For more than two decades Maryland Sea Grant has invited proposals and funded projects from a range of researchers throughout the state and beyond. Work undertaken by Sea Grant-supported scientists and scholars has helped uncover the mysteries of the blue crab's life cycle, expanded our understanding of oyster growth and disease, made more clear the way nutrients cycle through the estuary, and detailed the mechanisms by which oxygen levels rise and fall. Primary participants in Maryland Sea Grant research have included many campuses and research centers within the University System of Maryland, including the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, the University Maryland Biotechnology Institute, the University of Maryland College Park, the University of Maryland Baltimore County, the University of Maryland Eastern Shore and other campuses and departments. In addition, Maryland Sea Grant funds have supported researchers at the Academy of Natural Sciences, the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, the Johns Hopkins University, and others. Regular Proposal Process Maryland Sea Grant's regular proposal process generally operates on a two-year cycle, though proposals may be for one year, two years, or more.
Funding occurs annually, through a conventional grants and contracts procedure.
For information about regular research support, see the Maryland Sea Grant Request for Proposals . Maryland Sea Grant Research Fellows Maryland Sea Grant Research Fellows work with researchers on Sea Grant-funded projects as they complete their own requirements for a graduate degree. Support for Research Fellows is generally awarded in conjunction with a full Sea Grant research proposal, as described above. These grants may help support travel, equipment or other similar items in support of specific research efforts. Such Program Development awards may, for example, assist a researcher in testing a method that may later form the basis for a full Sea Grant proposal.