Science Serving Americas Coasts

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• Science Serving Americas Coasts

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Creation
Why not do for the cultivation of the oceans
what wise men did for the land a century ago?
Why not have Sea Grant Colleges?
- Athelstan Spilhaus, 1963
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Legislative Mandate

• Reauthorization (P.L. 107-299)
• Signed into Law, November 26th, 2002
• Authorized amounts 2004-2008 90M 100M
• Emphasis on merit/competition
• Inter/intra agency coordination
• Strategic planning
• Sea Grant stays in NOAA in present
  form

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Mission

• Sea Grants mission is to enhance the practical
  use conservation of coastal, marine and Great
  Lakes resources to create a sustainable economy
  environment

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What is Sea Grant?

• The National Sea Grant College Program is a
• federal-university partnership program

States Industry 300 partner institutions
30 university-based programs
National Sea Grant Review Panel
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What is Sea Grant?
30 Sea Grant colleges institutions conducting
integrated research, education outreach
research education outreach
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Sea Grant Support

• Sea Grant has been virtually the only source of
  funding in the U.S. for marine policy research
  and a major contributor to the fields of marine
  aquaculture, coastal and estuarine research,
  marine fisheries management, seafood safety,
  marine biotechnology, marine engineering and
  coastal technology development.
• -National Research
  Council, 1994

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How does Sea Grant work?

• NOAA National Sea Grant Office
• Grants to 30 Sea Grant Programs
• Oversees program review process
• National Strategic Investments (funding
  competition)
• Knauss Fellowship program
• Sea Grant Association
• A non-profit org. whose members participate in SG
  programs
• Mechanism for programs to coordinate activities,
  to set regional national priorities and to
  provide a unified voice for these institutions on
  issues of importance to the oceans and coasts

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How does Sea Grant work?

• National Sea Grant Review Panel
• Functional advisory committee appointed by
  Secretary of Commerce
• Studies and Reviews Sea Grant Community/Operations
  
• Program reviews based on four criteria
• Effective Planning
• Organizing for Success
• Producing Significant Results
• Connecting with Users
• Recommend Sea Grant College status to Secretary
  of Commerce

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How does Sea Grant work?
Sea Grant provides the science for management
decisions Sea Grant is a bridge between
government, academia, industry, scientists and
citizens
research education outreach
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The Sea Grant Network Includes
In no particular order

• Law Center
• Webmasters
• Researchers
• Ports and Harbors
• Research Coordinators
• Associate/Assistant Directors

Directors Communicators Educators Extension
Staff Fiscal Officers
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SG Outreach Philosophy Approach
Outreach Activities that extend Sea Grant and
other relevant coastal and marine
information to people Goal Affect change
through science based information Communications
Provides the expertise and mechanisms to
reach people with marine information Education
Educating the 21st century workforce toward
literacy in marine and aquatic science Extension
Activities that affect behavior change through
constituent driven programs focused on
outcome-based objectives using educational
processes and techniques over time
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Sea Grants Outreach Infrastructure
300 extension staff/specialists 25 marine
education specialists 70 Communications
specialists

• Asset value to NOAA
• Awareness utilization NOAA products
  services
• Access to state and local outreach
  infrastructure
• Access to and support from important coastal
  constituencies at state and local levels
• Identify new programs products that could
  be provided by NOAA

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Communications

• Network communications professionals work closely
  with researchers, educators and extension agents
  to provide constituents with accurate and timely
  information based on coastal and marine issues
  and Sea Grant projects in the form of
  newsletters, brochures, books, posters, fact
  sheets, news releases, and through the web.
• These professionals also develop Sea Grants
  outreach products through videos, CD-roms, public
  programs, conferences, radio and television
  broadcasts, and displays.

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Publications

• A total of 4,500 titles were received by the Sea
  Grant Depository 1997-2001
• Journal Reprints 3,692 Tech. Reports 3,540
• Extension Reports 2,814 A-V 229
• Newsletters 1,274 Educational 554
• Theses/Dissertations 1,968 Electronic Pub 18
• Proceedings 930 Maps 134
• Books/Monographs 168 Computer Pro. 15
• Handbooks 635 Surveys 87
• Bibliographies/Direct. 947

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Education
Sea Grants vision for education is to provide
national leadership in the development of
well-prepared professionals who understand marine
and aquatic science and research, and to be a
leader in enhancing marine literacy from cradle
to grave.
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Education

• Education contact in every SG Program though few
  of these contacts devote all of their efforts to
  education.
• The Sea Grant Educators Network (SGEN) recently
  organized into a formal group with representation
  on the SGA, Review Panel, Communicators network,
  and Assembly of extension program leaders.
• The SGEN is active on Theme Teams, particularly
  the Marine and Aquatic Science Literacy Theme
  Team.
• The SGEN as a group and as individuals are very
  active nationally in professional organizations
  (NMEA) and national initiatives (COSEE,
  Commission on ocean policy, Pew Oceans
  commission, CORE, NOSB, NOPP).

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Extension

• To provide an effective, two way communication
  between the users and producers of knowledge
• Communicate the results of scientific research to
  those who will apply them
• Communicate problems and needs of these user
  groups to SG researchers
• Practical mechanism for getting useful
  information out of the laboratories and
  scientific journals into the hands of those who
  can use it

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Fiscal Officers

• Responsible for delivery of financial
  administrative information to pertinent groups
  institutions at the local, state, regional
  national levels in support of the Sea Grant
  mission.
• Proposal/budget/contract review/preparation.
• Lead authority for all budgetary financial
  matters pertaining to state Sea Grant Program.
• Programmatic business management accounting
  reporting.

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Sea Grant Law Center
Founded in 2002 to disseminate information about
marine laws and policies, coordinate ocean and
coastal law researchers, and provide the Sea
Grant Community with a source of critical
analysis of marine laws and policies. Legal
Programs Researchers Exist Across the SG
Community Louisiana Sea Grant Legal
Program Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant
Legal Program North Carolina Law and
Policy Specialist Sources of Information Legal
Experts, Law and Policy Reporters, conferences
and meetings.
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Research Coordinators Associate/ Assistant
Directors

• Overlapping but not identical groups
• Some programs, the Director fulfills these roles
  
• Roles, but not titles, similar across programs
• Research Coordinators have research program
  responsibilities
• Develop distribute research RFPs
• Handle peer review process
• Track research progress / results /
  accomplishments
• Interface with others for outreach efforts

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Research Coordinators Associate/ Assistant
Directors

• Research Coordinators can often be a SG
  program's
• Contact with research faculty
• Bridge between extension staff researchers
• Link for communicators to research information
• Coordinator with fiscal officers re research
  grant administration
• ADs may have different functions (e.g., focus on
  research, extension, communications, education,
  fiscal, and/or overall program management)

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Webmasters

• Newest quasi-official group within Sea Grant, and
  part of the Communicators group
• Create and maintain Sea Grant's presence on the
  World Wide Web
• Many provide other technical support for their
  programs

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Sea Grants Niche

• Sea Grant tells you what you need to know
• Research is based on urgent needs of coastal
  managers
• Place-based science
• Sea Grant gets information to users
• Outreach network puts research results to use
• Sea Grant is well respected consistent
• Permanent, full-time extension agents on the
• docks beaches - trusted by coastal
  residents
• and businesses
• Long term investments, continuity local
  ownership

research education outreach
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Sea Grant Citizens
Sea Grant Citizens

• Sea Grant helps citizens make use of current
  scientific knowledge in their everyday activities

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Sea Grant Funding

• Funding provided by appropriation from Congress
  to NOAA National Sea Grant Office
• All federal money is matched (21) and leveraged
• Each SG College calls for proposals to address
  needs of state proposals are peer-reviewed and
  competitively selected
• Sea Grant programs receive 58 of their support
  from NOAA. The remainder comes from state
  appropriations, private sources, local
  governments, industry, and other federal
  agenciesgrants and contracts

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Sea Grant Authorized Funding

• FY 2003 60 mil
• FY 2004 75 mil
• FY 2005 77.5 mil
• FY 2006 80 mil
• FY 2007 82.5 mil
• FY 2008 85 mil

Competitive Grants 5 mil Zebra mussels ANS 5
mil Oyster diseases, restoration, human
health risks 5 mil Harmful algal blooms 3 mil
Fisheries extension
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What is a Theme Team?
Group of SG experts from across the country who
are collaborating on a particular topic. Results
of regional research projects in each area
contribute to a national pool of cutting edge
knowledge and capabilities. YOU CAN
PARTICIPATE, TOO!
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Theme Teams

• Sea Grant brings together people and the sea
• Biotechnology
• Digital Oceans
• Aquaculture
• Fisheries
• Coastal Hazards
• Seafood Science Safety
• Marine and Aquatic Science Literacy
• Coastal Communities
• Ecosystems, Habitats Water Quality
• Urban Coasts

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Purpose Theme Teams
Help organize Sea Grant activities under common
areas of interest Serve as a method for
synthesizing thematic area efforts on a national
scale Create opportunities and new directions
for national and regional initiatives and
strategic investments Catalyze cooperative
efforts among Sea Grant programs, between
individual programs and the National Sea Grant
Office (NSGO), and between the NSGO and National
Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
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Purpose Theme Teams
Opportunities for cooperative ventures with
other agencies Focus the flow of funds to
high-impact areas Accommodate
interdisciplinary research Forum to organize
SG extension, communications, education
research efforts on a national scale Mechanism
to further solidify Sea Grant's local, regional
and national identity and elevate its
visibility Provide a strategically useful
method for providing information to policymakers,
and Provide information for strategic planning.
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Sea Grant Biotechnology

• Sea Grant led the first systematic research
  effort in the US to develop new drugs from marine
  organisms
• Over 1000 new compounds are now in the pipeline
  with the potential to be new anticancer drugs and
  antibiotics

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Sea Grant Fisheries

• Sea Grant taught marine safety to over 4,000
  fishermen in Alaska - fatalities have been
  reduced by 50 over ten years
• Sea Grant helped save the Puget Sound sockeye
  salmon fishery from closure through modification
  of fishing gear and practice

A volunteer jumps in frigid Lake Superior in a
Sea Grant study on how long people can survive in
icy water.
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Sea Grant Coastal Hazards

• In North Carolina, 200 of the 205 oceanfront
  houses built to Sea Grant standards survived
  Hurricane Fran more than 500 older houses were
  destroyed

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Sea Grant Seafood Safety

• Sea Grant has provided education and training to
  over 5,000 seafood processing plants on FDA
  regulations -resulting in 20,000 to 60,000 fewer
  seafood-related illnesses a year and saving 115
  million annually

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Sea Grant is Competitive

• 2001/2002 biennium, 286 of 1,175 proposals
  (24) were selected for funding.
• Of the 320 principal investigators for state Sea
  Grant research projects in FY 2002, only 93 also
  were principal investigators in FY1999, turnover
  of 71.
• Of the 75M in Federal and matching funds awarded
  by state Sea Grant programs in FY 2002, about
  33M, or 44, was awarded competitively.

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National Strategic Investments
FY 2002 / 2003

• Environmental Biotechnology (2.8M)
• Fisheries Habitat (2.0M)
• Aquatic Nuisance Species (2.8M)
• Aquaculture (6.6M for FY 2001/2002)
• Technology (1.8M)
• Oyster Disease (4.0M)
• Gulf Oyster Initiative (2.0M)
• Fellowships (3.2M)
• Knauss Marine Policy (2.2M)
• Sea Grant / Industry (0.3M)
• Sea Grant / NMFS Marine Resource Economics and
  Population Dynamics (0.7M)

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Partnerships
SG has many, thus this list is only a sample!

• State Governments
• Universities
• CORE, Ocean Science Bowl
• American Fisheries Society

NOAA NSF, COSEE NASA, Space Grant EPA, NEP
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What Can YOU Do for SG?

• Ambassador for Sea Grant concept
• Always present unbiased, science based
  information
• DO NOT let personal bias taint work products

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Contact Information
National Sea Grant College Program- Review
Panel- National Office Staff 1315 East-West
Highway R/SGSilver Spring, MD 20910(301)
713-2431 Nikola GarberNikola.Garber_at_noaa.gov www.
nsgo.seagrant.org

• Jennifer M. Greenamoyer, External Affairs
  Director1755 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Suite
  800Washington, DC 20036-2102202.448.1240
  p.202.448.1241 f.jgreenamoyer_at_sga.seagrant.org

www.sga.seagrant.org
Robert R. Stickney, President2700 Earl Rudder
Fwy South, Suite 1800College Station, TX
77845979.845.3854 p.979.845.7525
f. stickney_at_tamu.edu
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Thank You and Welcome to Sea Grant!