Announcement of Federal Funding Opportunity:


2013 NMFS—Sea Grant Fellowship Program in Population Dynamics

Executive Summary

Federal Agency Name(s): Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Department of Commerce

Funding Opportunity Title: 2013 NMFS—Sea Grant Fellowship Program in Population Dynamics (Population Dynamics Graduate Fellowship Program)

Announcement Type: Initial Announcement

Funding Opportunity Number: NOAA-OAR-SG-2013-2003529

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Number(s): 11.417, Sea Grant Support

Dates: All applications must come through the sponsoring Sea Grant office. The deadline for application to California Sea Grant is 5 pm Pacific Standard Time, January 25, 2013. Applications will be submitted to the National Sea Grant Office (NSGO) by California Sea Grant by 1:00 pm, Pacific Standard Time, February 22, 2013 through Grants.gov. Facsimile transmission and electronic mail submission of applications will not be accepted.

Funding Opportunity Description: The Graduate Fellowship Program awards at least two new Ph.D. fellowships each year to students who are interested in careers related to the population dynamics of living marine resources and the development and implementation of quantitative methods for assessing their status. Fellows will work on thesis problems of public interest and relevance to NMFS under the guidance of NMFS mentors at participating NMFS Science Centers or Laboratories. The NMFS–Sea Grant Fellowship in Population Dynamics meets NOAA's Mission goal of “Protect, Restore and Manage the Use of Coastal and Ocean Resources Through Ecosystem-Based Management.”

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Submission Information

All applications must come through the sponsoring Sea Grant office. Application Deadline: January 25, 2013.

IMPORTANT: Contact us at sgnsgoproposal@ucsd.edu to obtain a password to use the website link BEFORE submitting any files.

Please upload an electronic copy of all application items, with required signatures. The electronic version of your application must be submitted as PDFs using the California Sea Grant submission link:

https://csgc.ucsd.edu/wpe/SUBMISSIONS/PILogin.php

Please make sure to include your last name in the file names for each section of the proposal (e.g., Smith_budget.pdf or Smith_cv.pdf). Once submitted through the website, PDFs may not be edited. To change a PDF, it must be deleted and resubmitted.

IMPORTANT: To preserve confidentiality, letters of recommendations should be posted directly by the letter writers. Please share the login information you receive with your letter writers to enable them to post their letters. Letters of recommendations cannot be viewed, edited, or deleted by any applicant once posted.

For electronic files larger than 6 MB, contact sgnsgoproposal@ucsd.edu to make other arrangements.

Please read the fellowship announcement for instructions regarding these required elements, and note the suggested name for your files after each item (no spaces or '/' in the filenames).

It would be VERY helpful if you would follow this format:

List of required elements for application
Required element Suggested File Name
Signed Title Page*
(2013PopDyTitlepage.xls)
 1_LastName_TitlePage.pdf
Project Summary Form* (ProjectSummaryForm.pdf)
Please attach your five-page project proposal to a file similar to the Project Summary Form.		 2_LastName_Summary.pdf
Budget and Budget Summary Forms* (90-4.xls) 3_LastName_Budget.pdf
Budget Justification 4_LastName_Justification.pdf
Curriculum Vitae of Applicant 5a_LastName_CV.pdf
Curriculum Vitae of Faculty Advisor 5b_LastName_CV.pdf
Curriculum Vitae of NMFS Mentor 5c_LastName_CV.pdf
Signed Letter of Commitment 6_LastName_CommitLtr.pdf
Copies of all Undergraduate and Graduate Student Transcripts 7_LastName_Transcript.pdf
Education and Career Goals Statement 8_LastName_Goal.pdf
Three Signed Letters of Recommendation 9_ LastName_RecLtrs.pdf
Proof of acceptance and enrollment/ or provisional acceptance letter in a graduate program in population dynamics or related field of study 10_LastName_AcceptLtr.pdf

Contact

Shauna Oh, Associate Director
For more information email: sgnsgoproposal@ucsd.edu

Please direct budget questions to:

Rose Madson
Business Manager
(858) 534-4601

Please direct online submission questions to:

Roberto Chavez
Programmer
(858) 534-4441

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