# Ocean Exploration Fiscal Year 2024 Funding Opportunity

Source: https://welltoldgrants.com/grants/noaa-oar-oer-2024-2007964-ocean-exploration-fiscal-year-2024-funding-opportunity/  
Official notice: https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/347413

> Department of Commerce offered grants of up to $1.0 million (at least $75,000) to the applicants described in the notice. It expected to make about 10 awards worth $3.0 million in total. Applications closed on November 8, 2023.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Opportunity number | NOAA-OAR-OER-2024-2007964 |
| Agency | Department of Commerce |
| Status | Forecast |
| Deadline | November 8, 2023 |
| Award ceiling | $1.0 million |
| Award floor | $75,000 |
| Expected awards | 10 |
| Total funding | $3.0 million |
| Cost sharing | not required |
| Assistance Listings | 11.011 |

## Who can apply

- Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)

Eligible applicants are U.S.-based institutions of higher education; nonprofit organizations; U.S. state, tribal, territory, and local governments; for-profit organizations; and federal agencies that possess the statutory authority to accept funding for this type of work. Applicants from institutions that are part of the Ocean Exploration Cooperative Institute (OECI), which are the University of Rhode Island, Ocean Exploration Trust, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, the University of New Hampshire, and the University of Southern Mississippi, are not eligible to apply as these institutions have an annual opportunity to apply for NOAA Ocean Exploration funding via the OECI. Personnel from the above-listed OECI institutions may still collaborate with an eligible U.S.-based applicant on a proposal as a subawardee, but not as a principal (lead) or co-principal investigator. Before proposals from federal agencies other than NOAA can be funded, applicants must affirm that their agency has legal authority to receive funds from another federal agency for this type of work in excess of their appropriation. NOAA and other federal agencies with this legal authority must agree to take FY24 funding for proposed projects (both one and two year projects) and allocate those funds in FY24 (i.e., between October 1, 2023, and September 30, 2024).Because this notice is not proposing to procure goods or services from applicants, the Economy Act (31 U.S.C. section 1535) does not provide this authority.

## What the grant funds

NOAA Ocean Exploration is soliciting proposals for ocean exploration-related projects under three themes. By supporting exploration, i.e., discovery through disciplined, diverse observations, NOAA Ocean Exploration seeks to advance our basic understanding of waters under U.S. jurisdiction. Projects under the ocean exploration and discovery and technology themes are restricted to waters under U.S. jurisdiction and should support national priorities such as those in the Strategic Priorities for Ocean Exploration and Characterization of the United States Exclusive Economic Zone (https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/NOMEC_OEC_Priorities_Report.pdf) developed per the National Strategy for Mapping, Exploring, and Characterizing the United States Exclusive Economic Zone (https://www.noaa.gov/nomec). Projects under the maritime heritage theme are not restricted to waters under U.S. jurisdiction. All projects should support at least one of NOAA’s science and technology priorities of uncrewed systems, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, ’omics, data, and citizen science (https://sciencecouncil.noaa.gov/NOAA-Science-Technology-Focus-Areas). For Fiscal Year 2024 (FY24) funding, NOAA Ocean Exploration is soliciting proposals focused on any one of the following three themes: OCEAN EXPLORATION and DISCOVERY: Proposals should be in support of the NOAA Ocean Exploration mission to explore unknown or poorly known ocean areas, processes, and resources in waters deeper than 200 meters. Thus, NOAA Ocean Exploration is particularly interested in exploration of physical, chemical, and biological environments and processes within the oceanic water column in these deep waters. However, proposals for projects in shallower waters will be considered if they focus on exploration of tropical mesophotic environments. All proposals should be for work within waters under U.S. jurisdiction and describe how the work will address the thematic and geographic priorities for ocean exploration in the Strategic Priorities for Ocean Exploration and Characterization of the United States Exclusive Economic Zone. TECHNOLOGY: Proposals should feature application of new or novel use of existing ocean technologies or innovative methods that could increase the scope and efficiency of acquiring ocean exploration data and expanding its availability and use.

## Questions people ask

### Is NOAA-OAR-OER-2024-2007964 still open?

No. It closed on November 8, 2023.

### Who can apply for Ocean Exploration Fiscal Year 2024 Funding Opportunity?

Department of Commerce accepted applications from the applicants described in the notice. The notice adds further conditions, so read its eligibility section.

### What is the deadline for Ocean Exploration Fiscal Year 2024 Funding Opportunity?

Closed November 8, 2023. Applications are no longer accepted; the program's newer notices are on this page when there are any.

### How much funding is available?

Awards of up to $1.0 million each. About $3.0 million in total across about 10 awards.

### Who has won Ocean Exploration grants before?

The largest recipients over five fiscal years were The Global Foundation for Ocean Exploration, Inc, National Marine Sanctuary Foundation, University of Washington. The program made 35 awards worth $34.1 million in that time.