Current Funding Opportunities
*CLOSED: Graphic Designer Illustrator, Indigenous Narrative Component
Digital skills required
Issue Date: August 30, 2024
Application Submission Due Date: September 20, 2024
Climate Assessment and Proactive Resilience Initiative (CAPRI)
The University of New Hampshire’s Center for Spills and Environmental Hazards (CSE)/Coastal Response Research Center (CRRC) will be working with NOAA’s Office of Response and Restoration (ORR) and Northwest Planning LLC (Nome, AK) on a project titled the Climate Assessment and Proactive Resilience Initiative (CAPRI). This project will pilot an approach to use scientific visualizations and visual narratives for identifying current and future impacts of climate change to human and natural resources incorporating Indigenous knowledge and experience of the ecosystem surrounding Nome, Alaska.
The Indigenous Visualization and Narrative Component will seek to create a visual representation of the coastal ecosystem surrounding Nome, Alaska, highlighting the knowledge and lived experience of the Indigenous peoples of the area. The visualizations will help to depict their historical and current relationships to the environment and Indigenous ecosystem knowledge and describe their traditional uses of the ecosystem including the impacts of climate change, economic development, and coastal disaster events to that ecosystem.
This graphic visual narrative will serve as an important tool to inform the stakeholders of the CAPRI project about Indigenous uses and concerns in a way that honors their cultures and traditions.
The Indigenous Visualization and Narrative Component will then be paired with the Western Science Visualization Component, to enable stakeholders to understand the multiple perspectives of threats and impacts of climate change and development on ecosystem.
This illustrated narrative will primarily be in digital format that may be used electronically or in printed materials.
Qualifications:
Ideal candidates will have a strong understanding and connection to Indigenous cultures surrounding Nome, Alaska with abilities to express culturally appropriate visual styles.
Ability to work with Indigenous knowledge holders and storytellers to visualize narratives and then translate those images into visual products suitable for distribution to the project stakeholders.
Ability to create high resolution digital images of coastal environments.
Proficient with Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator.
Provide relevant portfolio of work examples.
Available immediately and work through the end of project scheduled for June 30, 2025.
Ability to travel and participate in two Alaska workshops: October 23-25, 2024, in Nome, and winter 2025 in Anchorage.
Contract:
Project budget not to exceed $20,000 (i.e., commensurate to skill level, time, products). Travel expenses will be provided by the project separately.
Application Submission:
Please submit your application package to UNH/CRRC in a single pdf format to this designated folder:
Timeline:
- Candidates submit applications on or before September 20, 2024 (5:00 pm AKT)
- Finalists will be notified on September 24, 2024
- Virtual (via Zoom) interviews with finalists will be conducted on September 27, 2024
- Notification of awardee October 1, 2024
- Selected awardee will be required to participate in person at the Nome workshop on October 23 – 25, 2024, and the Anchorage workshop during the winter 2025
*CLOSED: North Atlantic Regional Collaboration Team Plan for Engagement with Underserved and Overburdened Urban Coastal Communities
Issue Date: Tuesday, September 4, 2024
Application Submission Due Date: Tuesday, October 22, 2024
The objective of the proposed project is to develop a strategic engagement plan for underserved and overburdened urban coastal communities in the North Atlantic region that would provide regional OR&R staff with guidance to improve communication and collaboration with them.
Click here for full RFQ details. *CLOSED
The University of New Hampshire (UNH) Coastal Response Research Center (CRRC) is soliciting proposals for Technical Support for creating a plan to improve NOAA Office of Response and Restoration (OR&R) engagement and collaboration with underserved and overburdened coastal communities in urban areas of the North Atlantic region (defined here as Maine through Virginia). The plan will provide guidance to OR&R staff to support increased equity in how each of its divisions serves the public in the North Atlantic region. Anyone wishing to submit a proposal (the Proposer) must comply with the requirements contained in this Request for Qualifications (RFQ). Any interpretations, corrections or changes to this RFQ will be made as addenda. Addenda will be posted and available on the CRRC website.
The purpose of this project is to provide technically sound, science‐based support to CRRC as part of its Five‐Year Grant from NOAA OR&R. An RFQ/RFP process will be used to select the successful Proposer that will be issued a subaward under UNH’s prime award from OR&R. The selection process will consist of two phases. During Phase 1 RFQ, Proposers will submit qualifications to be considered; specifically addressing their ability to meet the technical requirements listed in this RFQ. Only those Proposers that respond to the Phase 1 RFQ on or before the October 15, 2024, deadline and successfully meet the qualifications criteria (Section 7: Performance Metrics) will be included in Phase 2 RFP selection process. The Phase 1 RFQ pre‐ qualification step will streamline the process, ensuring that only those Proposers that have the unique and specific technical expertise/experience required for this project are considered further. The Phase 2 Request for Proposals (RFP) will evaluate the ability of each of the Proposers pre‐qualified in the Phase 1 RFQ to perform the work detailed in this document within the available time and budget.
*CLOSED: RFP (Request for Proposals)
Environmental Sensitivity Index (ESI) Feasibility Study of All-Hazards Indices Expansion
Issue date: January 3, 2023
Due Date: March 6, 2023
The University of New Hampshire (UNH) Coastal Response Research Center (CRRC) is soliciting proposals for Technical Support that will explore expansion of the scope of Environmental Sensitivities Indices (ESIs) into a broader all-coastal hazards tool (identified in the Project Scope of Work herein).
The Environmental Sensitivity Index (ESI) product was developed by NOAA to support planning for and responding to coastal oil spills. ESI maps and datasets are based on an index of shoreline types, ranked in order of their sensitivity to oil and chemical spills. This index was the original basis of ESI maps and has been a standard for industry and responders ever since. Data is also gathered to show biological resources and human-use resources at risk in a coastal area, displayed along with the indexed shoreline types.
Many states have adopted the ESI concept and created their own products for oil spill planning and response, often following NOAA’s ESI Guidelines. NOAA OR&R is interested in expanding the scope of ESIs into a broader all-coastal-hazards tool. Expanding the content covered in ESI products will enhance the tool as a “one-stop shop” for coastal planners and emergency responders. The desired outcome is that future NOAA ESI data will be useful for broader coastal hazard planning and response by federal, state, tribal, and municipal agencies as well as industry and the public at large.
****This project was funded and completed with the Final Report submitted Sept 2024: Environmental Sensitivity Index (ESI) Feasibility Study of All-Hazards Indices Expansion - Research Planning, inc. (released Sept 2024). This research project was funded by NOAA Office of Response & Restoration in cooperation with CRRC.
*CLOSED: RFQ (Request for Qualifications)
Technical Support for Developing and Testing in situ Air Sampling Apparatus for Characterizing Exposure from Oil Slicks at the Air Water Interface
Issue date: December 12, 2023
Due Date: January 26, 2023
The University of New Hampshire (UNH) Coastal Response Research Center (CRRC) is soliciting proposals for Technical Support for developing and testing an in situ air sampling apparatus for characterizing oil exposure to surface breathing animals in the marine environment. This project is intended to characterize both gas and liquid phases of oil constituents in the air column over a surface slick, which will be mapped according to surface oil thickness classifications. Characterization of the gradient of air exposure moving up the air column, including focusing on more biologically significant measurements close to the air water interface is the primary focus of this investigation. This includes determining and documenting an exposure gradient from the surface up through the air column over different thicknesses of oil, and if possible, under different wind, wave, and weathering conditions.
The purpose of this project is to provide technically sound, science‐based support to the CRRC as part of its Five‐Year Grant from NOAA’s Office of Response and Restoration (ORR). An RFQ process will be used to select the successful Proposer that will be issued a subaward under UNH’s prime award.
