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... Early-Career Research Fellowships The GRP offers Early-Career Research Fellowships for assistant professors (or equivalent) at colleges, universities, and research institutions to recognize professionals at the critical pre-tenure phase of their careers for exceptional leadership, past performance, and potential for future contributions to improving oil system safety, human health and well-being, or environmental protection.
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... . The FDEP's Florida Coastal Office manages over 2 million acres where she studied beach and of submerged lands and select coastal uplands within 41 aquatic preserves, dune dynamics on South Padre with the goal of maintaining their natural conditions for the propagation Island, Texas.
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... With support provided by the GRP's Early- meetings, I get to hear from Career Research Fellowship, they are working on creating ecologists, biologists, medical a thin plastic membrane with tiny nanopores that can doctors, and policy makers about perform oil–water separations. Used in combination with their perspectives on preserving existing oil spill cleanup technologies, this product could provide an economi- and interacting with the Gulf cal, nontoxic, and practical solution to removing oil from the environment and environment." recovering the oil so that it can be sold to fund remediation efforts.
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... extending our studies on the impacts of the 2010 Macondo Oil Spill as well as the consequence of long-term warming in the Gulf of Mexico." Anna Michel, Ph.D., is an assistant scientist in the On professional travel benefits: "The Department of Applied Ocean Physics and Engi- fellowship has allowed me to recently attend neering at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in a Gordon Conference on Methane Hydrates Woods Hole, Massachusetts. In her lab, she designs at which I was an invited speaker.
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... Synthesis Grants 2015 Synthesis Grants were made for two themes: (1) to use existing monitoring data to inform efforts to restore and maintain the Gulf of Mexico's ecosystem services, and (2)
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... 2015 AND 2016 GRANT TOPICS EXPLORATORY GRANTS 2015:  pproaches for effective education and training of workers in the offshore oil and gas industry and A health professions 2015:  inking ecosystem services related to and influenced by oil and gas production to human health L and well-being 2016:  cenario planning to advance safety culture and minimize risk in offshore oil and gas operations S 2016: nforming coastal community planning and response to environmental change in regions with I offshore oil and gas operations SYNTHESIS GRANTS 2015:  ata synthesis to address one of two themes: D – Inform plans and efforts to restore and maintain the services provided by Gulf coastal ecosystems – Enhance understanding of the Deep Gulf or the connectivity of the Deep Gulf to the coast, including physical and biological connectivity to coastal communities 2016:  cientific synthesis connecting environmental with social and/or health data to address one of two S themes: – Improve understanding of impacts of offshore oil and gas production on coastal communities – Improve understanding of human exposure to environmental contaminants CAPACITY-BUILDING GRANTS 2016:  nhancing community networks that improve coastal environments, health, and well-being E THE GULF RESEARCH PROGRAM Annual Report 2015 13
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... Planning Meeting for a Community Engagement Activity About Coastal Risk Reduction: The GRP provided funds to the Academies' Koshland Science Mu seum, the Water Science and Technology Board, and the Ocean Studies Board to follow up on the 2014 report Reducing Coastal Risk on the East and Gulf Coasts. The museum and boards convened a planning meeting to discuss a tool for engaging communities in decision making about the challenges of and solutions for responsible coastal development.
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