- National Sea Grant College Program
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The National Sea Grant College Program is a program of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) within the U.S. Department of Commerce. It is a national network of 30 Sea Grant Colleges and universities involved in scientific research, education, training, and extension projects geared toward the conservation and practical use of the coasts, Great Lakes, and other marine areas. The program is administered by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and is based in Silver Spring, Maryland.
There are 30 member institutions, called Sea Grant colleges, many but not all of which are located along the coast. The program was instituted in 1966 when Congress passed the National Sea Grant College Program Act.
Sea Grant colleges are not to be confused with land-grant colleges (a program instituted in 1862), space-grant colleges (instituted in 1988) or sun-grant colleges (instituted in 2003).
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History of the Sea Grant College Program
At a 1963 meeting of the [[American Fisheries Society, a University of Minnesota professor, Athelstan Spilhaus, first suggested the establishment of Sea Grant colleges in universities that wished to develop oceanic work.[1] Two years later, the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives passed the National Sea Grant College and Program Act of 1966. The Act allowed the National Science Foundation (NSF) authority to initiate and support education, research, and extension by:
- Encouraging and developing programs consisting of instruction, practical demonstrations, publications, and otherwise, by Sea grant colleges and other suitable institutes, laboratories, and public and private agencies through marine advisory programs with the object of imparting useful information to person currently employed or interested in the various fields related to the development of marine resources, the scientific community, and the general public.[2]
Participating institutions
A map showing the locations of and links to the institutions involved with the program is available from the NOAA here.
Pacific Region
- Oregon State University
- University of Washington
- University of California, San Diego
- University of Southern California
- University of Alaska Fairbanks School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences
- University of Hawaii at Manoa
Southeastern Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico Region
- Gulf of Mexico Sub-region
- Texas A&M University
- Louisiana State University
- Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium
- Auburn University
- Dauphin Island Sea Lab
- Jackson State University
- Mississippi State University
- University of Alabama
- University of Alabama at Birmingham
- University of Mississippi
- National Sea Grant Law Center
- Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Legal Program
- University of Southern Mississippi
- University of South Alabama
- Southeast Sub-region
- Florida State University
- University of Florida[4]
- University of Georgia
- University of Puerto Rico
- South Carolina Sea Grant Consortium
Mid-Atlantic Region
- University of North Carolina System
- East Carolina University
- University of North Carolina, Wilmington
- North Carolina State University
- Virginia Graduate Marine Science Consortium
- University of Maryland, College Park
- University of Delaware
- New Jersey Marine Sciences Consortium
- Aquatic Invasions Research Directory
- Atlantic Cape Community College
- American Littoral Society
- Brookdale Community College
- Burlington County College
- County College of Morris
- Cumberland County College
- Fairleigh Dickinson University
- Georgian Court University
- Kean University
- Marine Academy of Science and Technology
- Middlesex County College
- Monmouth University
- Montclair State University
- New Jersey City University
- New Jersey Institute of Technology
- Princeton University
- Ramapo College of New Jersey
- Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
- Rider University
- Rowan University
- Rutgers University
- Saint Peter's College, New Jersey
- Seton Hall University
- Stevens Institute of Technology
- The College of New Jersey
- Union County College
- University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
Northeast Region
- New York Sea Grant (also participates in the Great Lakes Region)
- State University of New York at Stony Brook
- Cornell University
- University of Connecticut at Avery Point
- University of Rhode Island
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
- University of Vermont (also participates in the Great Lakes Region)
- University of New Hampshire
- University of Maine
Great Lakes Region
- Pennsylvania State University
- The Ohio State University
- Michigan Sea Grant
- Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant College Program
- University of Wisconsin–Madison
- University of Minnesota-Duluth
See also
- Land Grant Colleges
- Space Grant Colleges
- Sun Grant Colleges
References
- ^ Jim Murray and Bruce Wilkins, The Philosophy: What do we do?, in Fundamental of a Sea Grant Extension Program
- ^ National Sea Grant College and Program Act of 1966.
- ^ http://groups.ucanr.org/UCSGEP/ UC Sea Grant Extension Program (accessed Dec. 31, 2008)
- ^ http://www.flseagrant.org/
External links
Categories:- Lists of universities and colleges in the United States
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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