MIT Sea Grant Announces Six Core RFP Funded Projects
MIT Sea Grant provides competitive funding opportunities for Massachusetts research scientists who seek to address marine issues in ways that benefit the state and region. Funding is provided through MIT Sea Grant’s competitive Core Request for Proposals (RFP). The 2024 funding opportunity called for proposals focusing on the following areas of research:
- Coastal and/or offshore aquaculture
- Ocean acidification
- Mitigating marine debris
- Biotechnology for ocean sustainability
- Technology for observation, underwater manipulation, and fisheries management
Six two-year projects have been recommended for funding, pending final approval by NOAA through MIT Sea Grant’s 2024 Core RFP:
- Advancing an Underwater Video Fish Counting System with Deep Learning and Integration with Volunteer Visual Monitoring and PIT Tagging to Improve Fisheries Management and Population Assessments (Lead PI: Linda Deegan, Woodwell Climate Research Center)
- Predicting New Biofouling of Oyster Farms in Cape Cod Bay: Reproduction, Settlement, Temperature Dependency, and Modeling of Larval Transport (Lead PI: Jesús Pineda, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
- Investigating the Efficacy of Alkalinity Addition in Mitigating the Effects of Ocean Acidification on Commercial Shellfish (Lead PI: Justin Ries, Northeastern University)
- Quantification of Ocean Acidification and Flow Properties in the US North East Coast with Applications to Aquaculture Monitoring and Marine Debris Mitigation (Lead PI: Themistoklis Sapsis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- Ocean Acidification in Massachusetts and Cape Cod Bay (Lead PI: Ryan Woosley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- Coupled Multi-Scale, Multi-Disciplinary Modeling of Fish Aquaculture Farms: From Fish Biomechanics to Cage Hydrodynamics (Lead PI: Dick Yue, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
