Opportunity Information: Apply for NOAA OAR SG 2016 2004720
The Fiscal Year 2016 NMFS-Sea Grant Fellowships in Marine Resource Economics is a competitive federal fellowship opportunity from the U.S. Department of Commerce, administered through NOAA (NOAA Fisheries/NMFS) in partnership with the Sea Grant network. The program is designed to support PhD-level training for students planning careers that connect economic analysis with real-world marine conservation and fisheries management needs. It focuses on building expertise in quantitative methods used to evaluate the economic dimensions of managing living marine resources, with an emphasis on applied research that can inform public decisions.
The fellowship typically funds two new PhD fellows each year. Selected fellows are expected to pursue dissertation or thesis research topics that are clearly relevant to NMFS priorities and of public interest, meaning the work should have practical value for fisheries policy, ecosystem-based management, protected resources, or other marine resource decisions where economic tradeoffs matter. A defining feature of this program is the mentorship component: fellows work under the guidance of NMFS mentors located at participating NMFS Science Centers or NMFS Offices. This pairing is intended to ensure the academic research is grounded in management realities, data availability, and policy timelines, while still meeting doctoral research standards.
From a program purpose standpoint, the fellowship is aligned with NOAA's Healthy Oceans goal, particularly the objective of sustaining marine fisheries, habitats, and biodiversity through healthy and productive ecosystems. In practice, that alignment suggests research could involve topics such as bioeconomic modeling, valuation of ecosystem services, analyses of fishing regulations and incentives, socioeconomic impacts of conservation measures, cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness studies, or methods that integrate ecological and economic data to support management choices.
Funding is provided as a cooperative agreement, with an expected annual award of $46,000 per fellow. That total includes federal support plus matching funds, and it is jointly funded by NOAA Fisheries and Sea Grant. The award ceiling listed for the opportunity is $46,000, which corresponds to the anticipated per-fellow annual amount, and the opportunity anticipated making two awards in this cycle.
Eligibility requirements are specific. Applicants must be United States citizens, and they must be at the stage of entering or already being in doctoral training. At the time of application, a prospective fellow must be admitted to a PhD program in resource economics or environmental economics at an accredited institution of higher education in the United States or its territories. Alternatively, an applicant may submit a signed letter from the institution indicating provisional acceptance to such a PhD program, with that acceptance conditional on obtaining financial support like this fellowship. This requirement emphasizes that the fellowship is meant to support doctoral study in a clearly relevant economics discipline tied to natural resources and the environment.
Applications are not submitted directly by individual students to NOAA. Instead, applications must come through Sea Grant programs, reflecting the structure of Sea Grant as the conduit for these fellowships. Submissions are made through Grants.gov under the funding opportunity number NOAA OAR SG 2016 2004720, associated with CFDA number 11.417. The opportunity was categorized as discretionary funding, within the broad activity areas of environment, natural resources, and science and technology research and development. For this 2016 cycle, the original closing date was February 26, 2016.Apply for NOAA OAR SG 2016 2004720
- The Department of Commerce in the environment, natural resources, science and technology and other research and development sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Fiscal Year 2016 NMFS-Sea Grant Fellowships in Marine Resource Economics" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 11.417.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2015-12-03.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2016-02-26. (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 $46,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 2 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Others.
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