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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 34 university-based Sea Grant programs 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) with the national office located in Silver Spring, Maryland. There are Sea Grant programs located in every coastal and Great Lakes state as well as in Puerto Rico and Guam.
The program was instituted in 1966 when Congress passed the National Sea Grant College Program Act.
Sea Grant programs and 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), although an institution may also be in one or more of the other programs concurrently with being a sea-grant institution.




History


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. The name "Sea Grant" was chosen to draw a parallel with the land-grant college program that was funded by grants of western lands to the states by the 1862 Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862. Early in the legislative process, there was consideration of leases of offshore parcels of ocean and sea bottom to fund the program by John A. Knauss and bill sponsor Claiborne Pell much like the 1862 land grants, but that plan was eventually scrapped in favor of direct congressional appropriation for the program. The 1966 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.
Signing of the 1966 Sea Grant College and Program Act into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson was on October 15, 1966, as Public Law 89-688. The only major subsequent change to the Sea Grant Act was with a 1970 Reorganization Plan, whereby the Office of Sea Grant was transferred from the National Science Foundation to the newly organized National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, where it still resides today.




Participating institutions


Institutions involved with the program include:




= Pacific region

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Oregon State University
University of Washington
University of California, San Diego
California Sea Grant
University of Southern California
University of Alaska Fairbanks' College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
University of Guam




= 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
University of Southern Mississippi
University of South Alabama
Southeast sub-region
Florida Sea Grant Consortium
University of Florida (Lead Institution)
Florida A&M University
Florida Atlantic University
Florida Gulf Coast University
Florida International University
Florida Institute of Technology
Florida State University
Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute
Jacksonville University
Mote Marine Laboratory
New College of Florida
Nova Southeastern University
University of Central Florida
University of North Florida
University of South Florida
University of West Florida
University of Miami
University of Georgia
University of Puerto Rico
South Carolina Sea Grant Consortium
Clemson University
South Carolina Department of Natural Resources
Medical University of South Carolina
The Citadel
College of Charleston
South Carolina State University
Coastal Carolina University
University of South Carolina




= Mid-Atlantic region

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North Carolina State University
East Carolina University
Virginia Sea Grant
College of William & Mary
Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Old Dominion University
Virginia Tech
University of Virginia
Virginia Commonwealth University
George Mason University
University of Maryland, College Park
University of Delaware
New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium
Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel
Fairleigh Dickinson University
Georgian Court University
Kean University
Marine Academy of Science and Technology
Monmouth University
Montclair State University
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Ramapo College of New Jersey
Raritan Valley Community College
Rowan University
Rutgers University
Seton Hall University
Stevens Institute of Technology
Stockton University
The College of New Jersey
Union County College
William Paterson University




= Northeast region

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New York Sea Grant (also participates in the Great Lakes Region)
Stony Brook University
State University of New York at Buffalo
Cornell University
University of Connecticut at Avery Point
University of Rhode Island
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Lake Champlain Sea Grant (also participates in the Great Lakes region)
University of Vermont
State University of New York at Plattsburgh
University of New Hampshire
University of Maine




= Great Lakes region

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Pennsylvania State University
Ohio State University
Michigan Sea Grant
Michigan State University
University of Michigan
Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant College Program
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Purdue University
University of Wisconsin–Madison
University of Minnesota, Duluth




See also


Land-grant university
National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program
Sun grant colleges




References






External links


Official website

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