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Coastal and Natural Resource
Management
The Coastal and Natural Resource Management category provides funding links to Web sites focusing on coastal hazards, habitat restoration, water quality, watershed protection, and other natural resource protection issues. These links are organized in three groups:
Additional NOAA Funding | Other
Federal Agency Funding | Nonprofit Funding
Additional NOAA Funding
- The National
Sea Grant Program encourages the wise stewardship of our marine resources
through research, education, outreach and technology transfer. The National Sea
Grant Program sponsors a variety of marine research through the Sea Grant College
Programs and through its National Strategic Investments.
- The National
Undersea Research Program funds oceanography done by scientists who enter
the oceans using scuba, robots and submarines. National Undersea Research Program
(NURP) researchers explore, sample and live beneath the sea. They study a range
of environmental problems and science, from beach erosion to deep sea volcanoes.
- NOAA's National Ocean Service and National Marine Fisheries Service, in cooperation
with Restore America's Estuaries, developed A
National Strategy to Restore Coastal and Estuarine Habitat and funding opportunities.
- NOAA's Center
for Sponsored Coastal Ocean Research / Coastal Ocean Program, part of the
National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, provides scientific information to
assist decision makers in meeting the challenges of managing the nation's coastal
resources. Through its funding opportunities, the Coastal Ocean Program is making
significant strides toward finding the solutions that will protect coastal resources
and ensure their availability and well-being for future generations.
- The NOAA Restoration Center has developed the Community-Based
Restoration Program Web page to disseminate information about
grant opportunities offered through its funding partnerships. Grant
opportunities are posted, on an ongoing basis, as partnerships are
developed and funding becomes available.
- The Office
of Global Programs leads the NOAA Climate and Global Change Program. Office
of Global Programs assists NOAA by sponsoring focused scientific research aimed
at understanding climate variability and its predictability. Through studies in
these areas, researchers coordinate activities that jointly contribute to improved
predictions and assessments of climate variability over a continuum of timescales
from season to season, year to year, and over the course of a decade and beyond.
- The Office
of Sustainable Fisheries's Financial Services Division administers several
financial assistance programs for United States commercial fishermen and
other
eligible citizens and entities. Specifically, the Financial Services Division
manages a national financial assistance program in the form of direct loans,
a
tax-deferred capital construction fund, and vessel and gear loss and damage compensation
programs. In addition, the Financial Services Division administers the Saltonstall-Kennedy
Grant Program.
Other Federal Agency Funding
- The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 1999 Catalog of Federal Funding Sources for Watershed
Protection is a searchable database. The database highlights federal grants and loans that may be used at the local
level to support watershed projects, including coastal waters, conservation, and
pollution prevention, and contains references to other publications and Web sites
on funding and technical assistance.
- The Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) National Center for Environmental Research's mission
is to support high-quality research by the nation's leading scientists that will
improve the scientific basis for decisions on national environmental issues and
help EPA achieve its goals. The Science to Achieve Results (STAR) program supports
this mission by competitively funding research grants and graduate fellowships
in numerous environmental science and engineering disciplines. There are four
formal solicitation periods during the year: January, April, August, and October.
- The EPA
National Estuary Program (NEP) Funding Mechanisms Web page contains information
about the EPA's Environmental Finance Program, funding wetland protection through
the Clean Water state revolving fund, and funding for nonpoint source/estuary
enhancement projects.
- EPA's Office
of Air and Radiation's funding database provides various funding opportunities
to improve the nation's air quality. Funding opportunities range from climate
related items to smart growth to retrofitting vehicles.
- EPA's Office of Water has various programs to improve the
nation's water quality. Through the
Environmental Assessment and Coastal Health Act of 2000, funding
is available to eligible states to develop programs to monitor water
quality at their beaches and to notify the public when water quality
problems are detected. Other
funding sources available from the EPA's Office
of Water include wetland protection grants, nonpoint source pollution
grants, and many others.
- The Federal
Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP)
provides grants to states and local governments to implement long-term hazard
mitigation measures after a major disaster declaration.
- FEMA Pre-Disaster
Mitigation Program provides grants to the 50 states, the District of Columbia,
Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa for state and local
(including Native American governments) hazard mitigation planning.
- The
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Grant Program is a private, nonprofit,
501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization, established by Congress to address environmental
education, natural resource management, habitat protection and restoration, and
conservation policy development. The foundation creates partnerships between the
public and private sectors to offer such grant programs as the Chesapeake Bay
Small Watershed, Community Salmon Fund, Coral Reef Conservation, Five Star Restoration
Challenge, Gulf Conservation Challenge, International Sea Turtle Conservation,
Pacific Grassroots Salmon Initiative, Shell Marine Habitat Program, the Pathways
to Nature Conservation Fund, and many more.
- The U.S.
Department of Agriculture (USDA) Water Quality Information Center Funding Sources
for Water Quality Web page contains links to many federal grant opportunities
including those from the Department of Interior (Bureau of Reclamation, Fish &
Wildlife Service, and U.S. Geological Service), the Environmental Protection Agency,
and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
- The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) works to protect, manage, and restore
habitat by providing grants, financial assistance, technical assistance,
and partnerships. This Web site is a portal
to many FWS grants: coastal, wetland conservation, endangered
species, sport fish and wildlife conservation, bird habitat conservation,
neotropical migratory bird conservation, and even grants to private
land owners for habitat conservation.
Nonprofit Funding
- The Community-Based
Collaboratives Research Consortium (CBCRC) is a network of researchers, mediators
and facilitators, government agencies, community groups, and environmental groups
that wants to assess local and collaborative efforts involving natural resources
and community development. CBCRC provides a venue and funding for sharing research,
case studies, stewardship issues, and policy outcomes that concern community-based
collaborative processes.
- The Project
AWARE Foundation is a nonprofit organization committed to conserving and preserving
the aquatic environment and its resources. The foundation's grant program operates
on a quarterly funding cycle and supports worthwhile aquatic conservation projects.
Funding for the program comes directly from contributions made by divers and nondivers.
- Restore America's
Estuaries (RAE) is a nonprofit organization that works to preserve
the nation's network of estuaries by protecting and restoring the
lands and waters essential to the richness and diversity of coastal
life. RAE provides funding assistance in two ways: through grants
jointly funded with NOAA's Community Restoration Center, and by providing
information on often hidden funds through the free, downloadable guide,
Funding for Habitat Restoration Projects: A Citizen's Guide.
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