FULL PROPOSAL INSTRUCTIONS

2025-2027 LONG ISLAND SOUND RESEARCH

Full Proposal Instructions for the 1 January 2025 – 31 December 2026 funding period.
IMPORTANT REMINDERS:
Full proposals must be submitted using NY Sea Grant’s (NYSG) electronic submission website
nysgproposal.org for receipt no later than 5:00 pm EDT on Monday, August 5, 2024.
The submission website closes and proposals cannot be submitted after the deadline.
Proposals submitted by email will be discarded without review, as will proposals that fail to
comply with content, format, page limits, budget, and other requirements.

● The first year of the funding period covered by this Call for Proposals will begin on
January 1, 2025 (contingent on the availability of funding).

● All proposals must be reviewed and approved by the Principal Investigator’s Sponsored
Programs Office (or equivalent) before submission. Proposals that have not been
approved, with appropriate signatures from an authorized institutional representative
(the principal investigator is generally NOT an authorized institutional representative),
will be discarded without review.

● Projects considered for funding should address the research topics outlined in the
2025 - 2027 Call for Preliminary Proposals for Long Island Sound Research and on
pages 2 and 3 of this document.

● Even if you have submitted proposals to NYSG or CTSG in the past, be sure to carefully
follow these instructions. There are some significant differences from previous
requirements and instructions relative to this competition.

I. BACKGROUND
On January 29, 2024, the Connecticut Sea Grant (CTSG) and New York Sea Grant (NYSG)
programs announced a Call for Preliminary Proposals for the Long Island Sound Study (LISS)
Research Program. This program is intended to fund research in support of the LISS, a regional,
community-based partnership to protect and restore Long Island Sound. Information on the LISS
can be obtained at longislandsoundstudy.net.

Initiated in 1999, the Long Island Sound Research Grant Program awards funds to researchers
whose work helps inform efforts to manage Long Island Sound. Descriptions of projects
previously funded are available at

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https://longislandsoundstudy.net/research-monitoring/liss-research-grant-program/.

A. Research Focus and Topic Areas

The purpose of this Call is to support actionable research that produces and integrates
information that fills identified gaps in our understanding and extends the ability of managers
to make informed decisions and take appropriate management actions to prevent, reduce, or
mitigate anthropogenic stressors and enhance the health and sustainability of the Sound.
Topic areas address the four themes of the 2015 Long Island Sound Comprehensive
Conservation and Management Plan (CCMP), which is available at:
http://longislandsoundstudy.net/our-vision-and plan/.

**Applicants should use the 2020-2024 CCMP Update for the revised Implementation
Actions** at: https://longislandsoundstudy.net/2021/01/ccmp-implementation-actions-supplemental
documents/.

Applicants must EXPLICITLY specify which CCMP Outcome, Objective, Strategy, and
Implementation Action(s) the project will address (the text must include at least brief
descriptions and not just lists of numbers). A vague listing of references to those priorities
without an effective explanation of how the proposed work will specifically address the
relevant Strategy -> Implementation Action(s) will not be deemed sufficient. Proposals that
also specify the Ecosystem Targets to be addressed and/or incorporate the cross-cutting
principles of resilience to climate change, long-term sustainability, and environmental justice are
encouraged.
For this RFP, research is defined as natural and/or social scientific endeavors with explicit and
testable hypotheses that strive to answer “why” and “how” questions. Proposals that focus
primarily on model development and/or synthesis efforts must be hypothesis-driven and those
that seek to describe or monitor conditions and do not identify or test a specific hypothesis
will not be considered.
This Call encourages the submission of larger-scale research proposals that combine topic areas
or themes, embrace interdisciplinary approaches, or involve multiple partners to produce
actionable, management-relevant outputs. Research outputs should provide explanations,
models, or tools to understand and forecast the response of LIS to anthropogenic stressors and
to support management measures to prevent, reduce, or mitigate these stressors.

1. End Users
The project must engage end users from the beginning and throughout the project. An end user
is defined as a person or group in a position to apply the information or tools being produced,
evaluated, or transferred through a research project in a way that is of direct consequence to
the ecological, social, or economic integrity of LIS and/or surrounding watershed(s) and
communities. Examples of end users include, but are not limited to, municipal, state or federal
government, private, or non-governmental decision/policy makers, including landowners,
resource managers, land use planners, businesses (such as fisheries or aquaculture), and

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educators at all levels.
Proposals must identify likely end users that would benefit from this research and briefly
describe the mutual benefits of collaboration. Applicants must also clearly identify the
actionable information, tools, or outputs to be produced by the research and how they will be
delivered for actionable/applied use. The inclusion of details regarding end user engagement
plans as well as letters of support from end users are highly encouraged in full proposals.
Submissions that merely state that the information generated has value to managers, without
adequate elaboration, will not be competitive. Applicants should consider involving the end
users/beneficiaries early in the process. Colleagues in federal, state, or local government
agencies, NGOs, and/or Sea Grant extension professionals may be able to assist in identifying
potential end users. The LISS Working Group membership lists can be found at:
https://longislandsoundstudy.net/about/committees/.

B. Duration and Funding

At this time and subject to federal funding, the program anticipates awarding approximately
$6,500,000 to cover the entire duration of all selected projects. The program will support one or
two-year projects. Proposals of any amount are welcome up to a maximum funding level of
$1,000,000 ($500,000/year cap) and this must include all direct plus indirect costs. Proposals
in excess of $250,000/year must explicitly demonstrate interdisciplinary approaches to complex
problems, involve collaborative research teams, and produce outputs with the potential for high
impact. Proposals that exceed the maximum amount will be discarded without review.

Match Requirements: This funding Call requires that at least 50% of the federal dollars
awarded must be matched by non-federal funds. This Call therefore requires that proposals
include at least a 50% match, i.e., $1 in non-federal match for every $2 of federal funds
requested.

C. Eligibility
Proposals from the following eligible groups may be accepted and approved for funding:
A. Faculty at universities and colleges,
B. Researchers at not-for-profit institutions,
C. Researchers who are personnel of state or local agencies, and
D. Researchers at for-profit institutions or companies.
Eligibility is not limited to individuals from New York and Connecticut. However, the primary
professional base of the lead investigator must be in the United States, and the proposed
projects must be relevant to Long Island Sound.
Co-PIs identified on the award must be based at a U.S. institution, and federal funds received
from the award cannot be used to support foreign or international organizations. U.S. citizens
located in other countries are not eligible to receive funding under this award. Federal funds
received from the award cannot be used for international travel or to perform work in a foreign
country. Federal employees and institutions are not eligible to receive compensation,
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equipment, or budgeted items of any sort, but they may be involved with the project (they can
be listed as collaborators). Students and NYSG and CTSG staff cannot have Principal Investigator,
co-PI, or Associate Investigator status. Members of the LISS Science and Technical Advisory
Committee (STAC) may serve as PIs or co-PIs and may receive funding under this initiative,
provided they meet the other criteria above.

II. DETAILS FOR FULL PROPOSALS

A. General Information
Full proposals have been encouraged only from those prospective principal investigators with
the highest-ranked preliminary proposals following Panel review and selection. Summary
comments relating to the evaluation of each pre-proposal will be disseminated to the lead
investigator by email on or about June 21, 2024.
The full proposal requires submission of the materials described below and in accordance with
these Instructions. It is essential that the proposal contains all of the listed components and be
submitted in the format described. As stated above, the submission website closes and
proposals cannot be submitted after the deadline. Proposals submitted by email will be
discarded without review, as will proposals that fail to comply with content, format, page
limits, budget, and other requirements.
The full proposal must be single-spaced, typed in a font equivalent to 12-point Times New
Roman or larger on letter-size paper with 1-inch margins on all pages, and submitted as a single
PDF file.
QAPP Requirement: The EPA requires that a Quality Assurance Project Plan (QAPP) is developed
and approved for all projects, funded directly by the EPA or through sub-awards to another
entity, involving the collection or analysis of environmental data. The applicant will be
responsible for developing the QAPP and submitting it to Sea Grant for review and approval by
EPA. The completion, submission, and approval of a QAPP is required before any data
collection can be conducted by PIs. Applicants should include the development of the QAPP in
their full proposal work plan and budget. Information regarding developing a QAPP is available
at https://www.epa.gov/quality/region-1-quality-systems-documents. Questions on the
requirements to develop a QAPP can be directed to Melissa Duvall ([email protected]),
the project officer for the grant agreement between EPA and the Connecticut and New York Sea
Grant Programs.

B. Full Proposal Components - Instructions

Required forms are available at: https://seagrant.sunysb.edu/articles/r/1212

1. Subrecipient Form: The Subrecipient Form with all Institutional Signatures and one for
each subcontract (not required for Stony Brook University PIs).
2. University Contact Sheet: For each subcontract.
3. Project Summary Form: The Project Summary Form should very briefly convey all essential

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 elements of the proposed activities. The entire Project Summary may not exceed 2 pages
in length.
4. Project Narrative: This section must start on a new page and not exceed 15 consecutively
numbered pages, not including support letters and the references cited. Any
attachments, appendices, figures, tables, etc. to the project narrative are counted within
the 15-page limit. Proposals that exceed this page limit will be discarded without review.

a. Project Title: The title should be brief, specific, and descriptive of the activity.

b. Objectives: List the objectives of the proposed research (should be the same as the
objectives listed in the Project Summary Form, 90-2) and the hypotheses being tested during
the project. Proposals without specifically stated hypotheses will not be considered.

c. Justification: This section should include any background or introductory information that
would help explain the objectives of the study. You should carefully review other related
work and demonstrate how your proposed research builds on this base. Explain why the
project is important, and to whom. Explain how the proposed project addresses one or
more specific CCMP Strategy, and Implementation Action(s) identified in the preproposal.

d. Research Design and Methods: Outline the research design, methods, and techniques
that you propose to meet the stated objectives. Be sure to describe:

i. the procedures and techniques that will be used;

ii. the experimental design;
iii. data sources and means by which you will access, collect and analyze them;
iv. roles and responsibilities of personnel, including students, as related to
the project; and
v. facilities available to conduct the research.

If the project’s work is being proposed in conjunction with other projects or proposals or will
coordinate with other known efforts, be sure to describe and explain these linkages,
potential overlaps, and how the proposed research differs from these other efforts.

Letters verifying the collaboration of other investigators/organizations to be involved with

the project (if any) must be included in your proposal submission but are not counted as
part of the page limit for the project narrative.

e. Usefulness of the Anticipated Results to Management: Explain how the research and
anticipated results are actionable and can be used to inform and advance the management
of Long Island Sound and its resources. Identify the actionable information, tools, or outputs
to be produced by the research. Submissions that merely state that the information
generated has value to managers, without adequate elaboration, will not be competitive.

f. Engagement of End Users: Clearly identify the individual(s) or organizational end

users/beneficiaries who will apply or utilize the research results, how these users will be
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 engaged in the process, and the anticipated management outcomes. Applicants should
consider involving the end users/beneficiaries early in the process and supply letters of
support. Colleagues in federal, state or local government agencies, NGOs and/or Sea Grant
extension professionals may be able to assist in identifying potential end users. The LISS
Working Group membership lists can be found at:
https://longislandsoundstudy.net/about/committees/.

Letters of support do not count toward the page limit.

g. Demonstration of interdisciplinary approaches: As stated in the preproposal RFP,

proposals over $250,000/year must utilize interdisciplinary approaches to complex
problems, involve interdisciplinary collaborative research teams, and produce outputs with
the potential for high impact. If relevant, explain how the proposed research is
interdisciplinary, collaborative and expects to yield high impact outputs. Proposals that
exceed the maximum amount will not be reviewed.

h. General Project Information: Discuss other information relevant to the potential success
of the project that has not been included above. This should include the project timeline for
benchmarks and expected outputs, interactions/collaborations with other institutions, and
other pertinent information.

i. Previous LISS Funding: If you have received funding from the LISS Research Competition
since 2018, please briefly describe the status and outputs of this research and explain how
the proposed research builds on or utilizes previously funded work. Also, briefly describe
how this new research differs from previously funded work.
5. Literature Cited: Begin on a new page and include the complete citation for each
publication referenced within the proposal. This list is not part of the 15-page maximum
narrative page count.
6. Current and Pending Support: The applicants (senior personnel: PI, co-PI, AI) must identify
any current and pending financial resources that are intended to support research and
their relationship to the proposal being submitted under this Call. Updates of this
information may be requested during the evaluation process.
7. Budget Form 90-4: The applicant must present a detailed, itemized budget for the entire
project, including any cost share or matching funds. This budget must utilize the Sea
Grant Project Budget Form 90-4, available with examples at the link above at the
beginning of this section.

The total budget request for all projects under this Call may not exceed $500,000 a year for
up to 2 years, including all direct and indirect costs. This Call requires that proposals include
at least a 50% match, i.e,. $1.00 in non-federal match for every $2.00 requested.

Note that the budget for a full proposal is expected not to deviate substantially from its
pre-proposal submission. A substantial increase in the final budget request will be viewed
negatively and likely will result in either rejection of the project or budget cuts without
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changes in the scope of work.

Under section A. Salaries and Wages, actual numbers of personnel should be shown in the
column after the categories, e.g., co-principal investigator (2), if there are 2 co-PIs. The
total time to be spent on the project should be shown in person months to the nearest
tenth in the appropriate box.

In calculating the share of salaries, the actual time to be spent on the project should be
used. If a researcher will spend one-fourth of their time on the project during the academic
year, and their academic year salary is $45,000, the calculation will be $45,000 divided by
four ($11,125), and the time shown will be nine months divided by four (2.25 months). An
effort calculator is provided in the 90-4 spreadsheet.

Definitions for the various personnel categories follow, numbered to correspond with the
90-4 budget form:

A. SALARIES AND WAGES

1. Senior Personnel
a. The Principal Investigator is responsible for the conduct of this activity. If
responsibility is shared equally among two persons, they should be shown as
co-principal investigators. NOTE: Curricula vitae, two pages in length, for all persons
in this category, must be submitted with the proposal (see “9” below).
b. Associate Investigators (faculty or staff) are professional persons who are full-time
on the faculty or staff of the submitting institution. NOTE: Curricula vitae, two pages
in length, for all persons in this category, must be submitted with the proposal (see
“9” below).

2. Other Personnel
a. Research Associates and Technicians are research support positions that do not
hold the rank of faculty, but work under the direction of a Principal Investigator or
faculty member who directs the research they are directly engaged in the research
endeavor. Consultants should be listed under "Other Costs" because fringe benefits
or some elements of indirect costs may not be computed on their compensation.
b. Post-docs are Ph.D. recipients, temporarily engaged in mentored research and/or
scholarly training to acquire professional skills to pursue their chosen career path
who are working on the project.
c. Graduate Research Assistants are part- or full-time graduate students who hold at
least a bachelor's degree.

d. Professional School students are students enrolled in medical, legal, and

other professional schools.

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e. Pre-baccalaureates are undergraduate students enrolled either part-time or
full-time in a course leading to a degree, including an Associate Degree, in the case of
students in two-year programs, or a certificate in the case of some vocational
students. Pre-Bac students may be employed as aides or helpers on projects either
on salary as part-time employees or on an hourly basis.
f. Secretarial-Clerical is a category for office personnel. This is generally not allowable
as a direct charge. The person’s work must be project-specific and justified.
g. Technical Shop is a category for technicians, shop personnel, and other persons with
special, but non-professional skills.
h. Miscellaneous Personnel may be used for "other" persons not included
in categories a through h and should be described.
B. FRINGE BENEFITS. Use your institution's approved rates.
C. PERMANENT EQUIPMENT. The rationale for the purchase and use of permanent
equipment with a cost of $1,000 or more per unit should be explained. Note that, you
must use $1,000 for the cost threshold for permanent equipment for this Call. If you
are proposing to purchase permanent equipment that could be leased, please include
a lease vs. purchase analysis. Include a full list, with justification for each item of
permanent equipment, on the Budget Justification page of your proposal.
D. EXPENDABLE SUPPLIES. Supplies may include chemicals, laboratory supplies, and
other expendable items. This includes office supplies specific to the project only,
general office supplies are not allowable as they are considered an indirect cost.
Describe the need for these supplies in implementing the project. Show the total cost
in the budget summary. If supplies are unusual in nature or amount, explain on the
Budget Justification page. Greater detail is necessary for supplies costing over $1,500
or 5% of an award.
E. TRAVEL. Show the basis for travel in the Budget Justification as "X" trips at "Y"
average cost of "Z" days. Per diem for travel must be based on the regulations of the
proposing institution and included in the travel budget total. Domestic travel includes
travel to all U.S. Possessions or Trusts (including Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the
Trust Territories, Guam, and Samoa). All other travel is considered "international," and
for this award, no international travel is permitted. In the current climate of shrinking
budgets, the Sea Grant offices will scrutinize requests for travel funds very
closely—please ensure that all requests are reasonable and necessary to the proposed
project. Note that funds received from the award cannot be used for international
travel or to perform work in a foreign country.
F. PUBLICATIONS AND DOCUMENTATION COSTS. Widespread dissemination of
information is implicit in all grants, and publication in “open access” journals is
strongly encouraged. Include within your budget the cost of manuscript preparation.
Please put journal and page reprint charges on a separate line. We require all
publications resulting from funded projects to acknowledge CT and NY Sea Grant and
EPA LISS support.
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 G. OTHER COSTS. List such items as data management and archiving expenses,
high-performance computing, reimbursement of sub-awards, equipment rental,
consultants, boat time ("X" days at "Y" cost per day), etc. Note that facilities rental and
other costs not allowable under the federal portion of the grant may be listed as
"Other Costs" in the grantee cost-share column if they will be provided by others. All
necessary funding for data management and archiving activities should be included in
the budget unless explained otherwise.
H. INDIRECT COSTS. The basis for computing indirect costs should be stated in the
Budget Justification. Note that indirect costs apply to the matching funds column as
well as the Sea Grant funds column.
I. MATCHING COSTS (COST-SHARE). This funding Call requires that at least 50% of the
awarded federal dollars made through this Call be matched by state or private funds,
i.e. $1 in non-federal must be provided as a match for every $2 requested. Cost Share
is entered in column G.
8. Budget Justification: The budget justification should explain the rationale and basis for
calculating the personnel, fringe benefits, travel, equipment, supplies, contractual
support, and other costs identified in the itemized budget and explain the basis for their
calculation (special attention should be given to explaining the travel, equipment, and
contracts). This should also include an explanation of how the indirect costs were
calculated. If cost share or matching funds are included in the budget, describe what role
they have in the overall project.

Personnel needs should show names, percentage of time (months of effort), and best
estimates of salaries. Fringe benefit rates must be presented. Equipment must be listed
with an explanation of the need for larger items (items greater than $1,000 in cost).
Categories of supplies should be shown.
9. Curriculum Vitae: The resumes of all senior personnel (PI, co-PI, AI) must be included. CVs
for other key co-workers are not required. Each resume must not exceed two pages.
10. Letters of Collaboration, Support, and Cost-Share Commitment: As appropriate, include
correspondence regarding expected impacts and benefits, collaborative efforts and/or
others' support for the project, and letters certifying match commitment (required).
Scan hard copies of such materials or have them sent to you by email so that you can
include them as part of your electronic submission. Faxes, emails, and hard copies sent
separately to either Sea Grant program will not be accepted.
11. Permits: Project PIs should assess the need for any required permits or permissions to
conduct the research and mention/list here what they are and the likelihood of obtaining
them. The process of obtaining any required permits or permissions should be included in
the project timeline. If no permits or permissions are needed or required, state that here.
12. Data Management Plan: Data and information collected and/or created under this EPA
grant must be made visible, accessible, and independently understandable to general users,
free of charge or at minimal cost, in a timely manner (typically no later than two years after
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 the data are collected or created), except where limited by law, regulation, policy or by
security requirements. The requirement has two basic parts: (1) environmental data
generated by a grant project must be made available after a reasonable period of exclusive
use, and (2) the grant application must describe the plan to make the data available.

Each full proposal must include a complete Data Management Plan Form outlining the Data
Sharing Plan and include descriptions of the types of data and information created during
the project; the tentative date by which data will be shared; the standards to be used for
data/metadata format and content; policies addressing data stewardship and preservation;
procedures for providing access, sharing, and security; and prior experience in publishing
such data.

The Data Sharing Plan (and any subsequent revisions or updates) must be made publicly
available at the time of award and, thereafter, will be posted with the published data. Failing
to share data and information collected using the grant funds may lead to disallowed costs
and be considered in making future award decisions. If your proposed activities do not
generate any data, you are still required to include a data-sharing plan. Such a data-sharing
plan could include the statement that “this project will not generate any data”.

All necessary funding for data management activities should be included in the budget
unless explained otherwise.

If data is collected under this agreement, project information must be submitted to the LISS
metadata mapper. Existing projects already included in the mapper should check the project’s
metadata for completeness and submit corrections if needed.

Water quality data should be deposited at EPA’s Water Quality Exchange (WQX):
https://www.epa.gov/waterdata/water-quality-data

The NCEI is also a preferred data repository, though it might not be appropriate or available
for all data collected: https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/.

Complete and include the DMP form found at:

http://seagrant.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1985/2017/04/Full-Proposal-DMP-For
m.docx

III. SUBMISSION
The completed Full Proposal (90-4 and budget justification included), as a single PDF file, the
90-4 Excel file, and Budget Justification in Word (three files total) must be submitted using NY
Sea Grant’s (NYSG) electronic submission website www.NYSGProposal.org for receipt no
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later than by 5:00 pm EDT on Monday, August 5, 2024. Late or incomplete proposals will not
be processed. Hard copy, email, and fax submissions will NOT be accepted.

Please note that, although the submissions are to NYSG’s website, this is a jointly administered
funding opportunity, and all the submissions will be processed by both programs, CTSG and
NYSG, as a single pool. Full proposals that are not received by the deadline will be discarded
without review, as will proposals that fail to comply with content, format, budget, and length
requirements (i.e,. any proposals submitted that are missing any components (1-12), and or
exceed the length requirements listed above will be rejected).

All proposals must be reviewed and approved by the Principal Investigator’s Sponsored
Programs Office before submission (subrecipient page). Proposals that have not been
approved with appropriate signatures from an authorized institutional representative (the
principal investigator is generally NOT an authorized institutional representative) will not be
reviewed. Subcontract budgets must also have appropriate signatures from an authorized
representative of the other institution(s) to be accepted for review.

Please double-check your Full Proposal file before uploading it to the submission website to
make sure it is complete, in order, and that it is your final version. It must be a single PDF file
(which includes the budget and budget justification). In addition to the single PDF file, upload
the 90-4 Excel file, and Budget Justification in Word format (three files total). You will receive
an auto-receipt with a time and date stamp from the website confirming your submission, but
this is not an indication that your file is readable or conforms to the requirements of this call. If
the file contains a virus or is unreadable, your submission cannot be accepted. A Sea Grant
check of your submission’s readability before the submission deadline cannot be guaranteed. It
is up to you to send a readable file. Early submission is recommended. If you find an error or
mistake in your proposal, you may upload a revised version if you do so before the submission
deadline. The most recently uploaded files will be the versions reviewed.

IV. PROPOSAL REVIEW AND EVALUATION CRITERIA

Full proposals will be subject to external peer reviews followed by a Technical Review Panel
(TRP) convened by NYSG and CTSG and consisting of academic peers and assessed based on the
evaluation criteria listed below.

1. Justification (30%):

● Responsiveness to the Call for research focused on the topics and concerns outlined in
the Call for Preliminary Proposals for 2025-2027 Long Island Sound Research and in this
document on pages 2 and 3; and

● Significance of the problem, or rationale and importance of the work to the management
of Long Island Sound resources.

2. Scientific and Technical Merit, Appropriate and Cost-effective Budget, and Technical
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 Capacity (40%):

● Clarity and attainability of the objectives detailed in the project description;

● Adequacy of the proposed methodology to test hypotheses and accomplish stated

objectives, including the soundness of the technical approach, scientific design, methods,
timeline, and data interpretation;

● Adequacy of the proposed budget to accomplish the stated objectives and of the budget
justification in explaining the need for resources;

● Staff expertise/qualifications, staff knowledge, and resources to successfully achieve the

goals of the project;

In addition to the information provided by the applicant in its submission, in evaluating the
applicant under these criteria, the reviewers may consider information from other sources
including agency files. Poor past performance and/or reporting history of applicants previously
awarded a LISS grant(s) will be considered within the review process.

3. Expected Outputs and Outcomes, Management Implications, and

Anticipated Usefulness of the Results (30%):

● Strength of the applicant’s description of outputs and outcomes, which must be

well-defined and results-oriented; and

● Degree to which the anticipated results of the project will actionably inform, strengthen,
and direct the science-based management of the Long Island Sound ecosystem and its
resources, and be actively useful to LIS managers and/ or end-users/beneficiaries.

● Extent to which there is clearly demonstrated engagement with end-users

In addition to the evaluation criteria above, the following selection criteria may be applied to
the final determination of the proposals selected for funding:
● Diversity of topics addressed.

● Diversity of proposal PIs.

● Past performance and/or reporting history of applicants previously awarded a LISS grant(s).

V. TIMELINE FOR PROPOSAL PROCESS

August 5 -- Full proposals are due by 5:00 p.m. EDT via www.NYSGproposal.org
October 7* -- Sea Grant notifies lead investigators about decisions
October 25* -- Provide peer reviews and a summary of Full Proposal Review Panel results

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January 1, 2025** -- Year 1 funding starts (if a QAPP has been submitted and approved). Before
data collection or use – PIs must submit and receive EPA approval for the project Quality
Assurance Project Plan (QAPP). No data collection can be conducted by PIs until a QAPP has been
approved.
October 1, 2025 – 10-month progress report due to Sea Grant offices.
January 1, 2026 -- Year 2 funding starts (if Year 1 progress is satisfactory).
March 1, 2027 – Final report due to Sea Grant offices.
*Dates are approximate and may change slightly. **Contingent on availability of funding.

VI. FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:

Dr. Syma A. Ebbin Research Coordinator

Connecticut Sea Grant College Program
University of Connecticut 1080 Shennecossett Road
Groton, CT 06340-6048
Tel. (860) 608-9509 (cell)
E-mail: [email protected]

Mr. Lane Smith

Research Program Coordinator
New York Sea Grant
125 Nassau Hall
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY 11794-5001
Tel. (631) 632-9780
E-mail: [email protected]

VII. USEFUL LINKS:

Submission website: http://www.NYSGproposal.org

Long Island Sound Study: http://www.longislandsoundstudy.net
CCMP: http://longislandsoundstudy.net/about/our-vision
LISS Working Groups: https://longislandsoundstudy.net/about/committees
Science Needs Document:
https://longislandsoundstudy.net/2022/04/science-needs-comprehensive-summary
NY Sea Grant: NYSeaGrant.org
CT Sea Grant: https://seagrant.uconn.edu

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