Grant Opportunity
Oceans and Human Health
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
For further information, please go to:
http://www.cop.noaa.gov/opportunities/ann_ohh.html
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is pleased to
announce an upcoming funding opportunity being made available through
the External Research Grants Program of NOAA's new Oceans and Human
Health Initiative (OHHI). OHHI was formally authorized by the Oceans and
Human Health Act (OHHA) that was passed by Congress 8 December 2004. The
External Research Grants Program is the largest of several OHHI programs
that are designed to enhance understanding of the role of the oceans in
human health, with the goal of providing useful research and predictive
information to NOAA, public health officials, and natural resource
managers. The OHHA defines oceans to include the Great Lakes.
This funding opportunity is intended to engage the non-federal research
community in conducting research - across the physical, chemical,
biological, medical, public health, oceanographic, and social sciences -
on priority issues for OHHI. The Federal Register Notice (FRN) that will
officially announce the OHHI External Research Grants Program funding
opportunity is expected to be published by 25 March 2005 and possibly as
early as 18 March. There will be a relatively short period of time
between the official posting of the FRN and the proposal due date. This
notice is intended to make you, your membership, and interested others
aware of the upcoming funding opportunity, for planning purposes. If
interested in this opportunity, please check frequently for the official
Federal Register Notice, in order to have available the maximum proposal
preparation time.
As soon as that Federal Register Notice is published, the associated
Federal Funding Opportunity (FFO) will be available through the NOAA
websites:
Center for Sponsored Coastal Ocean Research
http://www.cop.noaa.gov/
NOAA Oceans and Human Health Initiative (OHHI) at the NOAA Office of
Global Programs
http://www.ogp.noaa.gov/mpe/ohi/index.htm
Additional background information on NOAA's OHHI and OHHI's External
Research Grants Program is available on the websites above.