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Exploratory Grants Exploratory Grants seek to catalyze innovative thinking by providing seed money to advance research in its early conceptual phase, accelerate progress from concept to testing, and foster the development of novel approaches. Awards for the second Exploratory Grant competition were made in 2016 to projects addressing one of two themes: 1.
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One Research-Practice Grant competition, jointly developed and funded in collaboration with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, opened in 2016. The opportunity was for projects aimed at enhancing the science and practice of coastal community resilience in the Gulf of Mexico region THE GULF RESEARCH PROGRAM Annual Report 2016 9
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2016 Grant and Fellowship Recipients WA ND MT MN ME SD WI OR ID VT MI NH WY NY MA IA NE CT RI PA OH IL IN MD NJ NV UT CO KS WV DE MO KY VA CA OK TN NC AZ NM AR SC MS AL GA TX LA FL AK Number of Recipients 1 Competition 2 Early Career Research Fellowship 3 Exploratory Grants 4 Science Policy Fellowship 5 Synthesis Grants 10 THE GULF RESEARCH PROGRAM Annual Report 2016
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This grant gave us the ability to put together a team with expertise in different areas -- including statistics, health services research, and disaster epidemiology -- to address several important research questions about the health impacts of disasters." -- Jennifer Horney, Texas A&M University Health Science Center (Project Director) Modeling stress-associated health effects of multiple impacted ecosystem services in the Gulf of Mexico (2015 Exploratory Grant – Completed 2016)
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Our results will provide new insight into how environmental conditions shape the spatial ecology of mobile marine species and provide estimates of sea turtle distribution and movement that can be used to examine impacts of human activities on turtle populations." -- Katherine Mansfield, University of Central Florida (Project Director) Virtual offshore safety awareness (VOSA)
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In 2015, 10 individuals received awards totaling $520,000 as the GRP's second class of Science Policy Fellows and were placed in the following host offices in the Gulf region: • Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services • Florida Department of Environmental Protection • Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council (RESTORE Council) • Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority • Texas Parks & Wildlife Department • U.S.
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14 THE GULF RESEARCH PROGRAM Annual Report 2016
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It has improved reproduction, fisheries, and climate to help my ability to manage the balance between my prounderstand fish population vulnerability and fessional and personal time, maintain productivity, the effectiveness of management actions. and build a cohesive team of students and research assistants." Diego Figueroa, Ph.D., is an assistant On the research benefits: "This fellowship has allowed professor in the School of Earth, me to pursue research that is high risk, which usually does Environmental, and Marine Sciences not get funded by traditional funding sources.
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Ege On the benefits of unrestricted Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the Univer- funding: "The unrestricted nature of sity of Michigan. Her research group studies air the fellowship funds has allowed me to quality in the Alaskan Arctic -- home to Prudhoe pursue ‘last-minute' and new research Bay, the third largest oil field in North America.
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is a fellow at the Florida Department of "Education is a big part of who I am and as Agriculture and Consumer Services in Gainesville such the ability to not just sit in an office but where she works on special tasks identified by the to continue to be exposed to opportunities deputy commissioner and division directors, where I could learn new things and improve including literature searches, extension pieces, on my strengths was priceless." industry and community outreach, strategic planning, and project implementation. THE GULF RESEARCH PROGRAM Annual Report 2016 17
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and facilitation skills through these interactions. Her work includes writing white papers, My background is in public health and I have supporting public engagement efforts, being found it very rewarding to work with RESTORE involved in grant writing, and working with the Council staff and other collaborators who have RESTORE Council's grants management system.
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Being a fellow Wildlife Department in Austin, where she affords the chance to take part in or develop projects works on projects ranging from a with a support network in place, minimizing the literature review on oil spill dispersants pressures that could stifle exploration in a typical job to a science teacher education program setting." about hydrology. Stephanie Sharuga (Ph.D., oceanogra- On professional development: "The fellowship really phy and coastal sciences, Louisiana State helped me ‘fill in the blanks' in practical experience that I didn't University)
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Workshops Preparing for a Rapid Response to Major Offshore Oil Spills: A workshop to explore key research and data needs for improving public health response and protection during and after oil spills. The workshop is being led by the Board on Health Sciences Policy and will occur in 2017.
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