Hello,
The NCCOS Center for Sponsored Coastal Ocean Research at NOAA's National
Ocean Service (NOS) has announced a funding competition under their
Prevention, Control, and Mitigation of Harmful Algal Blooms (PCM HAB)
Program
(http://www.cop.noaa.gov/stressors/extremeevents/hab/default.aspx). The
RFP is attached (.pdf) or you can go to:
http://www.cop.noaa.gov/news/fs/funding2011.aspx . If you know of anyone
who might be interested in this RFP, please forward the announcement
along to them. The goals of PCM HAB are as follows:
1. Develop and make widely available new socially and environmentally
acceptable strategies and methods for preventing, controlling, and
mitigating HABs and their impacts; and
2. Assess the social and economic costs of HAB events and the costs
and benefits of prevention, control, and mitigation to guide
future research and aid in the selection of the most appropriate
management strategies and methods.
More specifically, related to the social and economic sciences, the
program seeks to enhance HAB response and ensure socially responsible
development and effective
implementation of prevention, control and mitigation by:
* Measuring social and economic costs of HABs and their impacts,
and the costs and benefits of HAB PCM
* Improving communication strategies and approaches for
facilitating changes in human behavior/attitudes
* Improving coordination of researchers, decision-makers, and
stakeholders in implementing PCM research.
Letters of intent must be received by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on August
16, 2010, and should be submitted by email to [email protected]. If
you have questions about the RFP or program, please contact Dr. Quay
Dortch, Ecology and Oceanography of Harmful Algal Blooms (ECOHAB)
Program Program Coordinator, by phone at 301-713-3338 ext 157 or by
email at [email protected] .
Best,
Theresa
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Theresa L. Goedeke, PhD
Social Scientist
Biogeography Branch
Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment
NCCOS NOS NOAA
Building SSMC4, Rm 9247
1305 East-West Highway
Silver Spring, MD 20910
Email: [email protected]
Ph: 301-713-3028 x 237
Note: The contents of this message are mine personally and do not necessarily
reflect any position of NOAA.
