Deadline approaching for Community Partnership Development Grant funding opportunity

Graduate interns learn from subsistence harvesters on an interdisciplinary project in Tyonek, ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ, combining traditional knowledge and genetics to understand the migration patterns of Chinook salmon.
Photo courtesy of Davin Holen
Graduate interns learn from subsistence harvesters on an interdisciplinary project in Tyonek, ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ, combining traditional knowledge and genetics to understand migration patterns of Chinook salmon.

ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Sea Grant invites proposals for seed grants to support the planning of community-based research partnerships and engagement of communities on research teams.

The goal of this Request for Proposals is to prepare community-academic partnerships to successfully collaborate on the design of research projects related to improving understanding and management of ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ’s coastal and marine ecosystems. These grants will not fund research, but aim to strengthen community-academic partnerships for future research.

Proposals may request up to $20,000 and projects should occur July 1, 2024 – Jan. 31, 2025.

Deadline to apply: May 28, 2024

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