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Oil spill research grant program gearing up
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The National
Academy of Sciences expects to start taking
applications this fall for the $500 million
assigned to the 30-year research program set
up as a result of criminal settlements from the
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(http://bit.ly/1maU8SC) the first set of
applications was announced this past week as part of the release of a "vision document"
outlining the program's first five years.
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"With this vision, the Gulf Research Program has the opportunity to tackle large, complex
issues across geographic and disciplinary boundaries over the long term, with the potential
to have a significant impact on the Gulf region, its ecosystems and its communities," said
academy president Ralph Cicerone.
The program's goals include improvement of oil production safety as well as to better
understand how people, the environment and energy production are connected. Another
target is to advance research into the changing ecology of the Gulf Coast region including
loss of land on the Louisiana coast.
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"This plan seems well thought out. It addresses concerns that many of us have expressed
about workforce development and education, long-term monitoring and observation, and
leadership and policy development," said Christopher D'Elia, dean of the LSU School of the
Coast and Environment.
Cynthia Sarthou, executive director of the Gulf Restoration Network, said the
environmental group is happy with the plan's focus.
"We are pleased that the program will focus on environmental sustainability and enhanced
industry safety in its first five years," she said.
Grant applications will be accepted for research into safety training for offshore workers
and into the connections between the coastal ecosystem and energy production with
human health. Other applications will be taken for two-year university faculty fellowships
and science policy fellowships for graduate and professional school students.
If something goes wrong again like it did at the Deepwater Horizon in 2010, it's the
institutions and workers in the Gulf States that will be the first to be affected and the first
to respond, D'Elia said.
"We're really struggling, as most universities are, to keep the graduate fellowships going,"
D'Elia said. "This really will help fill a gap for us."
Gulf States universities also pushed for better environmental monitoring in the Gulf.
According to National Academy of Sciences, the program will be launching the first
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Oil spill research grant program gearing up - SFGate
According to National Academy of Sciences, the program will be launching the first
competition for environmental monitoring grants next year.
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