Welcome to the Knauss Fellowship Blog!

May 2, 2019

The Sea Grant Knauss Fellowship is a one-year paid immersive policy experience that provides a unique educational and professional experience to graduate students, but what does that mean? Who are Knauss Fellows and what do they do?

The Knauss Fellowship Blog provides a window in the world of the Knauss Fellowship and is a space for Knauss Fellows to share their unique perspectives and experiences as Knauss Fellows. They will discuss topics ranging from their science, to the Knauss Fellowship application process or their current position.

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Arctic seascape with scattered icebergs, rocky shoreline, and distant snow-capped mountains under a partly cloudy sky, as the ice begins to melt in the warming sun.

Alaska

Expanding and Connecting Tribal-Led Climate Change Capacity To Serve Indigenous Community Needs In Alaska

As winter ice melts along the Alaska shoreline, revealing mud and water, snowmelt floods threaten property and lives. The rising waters from thawing snow can

Sea Grant announces new projects to address community needs regarding contaminants of emerging concern

Gavin Dehnert, an Emerging Contaminants Scientist at Wisconsin Sea Grant, investigates the impact of emerging contaminants on aquatic ecosystems. (Photo Credit: Wisconsin Sea Grant.) Coastal

Sea Grant’s American Lobster Initiative awards $5.4 million to further innovative research and outreach in support of the lobster industry and fishing communities

Since 2019, Sea Grant’s American Lobster Initiative has addressed critical knowledge gaps about the American lobster and its fishery facing a dynamic and changing environment. The Initiative supports a regional extension program in the Northeast and a national research competition. Fifteen emerging research projects were selected in 2023 and 2024 for $4.6 million in federal funding by the NOAA National Sea Grant College Program. Coordinated by Maine Sea Grant since 2019, the Northeast lobster extension program was recently renewed with an $840,000 federal award that supports work through 2026.