Open Funding Opportunities
 
  Currently Open -- Research and Outreach      
   
Gulf of Mexico Alliance Regional Partnership Projects -- Projects must actively involve stakeholders and focus on support and implementation of the Gulf of Mexico Alliance Governor's Action Plan for Healthy and Resilient Coasts. Deadline is March 15, 2008. For more information see the attached 23 page pdf.
   
       
  Currently Open -- Scholarships/Fellowships      
   
   
  Closed or General
  2008 NOAA Ernest F. Hollings Undergraduate Scholarship Program -- This competition is now closed. For details, please visit the NOAA Office of Education, Hollings Scholarship web site: http://www.oesd.noaa.gov/Hollings_info.html.
   
  Dean John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship. This competition is now closed. Visit the National Sea Grant web site for information on the current and former fellows.
   
  Aylesworth and Old Salt Student Scholarships -- This competition is now closed. The next opportunity will be the fall of 2008.
       
  Elise B. Newell Seminar Series -- Request for 2008 Proposals This competition is now closed. The next opportunity will in the fall of 2008.
       
 

Royal Caribbean Mariner of the Seas/Florida Sea Grant Scholarship -- This competition is now closed.

   
2008-09 Call for Proposals -- This competition is now closed. The next opportunity will be in January 2009.
       
Gulf of Mexico Regional Preproposals -- This competition is now closed.
       
  Gulf Oyster Industry Program. This competition is closed for preproposals. Faculty that are invited to submit full proposals should follow the guidelines in the full application package which can be found on http://www.grants.gov or http://grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=9992&mode=VIEW.
       
  Oyster Disease Research Program. This competition is closed for preproposals. Faculty that are invited to submit full proposals should follow the guidelines in the full application package which can be found on http://www.grants.gov or http://grants.gov/search/search.do?oppId=9993&mode=VIEW.
   
SG Industry Fellowships. This 2006 opportunity has been withdrawn due to inadequate federal appropriations to fund the program. Details are at http://www.seagrant.noaa.gov/.
   
 
Current Workshops and Conferences
 
Marina Hurricane Preparation Symposium - Sponsored by Boat U.S., Marine Association of Florida, Marine Association of South Florida and Association of Marine Industries, March 4-5, 2008 at the Rosen Plaza Hotel in Orlando, FL. Florida Sea Grant will once again be a sponsor of this event. Last year 150 marina operators/owners and industry affiliated with the industry were in attendance. See conference web site: More...
 
Elise B. Newell Seminar Series - Florida Sea Grant will sponsor six seminars in 2008. For information on the speakers and locations see the attached brochure.
 
Florida Marine Science Educators Association Annual Conference - April 25-27, 2008, Tampa, FL. Call for presentations ends Feb. 29. Visit web site for online registration and information. More...
 
Building Sustainable Communities for the 21st Century - Sponsored by NOAA and the Southeast Watershed Forum, August 12-14, 2008, Charleston, SC. Conference is to encourage new ways of building environmentally and economically sustainable communities in the face of growth and development pressures, drought, and threats from climate change. Call for abstracts ends March 14. More...
 
Recent Publications and Reports
 
Florida Sea Grant helps prepare Gulf anglers for new regulations
As of June 1, 2008, many Gulf anglers will have to add three items to their tackle boxes to comply with changes to state and federal regulations for fishing reef species in the Gulf of Mexico. The new rules will require commercial and recreational fisherman to carry and use circle hooks when fishing with live or cut baits, a dehooking device and a venting tool.  More...
 
Karl Havens named director of Florida Sea Grant
Karl Havens, chairman of the University of Florida’s fisheries and aquatic sciences department, has been named director of the statewide Florida Sea Grant College Program, succeeding long-time Jim Cato. More...
 
Charles Sidman named associate director for research
Charles Sidman, whose research in planning and geographic information systems has supported coastal waterway management in Florida, has been named associate director for research at Florida Sea Grant. Sidman has considerable experience working with scientists across multiple disciplines, with coastal and marine stakeholder groups, and with an array of coastal resource issues. More...
 
Steve Otwell, Seafood Specialist, Named 2007 IFAS International Fellow
Nov. 30, 2007 -- Steve Otwell, a Florida Sea Grant seafood technology specialist whose work has led to innovative and cost-effective responses to issues of seafood safety worldwide, has been selected as an International Fellow in the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS) at the University of Florida for 2007.  More...
 
Florida Sea Grant Notes and News - April 2008
New Research Projects, Knauss Fellowship, Research Associate Director, More...