II. Award Information

A. Funding Availability
The National Estuarine Research Reserve System of NOAA announces the availability of graduate research fellowships. The Estuarine Reserves Division anticipates that 31 Graduate Research Fellowships will be competitively awarded to provide funding to qualified graduate students whose research occurs within the boundaries of at least one reserve. Minority students are encouraged to apply. The amount of the fellowship is $20,000; at least 30% of total project cost match is required by the applicant (ie. $8,572 match for $20,000 in federal funds for a total project cost of $28,572).

B. Project Award Period
This program announcement is for projects to be conducted by graduate students for one, two, or three-year periods of funding, with an anticipated start date of June 1, 2009. If an application is selected for only one year of funding, the NERR program has no obligation to provide additional funding in connection with that award in subsequent years. The applicant can, however, re-apply to the program at another time by following the same competitive process. An applicant cannot be supported for more than a total of three years under this fellowship. When a multi-year proposal is approved (two or three year award) the applicant does not need to re-apply for the second or third year of the program. Initially, funding will be provided for only the first year of the program; for each subsequent year of a multi-year proposal funding will be made available based on availability of funds and satisfactory progress of research as determined by the host reserve and the applicant’s faculty advisor, in consultation with NOAA’s Estuarine Reserves Division.

C. The funding instrument for NERR graduate research fellowship awards will be a grant.

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