Coastal and Natural Resource Management

Coastal and Natural Resource Management

The Coastal and Natural Resource Management category provides funding links to Web sites focusing on coastal hazards, habitat restoration, water quality, watershed protection, and other natural resource protection issues.

Additional NOAA Funding

• The National Sea Grant Program encourages the wise stewardship of our marine resources through research, education, outreach and technology transfer. The National Sea Grant Program sponsors a variety of marine research through the Sea Grant College Programs and through its National Strategic Investments.
• The National Undersea Research Program funds oceanography done by scientists who enter the oceans using scuba, robots and submarines. National Undersea Research Program (NURP) researchers explore, sample and live beneath the sea. They study a range of environmental problems and science, from beach erosion to deep sea volcanoes.
• NOAA's National Ocean Service and National Marine Fisheries Service, in cooperation with Restore America's Estuaries, developed A National Strategy to Restore Coastal and Estuarine Habitat and funding opportunities.
• NOAA's Center for Sponsored Coastal Ocean Research, part of the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, provides scientific information to assist decision makers in meeting the challenges of managing the nation's coastal resources. Through its funding opportunities, the Coastal Ocean Program is making significant strides toward finding the solutions that will protect coastal resources and ensure their availability and well-being for future generations.
• The NOAA Restoration Center has developed the Community-Based Restoration Program Web page to disseminate information about grant opportunities offered through its funding partnerships. Grant opportunities are posted, on an ongoing basis, as partnerships are developed and funding becomes available.
• The Climate Program Office was established in October 2005 to oversee the agency's climate portfolio and to manage the competitive research program that funds high-priority science to advance the understanding and prediction of the Earth system and associated climate processes. CPO also supports multi-disciplinary research and assessments designed to foster the effective use of climate information for informed decision making.
• The Office of Sustainable Fisheries's Financial Services Division administers several financial assistance programs for United States commercial fishermen and other eligible citizens and entities. Specifically, the Financial Services Division manages a national financial assistance program in the form of direct loans, a tax-deferred capital construction fund, and vessel and gear loss and damage compensation programs. In addition, the Financial Services Division administers the Saltonstall-Kennedy Grant Program.

Other Federal Agency Funding

• The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) identifies federal grants that may be used at the local level to support watershed projects, including coastal waters, conservation, and pollution prevention. This resource also references other funding and technical assistance programs.
• The Environmental Protection Agency’s National Center for Environmental Research supports high-quality research by the nation's leading scientists that will improve the scientific basis for decisions on national environmental issues and help EPA achieve its goals. The agency competitively funds research grants and graduate fellowships in numerous environmental science and engineering disciplines.
• The Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) provides grants to states and local governments to implement long-term hazard mitigation measures after a major disaster declaration.
• FEMA Pre-Disaster Mitigation Program provides grants to the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa for state and local (including Native American governments) hazard mitigation planning.
• The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) identifies a wide range of agriculture-related competitive federal grant programs.
• The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) works to protect, manage, and restore habitat by providing grants, financial assistance, technical assistance, and partnerships. This Web site is a portal to many FWS grants: coastal, wetland conservation, endangered species, sport fish and wildlife conservation, bird habitat conservation, neotropical migratory bird conservation, and even grants to private land owners for habitat conservation.