(Sandy Hook, NJ) — The New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium (NJSGC) is sending out a second wave of requests for applications to students interested in fisheries and aquaculture to apply for its 2014 Stew Tweed Fisheries and Aquaculture Scholarships. The Consortium awards two scholarships annually to a graduating high school senior ($1,500) and an undergraduate/graduate student ($2,000) pursuing studies or an outstanding research or technology project focusing on fisheries or aquaculture.
Established in 2007 to honor Stew Tweed, a former 27-year veteran of the organization’s marine advisory program, the scholarships have quickly become a reliable resource for students who plan to continue their studies in the fields of fisheries and aquaculture. Scholarship selection committee members are looking forward to receiving strong applications that demonstrate the best of what New Jersey has to offer and exemplify Tweed’s passion for applying the results of science-based research into outreach activities to related groups.
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(Sandy Hook, NJ) — New Jersey Sea Grant, Connecticut Sea Grant, and New York Sea Grant have awarded funds totaling $1.4 million to support ten social science research projects to improve community understanding and response to coastal storm hazard information as part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Sea Grant “Coastal Storm Awareness Program” (CSAP).
(Sandy Hook, NJ) –The New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium (NJSGC) has issued its annual call for graduate students interested in policy issues related to marine, ocean and/or Great Lakes resources to apply for the prestigious Dean John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship for 2015. The 34-year old fellowship, sponsored by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Sea Grant College Program, places select graduate students within the legislative or executive branches of the United States government or other related federal organizations in Washington, D.C.
(Sandy Hook, NJ) — NOAA Sea Grant is pleased to announce the award of $1.8M in grants to New Jersey, New York, and Connecticut to enhance the Nation’s ability to respond to disasters by closely examining how people responded to the warnings associated with storms like Sandy, what influenced the choices they made, and how they can be reached more effectively in the future.
Sandy caused 140 deaths and over $62 billion in economic losses, despite the warning, support and information from emergency managers, community leaders and the media. Many of these deaths were the result of human choices and actions. Sandy was the second most costly storm event in U.S. history.
(Sandy Hook, NJ) — The New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium (NJSGC) has announced that Rutgers University Graduate Research Assistant Anna Hermes was recently selected for the prestigious Knauss Fellowship.
The Knauss Fellowship Program, created in 1979 as a Sea Grant vehicle to match marine science-interested graduate students with hosts in the legislative and executive branches of the federal government, is a unique and competitive institution. Each year, graduate students from across the country apply for the highly competitive fellowship, and selected by merit of their academic record, interests and experience. The finalists are students whose achievements and initiative paint the promise of a stellar future. Hermes will represent New Jersey Sea Grant as a Knauss Fellow in the executive branch, an honor that recognizes her strong commitment to science and the environment.
(Sandy Hook, NJ) — Papers from a recent Regional Ocean Governance Symposium hosted at Seton Hall University School of Law in April 2013 have been published in a special on-line issue of the Sea Grant Law and Policy Journal at http://nsglc.olemiss.edu/sglpj/archive/vol6.1/ The issue features eight articles that emerged from the Symposium that provide insight about legal and policy issues related to regional ocean planning in the Mid-Atlantic, from New York to Virginia.
(Sandy Hook, NJ) — The New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium (NJSGC) is one of four programs selected to receive federal funding for a special NOAA Sea Grant initiative supporting community climate adaptation. The 2013 Community Climate Adaptation Initiative was developed by the NOAA National Sea Grant program to support projects that will help prepare for current and predicted impacts of climate variability and change on America’s coastal communities. Priority was placed on projects that best identified and addressed the vulnerabilities a coastal community may face adapting to climate change and would produce demonstrable outcomes by the end of the project period. The projects also had to involve active partnership with local (county or municipal) leadership, and include cooperation with relevant state, NOAA, and other Federal agencies, or other appropriate organizations.
(Sandy Hook, NJ) — The New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium (NJSGC) is hoping to raise some clams through a newly created web-site: http://www.gofundme.com/StewTweed-Scholarship to help sustain its Stew Tweed Fisheries and Aquaculture Scholarship Fund. The scholarship fund was established in 2007 in memory of Stew Tweed, a highly respected former 27-year veteran of the organization’s marine advisory program. Two annual scholarships have become a reliable competitive resource for students who plan to continue their studies in the fields of fisheries and aquaculture.
Believe it or not many students, teachers, administrators and parents from the Ripley, Ohio school district will get their first glimpse of the Atlantic Ocean as part of a special week-long program coordinated by the New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium (NJSGC) and research scientists.
(Sandy Hook, NJ) — The New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium (NJSGC) has announced and awarded the sixth pair of its Stew Tweed Fisheries and Aquaculture Scholarships, established in 2008 in memory of Stew Tweed, a 27-year veteran of the New Jersey Sea Grant Marine Extension Service, who passed away in early 2007. The scholarship checks were presented by Congressman Frank Pallone (D-6th District) during a special ceremony during Ocean Fun Days at the NJSGC’s headquarters at Sandy Hook on Sunday, June 9th, 2013. Also on hand for the presentation were Stew’s wife Gail and granddaughter Katie Pantelione.