APPENDIX B— NATIONAL SEA GRANT 

 PROGRAM 



Through grants to colleges and universities, laboratories, and 

 public and private organizations, NOAA's National Sea Grant 

 Program supports marine-related research, eduction, and advisory 

 services. The recipients provide the personnel and facilities, plus 

 matching funds of 1/3 or more, to carry out projects designed to meet 

 local and regional as well as national needs. The Sea Grant 

 institutions — most of them public universities — thus enter into a 

 partnership with NOAA's Office of Sea Grant at the Federal level. 



In the 9 years since the National Sea Grant Program was founded, 

 eight universities or university groups have been designated as Sea 

 Grant Colleges, a recognition of their outstanding leadership and 

 highly effective programs. Seven others have attained the status of 

 Sea Grant institutions, conducting integrated multidisciplinary 

 research, education, and advisory programs, Another 11 universities 

 and institutions are carrying out marine affairs programs designated 

 as coherent projects. 



Some members of the Sea Grant network are in reality consortia of 

 several separate colleges and universities, pooling their individual 

 capabilities to create a greater competence for solving marine 

 problems. For example, the newest Sea Grant College — in New York 

 State — comprises nine campuses of the State University of New 

 York, as well as Cornell University. One coherent project, the 

 Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium, is an amalgam of four 

 academic institutions in Mississippi and six in Alabama. In two 

 large areas, thePacific and NewEngland, Sea Grant marine advisory 

 programs in several States have joined in associations to better serve 

 their regions' needs. 



The Sea Grant program not only brings together colleges and 

 universities, it crosses departmental lines within the participating 

 institutions to build multidisciplinary teams for solving marine 

 problems and passing the solutions on to Government agencies, 

 industry, and the general public. When necessary a wide range of 



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