2025 NMFS-Sea Grant Fellowship in Population and Ecosystem Dynamics and Marine Resource Economics

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2025 NMFS
Funding Category
Fellowships
Application Deadline
Proposal Contact: sgproposal@ucsd.edu
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Education, Training and Public Information

 

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**On 1/10/25, the 90-4 budget form link was updated. Please use the new template when creating your budgets.**

Timeline
Program Overview
Eligibility
Award Information
How to Submit an Application
Application
Evaluation Criteria
Review and Selection Process
Reporting Requirements
Deadlines
Contacts

TIMELINE 

  • January 23, 2025, 5:00PM PT - Application materials submitted by student to California Sea Grant via eSeaGrant
  • February 13, 2025 2:00PM PT - Letters of Intent submitted by California Sea Grant via email to National Sea Grant Office Fellowship Program Managers
  • March 13, 2025 8:59PM PT - Selected applications submitted by California Sea Grant via Grants.gov to National Sea Grant Office Fellowship Program Managers
  • April/May 2025 - National Sea Grant Review
  • June 2025 - Finalists Notified by National Sea Grant
  • August 1, 2025 - Fellowship begins
  • July 31, 2028 - Fellowship ends

PROGRAM OVERVIEW

The National Sea Grant College Program (Sea Grant) and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) support Ph.D. graduate fellowships in two specific areas (1) population and ecosystem dynamics (PED) and (2) marine resource economics (MRE). The intent of this opportunity is to award a limited number of fellowships each year to students who are interested in careers related to population and ecosystem dynamics and marine resource economics with a mission to achieve sustainable living marine resource management, and account for changing conditions using an ecosystem-based fishery management approach.

Student projects will focus on at least one of the following: 1) the population dynamics of living marine resources including protected species and species for which we seek sustainable fisheries; 2) stock assessment methodologies; 3) marine ecosystem modeling; 4) integrated ecosystem assessments; 5) ecosystem-based management of marine ecosystems; 6) economics of the conservation and management of living marine resources; and 7) quantitative survey analytical methodologies. These projects need to have a strong quantitative and applied resource management emphasis.

The fellowship can provide support for up to three years for qualified graduate students working towards a Ph.D. in quantitative programs including ecology, ecosystem ecology, population dynamics or related fields of study such as wildlife biology, fishery biology, marine biology, quantitative ecology, applied mathematics, applied statistics, simulation modeling, marine resource economics, natural resource economics, or environmental economics.

If selected, each fellow will be required to work closely with an expert (mentor) from NMFS who may provide data for a fellow's thesis, serve on the fellow's committee, and/or host an annual summer internship at the participating NMFS facility. Mentors will be from participating NMFS Science Centers or offices. 

Staff lists and recent publications for each of the NOAA Fisheries Science Centers are listed on each Center’s website, linked below. Applicants in the Great Lakes region or in an area without a NOAA Fisheries Science Center may contact a potential mentor whose research aligns with their own. 

For more information, please contact your local Sea Grant Program or oar.sg.fellows@noaa.gov.

POPULATION AND ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS

The NMFS-Sea Grant Fellowship Program in Population and Ecosystem Dynamics anticipates funding at least four new Ph.D. fellowships in 2025 to students who are interested in careers related to marine ecosystem and population dynamics. The emphasis will be on the research and development of quantitative methods for assessing the status of marine ecosystems; managed fish, invertebrates, and other targeted species; and marine mammals, seabirds, and other protected species.

For those interested students with population and ecosystem dynamics topics: The fellowship covers both population and ecosystem dynamics to ensure support for fellows who conduct research in support of living marine resource assessments as well as conduct broadly-scoped ecosystem assessments, implement ecosystem-based management, and evaluate system-level considerations of living marine resources. As both ecosystem and population dynamics rely heavily on quantitative marine ecology methods and skills, this announcement reflects that underlying commonality.

MARINE RESOURCE ECONOMICS

The NMFS-Sea Grant Fellowship Program in Marine Resource Economics anticipates funding at least one new Ph.D. fellowship in 2025 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.

Similarly for those students interested in marine resource economics topics: The fellowship supports fellows who conduct research evaluating the benefits and costs of alternative management actions for commercial fisheries by analyzing critical fishery management issues, helping to ensure the sustainability and maximization of societal benefits from marine resources. As marine resource economics relies heavily on quantitative economics methods and skills, this announcement reflects that underlying commonality.

For full information on this opportunity, please consult the resources below:

Full Notice of Funding Opportunity 

NMFS-Sea Grant Joint Fellowship Program

2025 NMFS-Sea Grant Fellowship Student Guide

Student Applicant Guide to Sea Grant Fellowships

ELIGIBILITY

Full applications submitted to Grants.gov must come from an eligible Sea Grant program. Prospective fellows enrolled towards a degree in a graduate program in a state or territory served by a Sea Grant program must submit to that program. Applications that are not approved and submitted by the student’s state Sea Grant program will not be considered for review. Interested students in states or territories without a Sea Grant program must submit their applications to the Sea Grant program to which they were referred to by the NMFS Fellowship Program Manager (oar.sg.fellows@noaa.gov). Those eligible to submit to a Sea Grant Program:

  1. Prospective fellows must be United States citizens.
  2. At the time of application, prospective fellows must be admitted to a Ph.D. degree program at a U.S. accredited university in the U.S. in population dynamics, ecosystem dynamics, resource or environmental economics, or a related field such as wildlife biology, fishery biology, natural resource management, marine biology, quantitative ecology, applied mathematics, applied statistics, or simulation modeling at an institution of higher education in the United States or its territories.
  3. Alternatively, a prospective fellow may submit a signed letter from the institution indicating provisional acceptance to a Ph.D. degree program conditional on obtaining financial support such as this fellowship. 

The National Sea Grant College Program champions diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) by recruiting, retaining, and preparing a diverse workforce, and proactively engaging and serving the diverse populations of coastal communities. Sea Grant is committed to building inclusive research, extension, communication, and education programs that serve people with unique backgrounds, circumstances, needs, perspectives, and ways of thinking. We encourage Sea Grant program applications to reflect diverse participation with regards to age, race, ethnicities, national origins, gender identities, sexual orientations, disabilities, cultures, religions, citizenship types, marital statuses, education levels, job classifications, veteran status types, income, and socioeconomic status.

COST SHARE OR MATCHING REQUIREMENT

Non-federal matching funds equal to at least 20 percent (20%) of the federal funding request must be provided unless a waiver justified by statute is granted, such as the waiver for insular areas granted by the Department of Commerce pursuant to 48 U.S.C. 1469a. The cumulative match at the end of each year of the grant must not fall below 20 percent of the cumulative federal request up to that point. For example, if $66,700 in federal funds is requested (the maximum allowable annual request), matching funds must be at least $13,340. In other words, applicants may not ‘under’ match in year one and ‘over’ match in year two. In-kind contributions directly supporting this application may count towards this matching requirement.

AWARD INFORMATION

Subject to the availability of funding, the fellowship program expects to award at least four new Ph.D. fellowships to students who are interested in careers related to population and ecosystem dynamics of living marine resources and/or marine ecosystem dynamics, and at least one new Ph.D. fellowship to students who are interested in careers related to marine resource economics.

The award for each fellowship will be a multi-year cooperative agreement in an amount not to exceed $66,700 in federal funds per year for up to three years. Matching funds of 20% of the total federal request are required.Continued support after the first year will be contingent upon the availability of federal funds and satisfactory performance by the grantee.

The funding instrument is a cooperative agreement to an eligible institution. A cooperative agreement is used when substantial involvement of the federal government during performance of the proposed work is anticipated. The nature of the substantial involvement includes NMFS mentoring and hosting successful fellows. This involvement may include serving for 10-20 days aboard a research or commercial vessel during a scientific survey or experimental activity. Additionally, the fellow may work on their thesis research or related activity at a participating NMFS facility. The fellow's work will be overseen by a NMFS mentor who will provide advice and guidance.

There is no guarantee that funds will be available to make awards, or that any application will be selected for funding. If an applicant incurs any costs prior to receiving an award agreement signed by an authorized NOAA official, it does so at its own risk of not being selected or of these costs not being included in a subsequent award. NOAA and DOC will not be responsible for any incurred project costs if a project fails to receive full funding.

HOW TO SUBMIT AN APPLICATION

  • If you are enrolled towards a degree in a graduate or professional program in California, then your application must come through California Sea Grant.
  • If you are enrolled towards a degree in a graduate or professional program in a state or territory not served by a Sea Grant program you must first contact the agency contact listed below to obtain a written referral to an eligible Sea Grant program. This referral must be included in the application package.

The electronic files comprising your application must be submitted as PDFs using eSeaGrant, California Sea Grant’s online submission portal:

Apply here- ESEAGRANT

You will need to register for an account (click on the banner labeled “Register”) in eSeaGrant if you have not done so in the past year. You can change the randomly generated password once you log in successfully into the website.  

FORMATTING:  Please ensure electronic files are no larger than 6 MB. Only PDFs are accepted. Please make sure to include your last name in the file names for each section of the proposal (e.g., Smith_statement.pdf or Smith_cv.pdf). When naming the document please do not use apostrophes. Once submitted through the website, PDFs may not be edited. To change a PDF, it must be deleted and resubmitted.

IMPORTANT: To maintain confidentiality, letters of recommendation may be submitted directly from the referee to California Sea Grant through eSeaGrant and must be submitted by the application deadline to be considered. Please address letters to Dr. Shauna Oh, Director, California Sea Grant. Late submissions may lead to the rejection of incomplete applications. Candidates are encouraged to work with referees to meet the deadline. 

For technical issues with submitting your application through eSeaGrant, or for electronic files larger than 6 MB please contact sgproposal@ucsd.edu.

Application Deadline: January 23, 2025, 5:00PM PST

The electronic version of your application, with required signatures, must be submitted as PDFs via eSeaGrant (California Sea Grant's online submission portal):

NOTE: THE ESEAGRANT PROPOSAL PORTAL WILL CLOSE AT THE DATE AND TIME STATED ABOVE, AND LATE APPLICATIONS (EVEN 1 MINUTE LATE) CANNOT BE ACCEPTED. IT IS THE APPLICANT'S RESPONSIBILITY TO GET ALL REQUIRED MATERIALS SUBMITTED BEFORE THE DEADLINE. WE ADVISE TO NOT WAIT UNTIL THE LAST MINUTE TO SUBMIT YOUR APPLICATION; WHEN ESEAGRANT EXPERIENCES HIGH USER TRAFFIC, YOU MAY EXPERIENCE PAGE LOADING DELAYS.

APPLICATION

Please make sure to include your last name in the file names for each section of the proposal (e.g., Smith_budget.pdf or Smith_cv.pdf). 

Note: While there are two separate opportunities (Population and Ecosystem Dynamics and Marine Resource Economics) there is only one application, so applicants must indicate which concentration they are applying for on their cover page. 

PROJECT NARRATIVE

Project Narrative Elements:

  • Signed Institutional Cover Page (not to exceed one page) - The title page should include the name and contact information of the prospective fellow and should specify your project’s focus area (either PED or MRE). 
    • The title of the proposal, depending on the student’s research concentration, should read either "Last name_PED” or “Last name_MRE” as a prefix.
    • Title page should also include a brief project abstract.
    • Summary of the financial information for the project
    • Approval signatures from the fellow, faculty advisor, and institutional representative
  • Project Summary (4,000 characters or less) - The Project Summary should provide an overview of the application. Ensure the Project Abstract succinctly describes the project in plain language that the public can understand and use without the full proposal. It should be a self-contained description of the application and should contain a general statement of objectives and methods to be employed. It should be informative to other persons working in the same or related fields and understandable to a technically literate lay reader. Do not include personally identifiable, sensitive or proprietary/confidential information. This project abstract information (as submitted) will be made available on public websites and/or databases including USAspending.gov.
    Use the following format:
    • Purpose:
    • Activities to be performed:
    • Expected Outcomes:
    • Intended Beneficiaries:
  • Project proposal (not to exceed five pages, single spaced) - The project proposal is intended to describe the proposed dissertation or the general intended area of study. If a proposal is longer than five pages, only the first five will be shared with reviewers. References and figures should be included as an appendix and do not count towards the five page limit. It must be written by the prospective fellow and include the following:
    • the number of years for which fellowship support is being sought;
    • a brief summary of the work to be completed;
    • a rationale for the proposed activity;
    • scientific or technical objectives and/or hypotheses to be tested;
    • appropriate details on methodology, and relevance of results.

Candidate should demonstrate how their project will focus on at least one of the following: 1) the population dynamics of living marine resources; 2) stock assessment and survey methodologies; 3) marine ecosystem modeling; 4) integrated ecosystem assessments; 5) ecosystem-based management of marine ecosystems; and 6) economics of the conservation and management of living marine resources. Interdisciplinary topics are encouraged.

Note: References should be provided separately in the Bibliography and References Cited form (see below).

  • Bibliography & References Cited Attachment (if applicable): If applicable, provide a bibliography of any references cited in the Project Narrative. Each reference must include the names of all authors (in the same sequence in which they appear in the publication), the article and journal title, book title, volume number, page numbers, and year of publication. Include only bibliographic citations. Applicants should be especially careful to follow scholarly practices in providing citations for source materials relied upon when preparing any section of the application.

  • Education and career goal statement (not to exceed two pages, single spaced) - If a career goal statement is longer than two pages, only the first two pages will be shared with reviewers. The statement should discuss the student's interest in the economics of the conservation and management of living marine resources, and/or quantitative marine ecology, with a focus on one or more of the following: 
    • Development and implementation of methods for assessing marine ecosystems and/or stock status of living marine resources; ecosystem-based management; 
    • population dynamics of managed aquatic animals; 
    • quantitative survey methodologies; 
    • commitment to apply scientific expertise to serve society equitably (consider academics, volunteer activities, professional activities or personal experiences).
  • Curriculum vitae (CV) (not to exceed 2 pgs each)- The student, the faculty advisor, and the NMFS mentor must each submit a CV which is not to exceed 2 pages. The CVs should not include personal, contact information or web links to external resources (e.g., LinkedIn, articles, blogs, etc.). If a CV is longer than two pages, only the first two pages will be shared with reviewers.
  • Summary of academic training in quantitative methods (one page, single spaced)- The student should provide a one-page maximum single spaced summary describing their academic training in quantitative methods; a listing of your top five classes in quantitative methods already taken; and classes you intend to take over the spring 2025 semester. Class listings should include course name (though course number e.g., MA 551 can be excluded) and a short description of content covered in course.
  • Transcripts - Clear copies of all undergraduate and graduate student transcripts. These copies may be either official or unofficial transcripts. For students who have been accepted but not yet enrolled in a current Ph.D. program, the program’s acceptance letter is adequate to fill the requirement of Ph.D. transcripts.
  • A minimum of two signed letters of recommendation (not to exceed 2 pgs each) -  Each letter of recommendation must not exceed two pages single spaced. If a letter is longer than two pages, only the first two pages will be shared with reviewers. Signed letters of recommendation should be from:
    • The student's faculty advisor. The letters should discuss the following attributes of the student: quantitative skills, self-motivation, response to setbacks, skills and involvement in teamwork, academic and performance and/or potential.
    • The student’s NMFS mentor. In addition to noting the NMFS staff member’s commitment to serve as a mentor, letters from NMFS mentors should briefly address the relevance of the research to NMFS, as well as a statement of broader impacts of the proposal.
    • If multiple advisors or mentors are contributing, each one should provide a separate letter. 

NOTE: Blinded reviewer comments will be provided to the students, including discussion of the letters of recommendation.

Abbreviated Environmental Compliance Questionnaire (OMB Control No. 0648-0538): Applicants must ensure that the questionnaire is completed in full and includes detailed information regarding project location, methodology, and permits. Copies of all permits required for project activities should be included with application materials. If a permit is pending or planned, please provide this information.

  • A separate questionnaire must be completed for each relevant action/project in the proposal. 
  • 2. The questionnaire can be found in the Resources for Applicants & Reviewers section found here: https://seagrant.noaa.gov/funding/.
  • Guidance on how to complete the questionnaire, including how to describe work that will not involve any environmental impact, can be found here: https://seagrant.noaa.gov/funding/. Examples of questionnaires can also be found in the same link. 

Data Management Plan (not to exceed two pages):

  • Environmental data and information collected or created under NOAA grants or cooperative agreements must be made discoverable by and accessible to the general public, in a timely fashion (typically within two years), free of charge or at no more than the cost of reproduction, unless an exemption is granted by the NOAA Program. Data should be available in at least one machine-readable format, preferably a widely-used or open-standard format, and should also be accompanied by machine-readable documentation (metadata), preferably based on widely used or international standards. 
  • Proposals submitted in response to this Announcement must include a Data Management Plan of up to two pages describing how these requirements will be satisfied. The Data Management Plan should be aligned with the Data Management Guidance provided by NOAA in the Announcement. The contents of the Data Management Plan (or absence thereof), and past performance regarding such plans, will be considered as part of proposal review. A typical plan should include descriptions of the types of environmental data and information expected to be created during the course of the project; the tentative date by which data will be shared; the standards to be used for data/metadata format and content; methods for providing data access; approximate total volume of data to be collected; and prior experience in making such data accessible. The costs of data preparation, accessibility, or archiving may be included in the proposal budget unless otherwise stated in the Guidance. Accepted submission of data to the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) is one way to satisfy data sharing requirements; however, NCEI is not obligated to accept all submissions and may charge a fee, particularly for large or unusual datasets. 
  • NOAA may, at its own discretion, make publicly visible the Data Management Plan from funded proposals, or use information from the Data Management Plan to produce a formal metadata record and include that metadata in a Catalog to indicate the pending availability of new data. 
  • Proposal submitters are hereby advised that the final pre-publication manuscripts of scholarly articles produced entirely or primarily with NOAA funding will be required to be submitted to NOAA Institutional Repository after acceptance, and no later than upon publication. Such manuscripts shall be made publicly available by NOAA one year after publication by the journal.
  • More information can be found on NOAA’s Data Management Procedures at: https://nosc.noaa.gov/EDMC/documents/Data_Sharing_Directive_v3.0_remediated.pdf and at NAO 212-15 Management of Environmental Data and Information: https://www.noaa.gov/organization/administration/nao-212-15-management-of-environmental-data-and-information

BUDGET NARRATIVE  

We expect budgets to be developed and submitted with significant support from the research mentor and hosting institution. 

Please complete the Excel 90-4 Budget Form and associated budget justification. 

  • Sea Grant 90-4 forms are required to provide budget breakdowns and budget justifications by year and object class by each succinct project within the proposal. A Sea Grant 90-4 form should be completed for each project year, as well as a total budget for the entire project duration (i.e., Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, and Years 1-3). Dollar amounts in this form must be in whole dollars. Please ensure the numbers in the forms and narrative match. The Sea Grant 90-4 form can be downloaded from the Forms and Templates section of Inside Sea Grant: https://seagrant.noaa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/904_TEMPLATE_05Dec24.xlsm. The Excel version should be used in the creation of the 90-4 and should then be turned into a PDF, combined with the budget justification into a single PDF. Guidance on filling out the form and budget justification is located in the California Sea Grant Budget Guidance Document.
  • For each year of the project (or each individual project within an application), a budget justification is required. Each budget justification should explain the budget items in sufficient detail to enable review of the appropriateness of the funding requested.

The award for each fellowship will be a multi-year cooperative agreement in an amount not to exceed $66,700 in federal funds per year for up to three years. Non-federal matching funds equal to at least 20 percent of the federal funding request must be provided unless a waiver justified by statute is granted and the cumulative match at the end of each year of the grant must not fall below 20 percent of the cumulative federal request up to that point.

The budget should include funds to travel to the annual Fellows Symposium and may include funds for stipend, tuition, fees, equipment, supplies, discretionary travel, and other reasonable and appropriate projects costs. Sub-contracts, if any, should have a seperate budget page in the attached budget justification.

Indirect costs are not allowable for either the fellowship or for any costs associated with the fellowship including waived indirect costs as match (15 C.F.R. § 917.11(e), "Guidelines for Sea Grant Fellowships.

Overall application forms, such as the SF-424, SF424A, etc., will be completed by California Sea Grant.

For questions related to budgets, contact California Sea Grant (sgproposal@ucsd.edu).

EVALUATION CRITERIA

For the NMFS-Sea Grant Fellowship in Population and Ecosystem Dynamics and Marine Resource Economics the evaluation criteria are summarized below. For more details on the breakdown of evaluation criteria, please see the 2025 NMFS-Sea Grant Fellowship Student Guide.

  1. Quality of project and applicability to program priorities (30 points). The project summary should provide evidence of important and innovative research and relate that research to relevant agency priorities.
  2. Relevant experience related to diversity of education; extra- curricular activities; honors and awards; and interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills (20 points). The curriculum vitae, career goal statement, and summary of academic training in quantitative methods should demonstrate the experiences of the student as they relate to marine or aquatic related fields.
  3. Academic record as it relates to quantitative coursework and related fields (20 points). The academic record is evaluated using student transcripts (undergraduate AND graduate), the summary of academic training in quantitative methods, and the curriculum vitae (CV).
  4. Recommendations and/or endorsements of the student (20 points total). For the student's faculty advisor, the letters should discuss the following attributes of the student: academic abilities and/or potential, leadership potential, confidence, maturity, self-direction, teamwork, and collaborative leadership skills. For the student’s NMFS mentor, in addition to noting the NMFS staff member’s commitment to serve as a mentor, letters from NMFS mentors should briefly address the student and their academic abilities and/or potential, the relevance of the research to NMFS, as well as a statement of broader impacts of the proposal. 
  5. Overall application cohesion (10 points). All aspects of the application materials (CV, summary of academic training in quantitative methods, project summary, education and career goal statement from the student, letters of recommendation).

REVIEW AND SELECTION PROCESS

Once a full proposal application has been received by NOAA, an initial administrative review is conducted to determine compliance with requirements and completeness of the application. Applications that are missing required elements listed in Section IV. B. above, or applications coming from ineligible applicants may be rejected without further review. NOAA in its sole discretion may continue review of applications with minor deficiencies that may be easily rectified or cured.

State Level/Individual Sea Grant Program Review:

An initial administrative review is conducted to determine compliance with requirements and completeness of the application.

National Level Review:

Applications that are missing required elements, or applications coming from ineligible applicants may be rejected without further review. Applications received in each focus area will be sorted into two pools (PED and MRE), and applications will be reviewed against each other in their own pool. Applications in each pool that pass administrative review will receive at least three written reviews assessing the merits with regard to the evaluation criteria. Reviewers will be drawn from experts in a range of disciplines that are relevant to the focus area. If needed, panels for each may be conducted.

The selecting official shall award in the rank order unless the application is justified to be

selected out of rank order based upon any of the selection factors provided in Section V of the Notice of Funding Opportunity. The selecting official shall make final recommendations for awards to the Grants Officer who is authorized to obligate the funds and execute the award.

NOTE: Blinded reviewer comments will be provided to the students, including discussion of the LORs.

The program manager, NEPA staff lead, or grants specialist may contact the applicants to discuss questions about the merit or administrative correctness of the application and may delay approval of the application, or impose conditions on the award preventing funding or execution of certain activities, until all questions are satisfactorily answered.

Selection Factors

The Selecting Official shall recommend awarding in the rank order unless the proposal is justified to be selected out of rank order based on one or more of the following factors:

1. Availability of funding.

2. Balance/distribution of funds:

a. geographically

b. by type of institution

c. across academic disciplines

3. Program-specific objectives as listed in Section I.A of the Notice of Funding Opportunity.

4. Degree in scientific area and type of degree sought

Consequently, awards may not necessarily be made to the highest-scored applications. Investigators may be asked to answer questions; and/or modify objectives, work plans, and/or budgets (including overall funding level) to address the issues raised by the reviewers, the competition manager, the Selecting Official, or the Grants Officer before an award is made. Subsequent administrative processing will be in accordance with current NOAA grants procedures.

REPORTING REQUIREMENTS

Financial reports are to be submitted semi-annually and performance (technical) reports are to be submitted semi-annually.

The Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act, 31 U.S.C. 6101 note, includes a requirement for awardees of applicable Federal grants to report information about first-tier subawards and executive compensation under Federal assistance awards. All awardees of applicable grants and cooperative agreements are required to report to the FFATA Subaward Reporting System (FSRS) available at https://www.fsrs.gov/ on all subawards over $30,000. Refer to 2 CFR Part 170.

DEADLINES

For applying students:

  • January 23, 2025 5:00PM PT - Application materials submitted by student to California Sea Grant via eSeaGrant

For California Sea Grant:

  • February 13, 2025 2:00PM PT - Letters of Intent submitted by California Sea Grant via email to National Sea Grant Office Fellowship Program Managers

  • March 13, 2025 8:59PM PT - Selected applications submitted by California Sea Grant via Grants.gov to National Sea Grant Office Fellowship Program Managers

CONTACTS

Proposal Format, eSeaGrant, & Budget Questions:

California Sea Grant

sgproposal@ucsd.edu

Agency Contacts:

The National Sea Grant Office mailing address is: 

NOAA Sea Grant 
1315 East-West Highway 
Silver Spring, MD 20910

Tel: (301) 734-1066

E-mail: oar.sg.fellows@noaa.gov

 

Application Resources

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