Proposals sought for SEANET research mini-grants
The Sustainable Ecological Aquaculture Network (SEANET) program invites proposals for research mini-grants that will result in projects that create industry/academic partnerships and contribute to the performance metrics of the SEANET/EPSCoR program and the National Science Foundation.
Proposals may be submitted by principal investigators from academic institutions, governmental agencies, aquaculture-related industries or nonprofit research institutions. It is expected that the collaborators will work together to identify a research problem driven by policy or industry needs.
Priority will be given to projects that directly relate to aquaculture in Washington County and, ideally, coordinate with SEANET’s 2018 buoy deployment in Machias and Cobscook bays.
Example topics include aquaculture siting for sea vegetable species Down East, ocean acidification effects on soft-shell clam seeding in the intertidal, and Down East aquaculture coops models.
Other aquaculture-related research will be considered. Applicants should discuss their idea with Deborah Bouchard, the SEANET research director, or Meggan Dwyer, research coordinator.
More information, including an application, is online.