRS Web site at www.nerrs.noaa.gov.
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