Opportunity Information: Apply for M17AS00001
The BOEM FY 2017 Alaska Coastal Marine Institute (CMI) opportunity is a discretionary federal funding announcement from the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), issued under CFDA 15.421. BOEM is offering support through a cooperative agreement mechanism, meaning awardees should expect substantial involvement or collaboration from the federal agency during the project period rather than a hands-off grant structure. The program sits within BOEMs Environmental Studies Program and is framed around generating applied scientific information that helps the public interest goals of safe, environmentally responsible offshore energy and mineral development on the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf (OCS).
Eligibility is limited to public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, and more specifically to units within the University of Alaska system operating through the Alaska Coastal Marine Institute. In practice, this makes it a targeted research solicitation aimed at tapping University of Alaska capacity to address BOEM priority information needs. The research BOEM is looking to fund is broad in method but specific in purpose: improving understanding of marine, coastal, and human environments that are affected, or could be affected, by offshore oil and gas activities or other offshore mineral exploration and extraction. Projects can take several forms, including field and laboratory scientific studies, experimental work to clarify environmental processes and the causes and effects of OCS activities, modeling of environmental and socioeconomic processes to improve predictive capability, synthesis studies that pull together existing science to support decisions, and projects that build or improve protocols and mechanisms for data and information sharing relevant to marine/coastal resources and human use.
Geographically, the opportunity is focused on Alaska OCS planning and potential leasing areas, with emphasis on the Beaufort Sea, Chukchi Sea, and Cook Inlet including Shelikof Strait. These are regions where offshore development considerations intersect with sensitive ecosystems, subsistence resources, coastal hazards, and limited baseline data, so BOEM is prioritizing studies that can reduce uncertainty in environmental review and management decisions.
A key feature of this solicitation is that it is not open-ended: after the University of Alaska submitted letters of intent (LOIs), BOEM (in consultation with the State of Alaska) selected a defined list of LOI topics that are allowed to move forward to full proposals. The announcement explicitly states that this request is not a guarantee of funding and that proposals that do not directly target the selected research areas will not be considered. The five selected topics are: (1) development of a Coastal Community Vulnerability Index and visualizations of change in Cook Inlet, Alaska, which signals an applied focus on community exposure and adaptation planning tied to coastal change; (2) characterization of nearshore food web structure along environmental gradients in the OCS Cook Inlet region, supporting understanding of ecosystem function and potential impacts; (3) high-frequency, time-series characterization of physicochemical parameters in Cook Inlet, aimed at building baseline and variability information for oceanographic conditions; (4) analysis of physical drivers of change in Beaufort Sea coastal lagoons, including the effects of storm surges and flooding on barrier islands and a key subsistence species, the Pacific common eider, linking coastal processes, habitat change, and subsistence-relevant wildlife; and (5) study of microbial biodegradation of Alaska North Slope crude oil in Pacific Arctic marine sediments, addressing fate and persistence of oil under Arctic conditions relevant to spill risk and response.
From a funding standpoint, the announcement lists an award ceiling of $200,000 and anticipates up to five awards, which aligns closely with the five pre-selected topic areas. Important dates included a creation date of October 20, 2016 and an original closing date of November 30, 2016, placing it as a time-bound FY 2017 competition. Overall, the opportunity is best understood as a focused, BOEM-driven applied research call routed through the University of Alaska system, designed to produce decision-relevant environmental and socioeconomic information for offshore energy planning and management in priority Alaska OCS regions.Apply for M17AS00001
- The Department of the Interior, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management in the environment sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "BOEM FY 2017 Alaska Coastal Marine Institute" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.421.
- This funding opportunity was created on Oct 20, 2016.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Nov 30, 2016. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $200,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 5 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Public and State controlled institutions of higher education.
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