Sea Grant to lead special issue of Oceanography

June 24, 2023

The Sea Grant network, with support from the National Sea Grant Office, will lead a special issue of Oceanography, a quarterly journal of The Oceanography Society. The special issue is planned to be released in Spring 2024.

The goals of this special issue are to highlight Sea Grant’s role in building healthy, resilient, and sustainable coastal and Great Lakes environments and economies, call attention to Sea Grant’s success in workforce and economic development, offer strategies for translating research into applications, summarize ways in which researchers can build meaningful partnerships with communities, and highlight the integration of traditional and local knowledge and/or diversity, equity, inclusion, justice and accessibility into scientific research, education, outreach and collaboration.

Sea Grant’s feature in Volume 37 of Oceanography is led by guest editors Mike Allen, Mona Behl, Rebecca Briggs, Kristen Fussell, Brita Jessen, Sarah Kolesar, Ian Miller and Stephanie Otts, with contributions from staff throughout the Sea Grant network.

More information on upcoming Oceanography issues is available here.

Oceanography is published four times a year in online and paper format and contains peer-reviewed articles that chronicle all aspects of ocean science and its applications.

Academia to Government

Sea Grant welcomes 2025 Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship finalists

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Sea Grant College Program is thrilled to announce the finalists for the 2025 class of the Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship. This year, for the first time in program history, all eligible Sea Grant programs are represented by a diverse cohort of 88 early-career professionals who will spend the next year working alongside federal agencies or legislative offices in Washington, D.C., applying their academic expertise to critical marine, coastal and Great Lakes policy issues.

Sea Grant & Weather Program Office award $1.5 million for community flooding social science liaisons as part of the Biden-Harris administration’s $22.78 million investment to help communities better prepare for water-related climate impacts

Today, the Department of Commerce and NOAA announced the award of $22.78 million in funding to NOAA labs, programs, cooperative institutes and other research partners to advance research on a wide range of water-driven climate impacts. Research topics include coastal and inland flood and inundation mapping and forecasting, and next-generation water modeling activities, including modernized precipitation frequency studies.

These funds from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law will help communities prepare for a range of climate impacts and will directly benefit policymakers, emergency responders, researchers and the general public.

Sea Grant and NOAA Fisheries Announce 2024 Joint Fellowship Program Awardees

Sea Grant and NOAA Fisheries are excited to announce the 2024 National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS)-Sea Grant Joint Fellowship recipients. This year, seven population dynamics fellows and three marine resource economics fellows will embark on critical fisheries research with support through this national program.