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Document Type:
Grants Notice
Funding Opportunity Number:
NOAA-NOS-NCCOS-2010-2002063
Opportunity Category:
Discretionary
Posted Date:
Jul 17, 2009
Creation Date:
Jul 17, 2009
Original Closing Date for Applications:
Oct 14, 2009
Applications must be received and validated
by Grants.gov on or before 3 p.m. ET on October 14, 2009. Please note:
Validation or rejection of your application by Grants.gov may take up
to 2 business days after submission. Please consider this process in
developing your submission timeline. Letters of Intent (LOI) for all
Competitions, although not required, should be received by 5 p.m.
Eastern Time, August 17, 2009.
Current Closing Date for Applications:
Oct 14, 2009
Applications must be received and validated
by Grants.gov on or before 3 p.m. ET on October 14, 2009. Please note:
Validation or rejection of your application by Grants.gov may take up
to 2 business days after submission. Please consider this process in
developing your submission timeline. Letters of Intent (LOI) for all
Competitions, although not required, should be received by 5 p.m.
Eastern Time, August 17, 2009.
Archive Date:
Nov 13, 2009
Funding Instrument Type:
Cooperative Agreement
Grant
Category of Funding Activity:
Environment
Natural Resources
Science and Technology and other Research and Development
Category Explanation:
Expected Number of Awards:
Estimated Total Program Funding:
Award Ceiling:
Award Floor:
CFDA Number(s):
11.478
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Center for Sponsored Coastal Ocean Research_Coastal Ocean Program
Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement:
No
Eligible Applicants
Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
Additional Information on Eligibility:
Eligible applicants are institutions of higher
education, other non-profits, state, local, Indian Tribal Governments,
commercial organizations, and Federal agencies that possess the
statutory authority to receive financial assistance. Please note that:
(1) NCCOS/CSCOR will not fund any Federal Full Time Employee (FTE)
salaries, but will fund travel, equipment, supplies, and contractual
personnel costs associated with the proposed work. (2) Researchers must
be employees of an eligible entity listed above; and proposals must be
submitted through that entity. Non-Federal researchers should comply
with their institutional requirements for proposal submission. (3) Non-
NOAA Federal applicants will be required to submit certifications or
documentation showing that they have specific legal authority to
receive funds from the Department of Commerce (DOC) for this research.
(4) NCCOS/CSCOR will accept proposals that include foreign researchers
as collaborators with a researcher who has met the above stated
eligibility requirements. (5) Non-Federal researchers affiliated with
NOAA-University Cooperative/Joint Institutes should comply with joint
institutional requirements; they will be funded through grants either
to their institutions or to joint institutes.
Agency Name
Department of Commerce
Description
The purpose of this document is to advise the
public that NOAA is soliciting proposals for the interagency Ecology
and Oceanography of Harmful Algal Blooms Program (ECOHAB), the NOAA
Monitoring and Event Response for Harmful Algal Blooms Program
(MERHAB), and the NOAA Prevention, Control, and Mitigation of Harmful
Algal Blooms Program (PCMHAB).
ECOHAB Objectives
ECOHAB aims to develop quantitative understanding of HABs and,
where applicable, their toxins in relation to the surrounding
environment with the intent of providing new information and tools,
predictive models and forecasts, and prevention strategies and to
develop models of trophic transfer of toxins, knowledge of biosynthesis
and metabolism of toxins, and assessment of impacts of toxins on higher
trophic levels. Information in these areas, in turn, supports a
critical goal of the ECOHAB program, the development of reliable models
to forecast bloom development, persistence, toxicity, and impacts.
Research results will be used directly to guide management of coastal
resources to reduce HAB development, impacts, and future threats and
will feed into other HAB programs for development of tools to improve
HAB management and response.
MERHAB Objectives
The principal objective of MERHAB is to build capacity of local,
state, and tribal governments, and the private sector, for less costly
and more precise and comprehensive monitoring of HAB cells and toxins,
and for responding to HAB events. With these advances, State programs
will be better able to take preventative actions (e.g. increase
monitoring efforts, close shellfish beds, warn affected communities) to
safeguard the public health, local economies, and fisheries. Further
advancements will assist the wildlife health communities respond to
HAB-related mortalities. As a result of the MERHAB Program, managers
will be able to mitigate the expanding HAB problems in their coastal
regions and be better positioned, especially during difficult state
fiscal climates, to request long-term support from local, state,
regional or Federal funding sources.
PCMHAB Objectives
The PCM HAB program will transition promising technologies and
strategies for preventing, controlling, or mitigating HABs and their
impacts from development through demonstration and technology transfer
for field application by end-users. The technologies will arise from
HAB research conducted by the two existing national HAB programs,
ECOHAB and MERHAB, or other research programs which conduct some HAB
research. The purpose is to develop new tools to improve HAB management
and response.
