Funding | Partnerships
Partnerships
NOAA's Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management (OCRM) fosters and maintains several effective partnerships to enhance coastal management. Many of these partnership provide funding for coastal management activities.
Cooperative Institute for Coastal and Estuarine Environmental Technology
The University of New Hampshire and NOAA formed the Cooperative Institute for Coastal and Estuarine Environmental Technology in 1997. CICEET supports research and innovative technologies that have the potential to address many of the current issues facing our coasts and estuaries. CICEET funds research, fosters collaboration and facilities technology transfer through synthesis, integration, training and the development of new management tools.
Coastal Community Development Partnership
NOAA and the Environmental Protection Agency formed a Coastal Community Development Partnership in January 2005. This partnership assists communities that pursue innovative development in the coastal zone. The partnership provides training, policy analysis, assessments of local development rules and access to technical assistance to assist local governments, officials and other community stakeholders in planning for their future. In Fiscal Years 2005 and 2006, the program awarded grants to support projects in three coastal communities. The projects brought together teams of national experts to work with communities and Sea Grant extension personnel to address community-identified needs for land use policy assistance. The Coastal Community Development Partnership hopes to provide additional funding opportunities in the future if funds are available.
Coral Reef Partnership
NOAA co-chairs the U.S. Coral Reef Task Force with the Department of the Interior. The Task Force is a body composed of 12 Federal agencies, seven U.S. states and territories, and three freely associated states. The Task Force provides a forum for coordinated planning and action in support of coral reef conservation.
OCRM coordinates the work of NOAA’s Coral Reef Conservation Program (CRCP), which supports effective management and sound science to preserve, sustain and restore valuable coral reef ecosystems. The CRCP is an intra-NOAA partnership among the four NOAA Line Offices working on coral reef issues: National Ocean Service (NOS), National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) and National Environmental Satellites, Data and Information Service (NESDIS). Links to NOAA offices that are part of the CRCP can be found in the CoRIS library.