Fiscal Year 2025 National Sea Grant College Program Dean John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship | NOAA OAR SG 2025 23655

Opportunity Information: Apply for NOAA OAR SG 2025 23655

The Fiscal Year 2025 National Sea Grant College Program Dean John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship is a federal funding opportunity from the U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), run through NOAA's Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) and the National Sea Grant College Program. It supports Sea Grant institutions in carrying out a long-standing educational mandate under the Sea Grant Act (33 USC 1121(b)): giving graduate and professional students a hands-on learning experience with how ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes policy is shaped inside the legislative and executive branches of the federal government. The core idea is to bridge marine science and resource management with real-world policymaking by placing fellows in federal offices where they can contribute to national decisions affecting these resources.

Programmatically, the fellowship sits within Sea Grant's broader mission to strengthen the nation's ability to understand, assess, develop, manage, use, and conserve ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes resources. The funding is intended to help Sea Grant institutions promote a strong educational base, support responsive research and training, encourage rapid and broad sharing of knowledge and techniques, and foster multidisciplinary problem-solving around environmental challenges. The Knauss Fellowship, launched by Sea Grant in 1979, is one of the main ways NOAA delivers on these responsibilities while also aligning with NOAA's mission of "science, service, and stewardship." In practical terms, the fellowship is designed to create a pipeline of professionals who understand both the technical dimensions of marine and coastal issues and the policy processes that govern them.

Eligibility is directed to applicants described as "Others" with additional clarification referenced in the full notice, but the opportunity is explicitly framed around Sea Grant institutions as the funded entities. The fellows themselves are described as current and recent graduate students (and other graduate or professional program participants, depending on the detailed eligibility rules) who have an interest in ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes resources and who want to engage with national policy decisions affecting those resources. The program also emphasizes that it seeks to provide educational and employment opportunity broadly and inclusively, reflecting Sea Grant's stated commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. The notice specifies that opportunity should be available regardless of race, color, religion, place of origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, socioeconomic status, disability, or veteran status.

From an administrative standpoint, this is a discretionary funding opportunity (CFDA/Assistance Listing 11.417) using grant and cooperative agreement instruments. The opportunity number is NOAA OAR SG 2025 23655. NOAA anticipated making about 35 awards, with an award ceiling listed at $93,900. The original closing date in the posted data is February 15, 2024, and the opportunity record shows a creation date of September 28, 2023. Overall, the opportunity is best understood as support for the Sea Grant network to run the Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship placements and associated program activities, with the larger goal of building national capacity in marine, coastal, and Great Lakes policy by embedding well-prepared graduate-level talent directly into federal decision-making environments.

• The Department of Commerce, DOC NOAA - ERA Production in the business and commerce, science and technology and other research and development sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Fiscal Year 2025 National Sea Grant College Program Dean John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship" 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 Sep 28, 2023.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Feb 15, 2024. (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 $93,900.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 35 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).

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