NSF Org:	OCE Division Of Ocean Sciences
Recipient:	GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Initial Amendment Date:	February 8, 2022
Latest Amendment Date:	August 17, 2023
Award Number:	2149906
Award Instrument:	Continuing Grant
Program Manager:	Elizabeth Rom elrom@nsf.gov  (703)292-7709 OCE  Division Of Ocean Sciences GEO  Directorate For Geosciences
Start Date:	March 1, 2022
End Date:	February 28, 2025 (Estimated)
Total Intended Award Amount:	$277,456.00
Total Awarded Amount to Date:	$277,456.00
Funds Obligated to Date:	FY 2022 = $91,456.00 FY 2023 = $186,000.00
History of Investigator:	Graham Sherwood (Principal Investigator) gsherwood@gmri.org Kanae Tokunaga (Co-Principal Investigator)
Recipient Sponsored Research Office:	Gulf of Maine Research Institute 350 COMMERCIAL ST PORTLAND ME  US  04101-4618 (207)772-2321
Sponsor Congressional District:	01
Primary Place of Performance:	Gulf of Maine Research Institute 350 Commericial Street Portland ME  US  04101-5597
Primary Place of Performance Congressional District:	01
Unique Entity Identifier (UEI):	JJGPRKQALRL7
Parent UEI:
NSF Program(s):	EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE
Primary Program Source:	01002223DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT 01002324DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT
Program Reference Code(s):	9150, 9250
Program Element Code(s):	169000
Award Agency Code:	4900
Fund Agency Code:	4900
Assistance Listing Number(s):	47.050

ABSTRACT

The Gulf of Maine Research Institute (GMRI),located in Portland, ME, will host a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program that will bring six undergraduates to the GMRI campus each summer for three years to complete a 10-week research experience. GRMI will provide undergraduate students from diverse backgrounds with an interdisciplinary research experience in the Gulf of Maine, a coupled natural and human (CNH) system warming faster than 99% of the world?s oceans. The primary objective of the GMRI program is to train the next generation of scientists capable of describing, quantifying and communicating the interconnections between environmental and human influences on marine ecosystems. Applications are encouraged from students attending colleges with limited research opportunities, such as two-year and four-year primarily undergraduate institutions, veterans, and students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

REU students at GMRI explore the structure and function of the Gulf of Maine fishery ecosystem (plankton to seafood), how it is changing over time (trends and prediction), how it responds to perturbations (e.g., climate and fishing), and how changes may affect local communities and economies. They develop independent, hypothesis-driven research projects and are exposed to multiple scientific approaches, including classic experimental ecology, observational science, and statistical and dynamical modeling. Students also receive safety training, ethics training, and data management, analysis and scientific communications workshops. These, along with social activities, a journal club, regular seminars and a student symposium to share results are designed to foster a sense of shared experiences, critical to the success of the program. Student research will contribute to an ecosystem approach to marine resource management in a rapidly changing environment, lessons from which can be applied to other coupled systems around the world.

This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

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