The awards to academic and non-profit groups will support projects in three Habitat Focus Areas:
These Habitat Focus Areas increase the effectiveness of NOAA’s habitat conservation science and management efforts by identifying places where NOAA can meet priority habitat conservation objectives on a watershed scale. With this funding, the NOAA Office of Habitat Conservation is now providing funding to eight Habitat Focus Areas throughout the country.
All of these projects support the agency’s core missions of conserving coastal and marine habitats to support sustainable fisheries and coastal community resilience. Awards were selected through a competitive process involving rigorous technical review. An exclusive feature on NOAA’s Habitat Policy appears in the November / December 2015 issue of ECO Magazine. For more information, visit ecomagazine.com.