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Funding Opportunities
Find our current research funding opportunities for principal investigators below. Expired opportunities are included for reference.
Are you a graduate student? Find information on fellowships here. Principal investigators seeking to fund graduate fellows on their research projects can obtain information in our funding application materials about how to do so.
Current Funding Opportunities
2026 Biennial Research Competition
Maryland Sea Grant is seeking two-year, single or multi-investigator pre-proposals at the $100,000 per year level for research projects within Maryland’s coasts and watersheds focused on three areas: healthy coastal ecosystems, sustainable fisheries and aquaculture, and resilient communities and economies.
Program Development Awards
Maryland Sea Grant (MDSG) focuses on supporting translational watershed, coastal, and marine science that can inform broad audiences in the Chesapeake Bay region and Maryland's coastal areas. MDSG has the ability to support small, targeted grants that come under the general category of Program Development awards. These awards are given to help support important start-up efforts or to offer strategic support to emerging areas of importance. Program Development funds are designed to stimulate and foster small-scale innovative projects that will eventually lead to submissions for larger grants from a variety of sources. Also, these funds may be used to support workshops and educational opportunities that connect marine and coastal science to diverse audiences.
Other Funding Opportunities from Our Partners
National Sea Grant Office
Sea Grant is the primary university-based program of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) that supports coastal resource use and conservation. Its research and outreach programs promote better understanding, conservation, and use of America’s coastal resources. In short, Sea Grant is “science serving America’s coasts.”
Federal Government Grants
Grants.gov is the source to find and apply for federal grants. In particular, federal funding opportunities for all grants and fellowships supported by the National Sea Grant College Program can be found through the searchable database at grants.gov.
Expired Funding Opportunities
These past funding opportunities, now closed, resulted in numerous research projects funded by Maryland Sea Grant. We offer these descriptions as a reference about our funding interests, cycles, and history.
FY2024 National Aquaculture Initiative
2022-2023 Omnibus Research Competition
2024 Biennial Research Competition
Marine Finfish Aquaculture: Juvenile Production Technologies (2022)
Early Stage Propagation Strategies for Aquaculture Species (2022)
Search our database of projects funded through these solicitations.
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Featured Fellow
Leone Yisrael is a cephalopod-loving scuba diver, cook, and loves to try new activities. She conducts genetic analysis and fieldwork at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center through the Coastal Disease Ecology Lab.
Featured Research Project
Developing a habitat model for mysids, an important link in Chesapeake Bay food webs
Mysids are important mesozooplankton prey for many species of fish in Chesapeake Bay and are an important link in transferring energy from lower to upper trophic levels. Mysids also serve as biological vectors for benthic-pelagic coupling due to their diel vertical migration and omnivorous prey-switching behavior, which makes mysids important regulators of food web architecture. Despite their central role in coastal food webs, surprisingly little is known about mysid ecology and dynamics in Chesapeake Bay.
