MEOPAR has opened a new Call for Proposals for the Living Lab Fund, supporting existing, place-based partnerships working to address coastal and marine challenges across Canada. The Living Lab Fund is built for partnerships that are already collaborating on the ground and want to formalize that work as a Living Lab, bringing together coordination, community… Read more »
With funding from the Strategic Science Fund (SSF), MEOPAR has launched the Expedition Fund; a program to support Canadian leadership in ocean-going marine research. MEOPAR is making it easier for Canadian ocean researchers to obtain funding for collecting observations at sea. With three different horizons (Rapid Response, Strategic Support, and Major Expeditions) the Expedition Fund… Read more »
The call aims to expand scientific knowledge, improve methodologies and measurement protocols, and identify effective interventions to enhance the climate mitigation and adaptation potential of blue carbon ecosystems. Blue carbon ecosystems, including salt marshes, seagrass meadows, and mangrove forests, and increasingly, non-vegetated systems such as macroalgae, unvegetated mudflats, and the water column, play a vital… Read more »
The Community-led Research (CLR) Fund supports multi-year, indigenous and community-driven research projects that strengthen resilience, promote community well-being and respond to marine environmental challenges. The fund is designed to: – Prioritize and uphold Indigenous-led and community-led research and community-defined priorities. – Develop community research capacity, including training, mentorship, and skills development. – Support research partnerships… Read more »
MEOPAR (Marine Environmental Observation, Prediction and Response Network) is a Canadian not-for-profit organization that supports research, training, and communication related to the ocean through funding programs. The goal of the Early Career Researcher (ECR) Awards is to provide individual research grants to support early career investigators in establishing independent research programs. The research project must… Read more »