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, gold standard scientific research on New York’s varied marine and freshwater ecosystems and habitats, coastal communities, and economies. The purpose 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 varied interests and information needs.
NYSG extension staff specialists work with funded researchers to help disseminate their research results in various ways—workshops, meetings, journal articles, media coverage, periodic newsletters, website postings, social media, etc.
NYSG conducts two regular biennial research calls (described below). In addition, NYSG occasionally participates in other special research calls as they become available.
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 for this research call can include natural and/or social scientific endeavors with explicit and testable hypotheses that strive to answer “why” and “how” questions. Proposals that focus primarily on developmental work on new methods, models, tools, techniques, and state-of-knowledge synthesis efforts must also be hypothesis-driven. 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 successful Sea Grant project will provide information or tools that will assist resource managers, communities, and other constituents in making decisions or plans regarding coastal resources and environments. 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 LISP is a regional, community-based partnership to protect and restore the LIS. Information on the LISP can be obtained at lispartnership.org.
Research Opportunities E-List
To receive an announcement when the next call is released, sign up for our RFP Announcement List. This is a low-volume non-discussion distribution list that sends out timely announcements of RFPs and related opportunities of interest to researchers in New York State released by NYSG and other funding entities. To be added to the list, fill out the request form: bit.ly/nysgrfpelist.