Program Update – July 2010
For funding beginning in FY 2011, the National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP) welcomes research proposals meeting the goal of partnerships between at least two of the following three sectors: academia, industry (including NGOs), and government. Proposals may address one or more of the following topic areas:
- Continued Development of Regional Coastal Ocean Observing Systems
- National-Scale Efforts Toward Verification and Validation of Observing Technologies
- Improved and Routine Production, Stewardship, and Application of the Group for High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature (GHRSST) Data
- Observational Data for Migratory Species on the Outer Continental Shelf to Inform Permitting and Licensing for Offshore Renewable Energy Facilities and to Contribute to Basic Knowledge of Marine Mammal Behavior and Ecology in this Habitat
The partner agencies (NOAA, NASA, ONR, DOE) are particularly interested in projects that provide timely and appropriate information to public mission agencies at the national, regional, state, local, and tribal levels, and that address integration across regional and national agency priorities. The deadline to apply is Friday, October 1, 2010 by 5:00 pm Eastern standard time. For more information on this Federal Funding Opportunity, visit http://www.grants.gov/search/announce.do;jsessionid=BfLJMLfG1PdVpxLJbThpvS4mKxyBTTWndwyl4GnPMQxc7qfD1N2J!970710500.
NOPP is pleased to announce the draft report from the Attaining Operational Marine Biodiversity Observations workshop, hosted at Ocean Leadership in May 2010, is available for review and comment on the NOPP website at http://www.nopp.org/forum. We hope you will provide constructive commentary and suggestions, as appropriate, to strengthen the overall report and/or individual sections and appendices.
The Interagency Working Group on Ocean Partnerships (IWG-OP) hosted a meeting at the Consortium for Ocean Leadership on July 16, 2010 and provided an update on agency activities related to the Gulf Coast oil spill. There was a discussion of potential partnership activities on common concerns in the Gulf Coast as a result of the oil spill.
