Collaborative Chats: Successful Research Partnerships in the Lobster Industry

Please join Maine Sea Grant and our regional partners for a third season of the Collaborative Chats webinar series! The goal of the series is to highlight collaborative research efforts in the lobster industry. This season will feature ongoing projects funded through the Sea Grant American Lobster Initiative that showcase the diversity and breadth of partners involved with the collaborative network.

• Jesica Waller (Director, Division of Biological Monitoring & Assessment, ME DMR), Fraser Clark (Assistant Professor, Dalhousie University), and Marianna Rampaul (Graduate student, Dalhousie University), Developing non-invasive female maturity assessment methods for the American lobster on Thursday, January 12, at 1:00 pm

All webinars will be hosted by Maine Sea Grant using Zoom, and live closed captioning will be provided.

• Join using a computer with this Zoom meeting link, and password: 931345
• More information on the Maine Sea Grant Events page

For those who cannot attend, all sessions will be recorded and shared online following each event.

For more information, please email Amalia Harrington at amalia.harrington@maine.edu, or call (207) 581-1440. All are welcome and we hope to see you there!

February 3 – 4, 2023 

The Lobster Institute’s U.S. – Canada Lobster Town Meeting, Portland, Maine

• Learn more about the event, how to register, and secure lodging using this link.  For more information, contact Chris Cash at: christina.cash@maine.edu or (207) 581-1443.

February 6 – 8, 2023

Sea Grant American Lobster Initiative: Regional Lobster Research and Outreach Summit, Portland, Maine

• Please fill out this linked form, which serves as a save-the-date and a request for session proposals by December 16, 2022. For more information, contact Amalia Harrington at: amalia.harrington@maine.edu or (207) 581-1440

March 2 – 4, 2023

Maine Fishermen’s Forum, Rockport, Maine

Use this link to learn more about the forum.  For more information, contact Chilloa Young at (207) 442-7700.

March 23 – 26, 2023

Massachusetts Lobstermen’s Association Annual Weekend & Industry Trade Show, Hyannis, Massachusetts

Use this link to learn more or contact Beth Casoni at:  beth.casoni@lobstermen.com or call 781-545-6984 xt. 1

In 2016, the National Science Foundation (NSF) unveiled a set of “Big Ideas,” 10 bold, long-term research and process ideas that identify areas for future investment at the frontiers of science and engineering. The Big Ideas represent unique opportunities to position our Nation at the cutting edge of global science and engineering leadership by bringing together diverse disciplinary perspectives to support convergence research. As such, even though proposals must be submitted to the Directorate for Geosciences when responding to this solicitation, once received, the proposals will be managed by a cross-Directorate team of NSF Program Directors.

Arctic temperatures are warming faster than nearly everywhere else on Earth, with some models projecting that continued warming could produce an ice-free Arctic Ocean in a few decades. The 6^th Assessment Report from Working Group 1 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change highlighted the consequences of this warming, including the loss of mass from the Greenland Ice Sheet, lengthening fire seasons, increasing extreme heat events, thinning and loss of Arctic sea ice, threat of ocean acidification, and reductions in spring snow cover. The rapid and wide-scale changes occurring in response to this warming portend new opportunities and unprecedented risks to natural environments; social and cultural systems; economic, political and legal systems; and built environments of the Arctic and across the globe. Gaps in scientific observations and the prevalence of interdependent social, natural, and built systems in the Arctic make it challenging to predict the region’s future. Understanding and adapting to a changing Arctic requires creative new directions for Arctic-related research, education, workforce development, and leveraging of science, engineering, and technology advances from outside the Arctic.

Navigating the New Arctic (NNA) embodies an important forward-looking response by the Foundation to these profound challenges. NNA seeks innovations in fundamental convergence research across the social, natural, environmental, computing and information sciences, and engineering that address the interactions or connections among natural and built environments and social systems, and how these connections inform our understanding of Arctic change and its local and global effects.

This solicitation requests proposals that fall within one of three tracks: NNA Incubator Grants, dedicated to developing convergent teams to carry out research projects of larger scope in the future; NNA Research Grants, aimed to support creative projects on fundamental research that address convergent scientific and engineering challenges related to the rapidly changing Arctic; and NNA Collaboratory Grants, designed to support collaborative teams undertaking research and training initiatives addressing grand challenges related to the rapidly changing New Arctic.

Deadline Date
February 8, 2023

Review full program guidelines and learn how to submit a proposal in the latest solicitation.