The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) seeks one or two contractors to provide remediation support services for Douglas Shoal environmental management projects. However, GBRMPA reserves its right to select any number of Contractors, or no contractors for the Services. The submission deadlines are 20 February 2018 and 6 March 2018.

Location: O’Fallon, Missouri (St. Louis)

Julia Gorton, an Explorer-in-Training who worked at the College of Charleston Geology Department’s Visualizations Lab in Charleston, South Carolina, analyzing the ocean floor using data collected from NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer. Photo courtesy of NOAA.

The 2000 President’s Panel on Ocean Exploration Report, Discovering Earth’s Final Frontier: A U.S. Strategy for Ocean Exploration, calls for a national ocean exploration program to “train the next generation of ocean explorers."

MaRINET2 provides free access to a network of offshore renewable testing facilities, such as this testing basin for wave and offshore wind devices at the Lir National Ocean Test Facility, which operates within the MaREI Centre at University College Cork in Ireland.

The EU-funded MaRINET2 project launched its second call for applications on 15 January 2018. Successful applicants will receive free access to a world-leading network of testing and research infrastructures. The call is open to offshore energy technology developers, including wind, wave and tidal energy at system and component level. It is open until 28 February 2018.

Closing Date: 01/29/2018

On 19 December 2017, U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry announced that the Department of Energy (DOE) will allocate $18.5 million in funding to develop an offshore wind research and development consortium. The deadline for application has not been announced yet.

BOEM is beginning to formulate its FY2019 Environmental Studies Development Plan covering all BOEM energy and minerals activities, and invites your input in identifying potential study ideas for consideration on Alaska, Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico and Pacific OCS areas.

Have you conducted innovative research for the marine field that you'd like to present to a broad audience?

The International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) is now accepting applications for scientific participants on Expedition 383 Dynamics of the Pacific Antarctic Circumpolar Current, aboard the JOIDES Resolution. The deadline to apply is March 1, 2018.