New York Sea Grant (NYSG) is part of the national Sea Grant network that constitutes NOAA’s National Sea Grant College Program. It is a cooperative program between the State University of New York (SUNY) and Cornell University, with administrative offices at Stony Brook University and Cornell University, and extension offices throughout the state.
For over five decades, NYSG has supported innovative research on the State’s diverse aquatic ecosystems and habitats, both saltwater and fresh. The main goal of NYSG’s research program is to generate and provide valid scientific information and tools that further the sustainable development, use, protection, conservation, and management of New York’s coastal resources. Sea Grant research is powerful because it is informed by coastal stakeholder-defined needs and is made actionable and accessible to our stakeholders through extension and outreach.
NYSG supports research on marine, Hudson River estuary, the Great Lakes, and St. Lawrence topics and issues. Given the variety of marine, aquatic, and coastal topics covered by our grants to top-notch physical oceanographers, food scientists, benthic ecologists, aquatic toxicologists, fisheries modelers, geochemists, social scientists, and others, NYSG serves as an important resource for New Yorkers with many different interests and information needs.
NYSG works with its funded researchers to help disseminate their research results in various ways—workshops, meetings, journal articles, media coverage, periodic newsletters, website postings, social media, etc.
All current opportunities can be found at www.nyseagrant.org/proposals.
New York Sea Grant's Biennial Research Call
This is NYSG’s main call for research. It is announced every other year beginning with a request for pre-proposals. Research topics are based on meeting the goals of our strategic plan (www.nyseagrant.org/stratplan). Projects can include developmental work on new methods, models, tools, techniques, state-of-knowledge synthesis efforts, and hypothesis-driven experimental work. The proposed research must show an understanding of what constitutes necessary and sufficient information for responsible decision-making or applied use and is expected to generate actionable results. A portion of a research project’s funds may be used to support a student researcher recruited by the project lead as part of our Sea Grant Scholars Fellowship Program.
New York Sea Grant and Connecticut Sea Grant Call for Long Island Sound Research
This call is released every other year to fund research that will support the science-based management of Long Island Sound (LIS) and its resources and the implementation of the Long Island Sound Partnership (LISP) Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan (CCMP), bit.ly/LISSCCMP. The LISS is a regional, community-based partnership to protect and restore LIS. Information on the LISP can be obtained at lispartnership.org. A portion of a research project’s funds may be used to support a student researcher recruited by the project lead as part of our Sea Grant Scholars Fellowship Program.
Research Review Process
Submitted preproposals undergo a rigorous review and top-ranked are encouraged to submit full proposals. Full proposals are evaluated by mail peer review followed by a technical review panel. The highest rated proposals given the funding available are selected to be supported. NYSG research and grant-making policies require the awardee institution to commit, and eventually document, matching funds equivalent to 50% of the Sea Grant funds received.
Research Opportunities E-List
To receive an announcement when the next call is released, sign up for our RFP Announcement List. This list provides timely announcements of RFP and related opportunities released by New York Sea Grant and other funding agencies. This is a low-volume non-discussion distribution list that sends out announcements of RFPs and related opportunities of interest to researchers in New York State. To be added to the list, fill out the request form: bit.ly/nysgrfpelist.