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Florida Sea Grant’s Implementation Plan describes in greater detail the project and program activities that support the strategic plan in defined goal areas.
Each of Florida Sea Grant's nine goal areas and the work implemented within each contains a component of functional research,
extension and communications activities. Florida Sea Grant management provides oversight and makes available the resources to achieve each of the stated goals
through the work outlined in this plan.
Goal 1: Broad goals, audiences, products, performance,
impact and exit strategy |
| What are the goals? |
Create and enhance products and processes from living coastal resources. Develop marine bioproducts and sustainable sources of supply. Improve health and production of marine organisms. Promote human health and environmental quality. Facilitate informed consumer, business and technical decisions. |
| Who is the audience? |
Scientists. Executives in business, academia, government. Media. Funding organizations for research and outreach. |
| What are the products and activities? |
Technical knowledge. Inventions and patents on new products and processes. Trained students. Formats: primary literature, news releases, websites, workshops, conference displays, one-pagers, list serve. |
| Who will deliver the products and activities? |
Program management. Research faculty. Communications staff. |
| What are the performance indicators and measures of impact? |
New inventions, patents, products, business lines, investments, research funding, conservation of natural resources; greater reporting by media. |
| What is the exit strategy? |
Research infrastructure established and funded sustainably. Expanded level of business activity. |
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Goal 2: Broad goals, audiences, products, performance,
impact and exit strategy |
| What are the goals? |
To ensure that fisheries are managed based on the best scientific analysis. To ensure that fisheries are managed to achieve maximum sustainable economic and biological returns from the fishery. To reduce the number of overfished stocks. |
| Who is the audience? |
Scientists. GMFMC. SAFMC. FFWCC. GSMFC. ASMFC. Commercial and recreational fishermen. Conservation groups. |
| What are the products and activities? |
Science journals. Serving on advisory committees of management councils and commissions. Journal articles. Workshops on fish management concepts. Reports and technical papers. |
| Who will deliver the products and activities? |
Research faculty. State Extension faculty, County Extension faculty. Communications staff. |
| What are the performance indicators and measures of impact? |
Decreases in the numbers of stocks overfished. Achieving maximum economic yield from a fishery. Achieving sustainable stocks and level of fishing effort over time. Determining if management objectives are being met. |
| What is the exit strategy? |
Exit when stocks are fished at a sustainable economic and biological level. |
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Goal 3: Broad goals, audiences, products, performance,
impact and exit strategy |
| What are the goals? |
To increase the volume and value of cultured marine species products in Florida. To increase the number and value of marine ornamental species products in Florida. To achieve an environmentally and economically sustainable collection rate of marine ornamentals from the wild stocks. |
| Who is the audience? |
Scientists. Food species culturists. Marine Ornamental species culturists. Local, state and federal regulatory agencies. |
| What are the products and activities? |
Scientific journals. Workshops, conferences, personal visits. Reports and training materials. |
| Who will deliver the products and activities? |
Research faculty. State Extension faculty. County Extension faculty. Communications staff. |
| What are the performance indicators and measures of impact? |
Increase in the volume and value of food species cultured. Increase in the volume and value of marine ornamental species cultured. Sustained landings in wild harvest at regulated levels. |
| What is the exit strategy? |
Successful culture of food target species achieved. Successful culture of marine ornamental target species achieved. Economically viable culture and trade target species. Then, move to next group of potential species. Permitted and sustained harvest of wild marine ornamental species. |
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Goal 4: Broad goals, audiences, products, performance,
impact and exit strategy |
| What are the goals? |
To maintain the value and strength of seafood commerce in Florida, be it cultured, harvested, or imported. |
| Who is the audience? |
Harvesters. Processors. Wholesalers. Retailers. Importers/exporters. Regulators. Scientists. Students Secondarily, consumers, media. |
| What are the products and activities? |
Science journals. Educational courses. Training schools. Websites. Seminars. Association meetings. Personal visits. Training materials to support all of these. Some in Spanish. |
| Who will deliver the products and activities? |
Research faculty. State faculty. County Extension faculty. Communication staff. |
| What are the performance indicators and measures of impact? |
Value and volume of seafood commerce. Decreases in the number of seafood-borne illnesses. Fewer number of product recalls. Application of new technologies. Industry compliance. |
| What is the exit strategy? |
Industry compliance. Periodic evaluations. Private sector taking over. Reduction of seafood-borne illnesses. Regulatory action reduced. |
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Goal 5: Broad goals, audiences, products, performance,
impact and exit strategy |
| What are the goals? |
To reduce regulatory costs associated with waterway management and maintenance. To reduce the environmental effects on habitat from boating. To reduce the number of boating-related regulations by teaching boaters to self-regulate their boating activities. To cause boating regulations and behavior to be based on scientific principles. |
| Who is the audience? |
Scientists. Resource managers. Navigation districts. Local, regional and state regulatory authorities. Boaters. Marinas and other boating support businesses. |
| What are the products and activities? |
Science journals. Training programs and materials. Workshops and conferences. Websites. Sea Grant Reports and Technical Papers. |
| Who will deliver the products and activities? |
Research faculty. State and County Extension faculty. Communications staff. |
| What are the performance indicators and measures of impact? |
Decreases in waterway management/maintenance costs. Adoption of scientific principles for waterway and boating management by resource management and regulatory agencies. Reduction in the number of boating incidences that are harmful to habitat. |
| What is the exit strategy? |
When the effects of boating on habitat is no longer a major regulatory issue. When statewide adoption of scientific principles occurs. When the number of boating regulations implemented is reduced to a level acceptable to industry and regulators. |
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(Previously Water Quality & Coastal Habitats)
Goal 6 (Water Quality): Broad goals, audiences, products, performance,
impact and exit strategy |
| What are the goals? |
To reduce the sources, impacts and costs of nonpoint source contamination on Florida coastal ecosystems. To increase the involvement of citizens in improving the quality of Florida coastal ecosystems. To
restore habitat essential to the production of fish. To prohibit and/or eliminate aquatic nuisance species from coastal waters. To increase the number of artificial reefs constructed using current scientific knowledge. |
| Who is the audience? |
Scientists. Coastal homeowners. Local management agencies. Coastal businesses. Extension faculty. Local and state artificial reef managers and builders. |
| What are the products and activities? |
Scientific journal articles. Publications. Web site. Workshops. |
| Who will deliver the products and activities? |
Research faculty. State and county Extension faculty. Communications staff.
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| What are the performance indicators and measures of impact? |
Increase municipality use of methodology. Measureable increases in water quality/citizen participation. Increases in amount of habitat restored. No entry or elimination of nuisance species. Adaptation of artificial reef guidelines by local and state artificial reef managers. |
| What is the exit strategy? |
When the state takes on a coastal water quality monitoring program. When education, legislation and enforcement abate pollution. When habitat levels are deemed adequate by managers and regulators. When aquatic nuisance species are no longer a threat. When reef guidelines become mandatory by rule or law. |
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Goal 7: Broad goals, audiences, products, performance,
impact and exit strategy |
| What are the goals? |
To improve the ability of coastal communities to identify risk and potential loss from storms and natural hazards. To increase the cost effectiveness of structure retrofitting and storm mitigation. To reduce the loss of human life, property and environmental resources from coastal storms and hazards. |
| Who is the audience? |
Builders. Builders associations. Insurance industry. Public agency planners. Homeowners associations. Property management companies. Realtors. Homeowners. State building code inspectors. Banking industry. Community decision makers. Emergency preparedness officials. Environmental consulting firms. Scientists. |
| What are the products and activities? |
Beach signage. Trade journals. Builders shows. Website. Journal articles. Technical reports. Workshops, seminars. Extension agent newsletters. |
| Who will deliver the products and activities? |
Extension faculty. Research faculty. Energy Extension faculty. Communications staff. |
| What are the performance indicators and measures of impact? |
Completion of risk management workshops by county officials. Decrease in post-storm erosion and damage estimates. Development of insurance incentives to get structures compliant. Decrease in insurance rates. Reduced loss of life, injury after storm. Adoption of retrofitting techniques into the building code. Increased acreage of restored shoreline. |
| What is the exit strategy? |
Exit not likely due to continual threat of coastal storms and increased habitation at water's edge. Adoption of mitigation techniques in building code. When sufficient number of structures become compliant. |
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Florida Sea Grant's support for graduate education includes various scholarship and fellowship opportunities, as well as traditional research
assistantships, funded from both public and private sources. Sea Grant's multidisciplinary approach gives students scientific knowledge with
interdisciplinary perspective; they use multiple contexts to solve problems; and they learn to communicate complex ideas. Over time, this
support has produced significant results. Former scholars now hold professional roles in education, resource management and business. They
have indeed positively influenced sustainable use of marine and coastal resources -- in Florida, nationally and internationally. Their
performance affirms Florida Sea Grant's role in the training of future scientists as part of its total commitment to "Science Serving
Florida's Coast."
Goal 8: Broad goals, audiences, products, performance,
impact and exit strategy |
| What are the goals? |
Produce a highly trained force of multidisciplinary professionals to work in academics, government and industry. |
| Who is the audience? |
Graduate students. Secondarily, undergraduate students. |
| What are the products and activities? |
Research assistantships. Industry Fellowships. Knauss Fellowships. SG/NMFS Fellowships. Aylesworth and Old Salt Scholarships. Skoch Scholarships. Seminars. Conferences. Workshops. |
| Who will deliver the products and activities? |
Sea Grant Management. Research faculty. Communications staff. Management staff. |
| What are the performance indicators and measures of impact? |
Percentage of total SG funds supporting assistantships. Success rates in competitions for funds. Amounts of private funds raised for scholarships. Numbers of students completing degrees. |
| What is the exit strategy? |
Track which disciplines are being funded. Focus funds in disciplines where graduates are in short supply. Never will exit completely, but more a refocusing from time to time. Track where students are employed. |
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Through these programs, it is Sea Grant's goal that Florida's citizens will have a better understanding and better appreciation of our marine
and coastal systems. Our young people will not only learn more about our marine resources, but also be stimulated to explore future careers
in the marine and coastal sciences so they have the skills and expertise to deal with the future issues that face Florida.
Goal 9: Broad goals, audiences, products, performance,
impact and exit strategy |
| What are the goals? |
To increase the knowledge of citizens about coastal and marine issues and increase the use of science in decision-making about the use and conservation of coastal and marine resources. |
| Who is the audience? |
Florida citizens. Citizens outside Florida where appropriate. K-12 teachers. Non-formal educators involved in outreach programs. |
| What are the products and activities? |
Web site. Publications. Workshops and conferences. Advisory panels. Partnerships with other marine/coastal local, state and federal programs. Citizen-based activities. |
| Who will deliver the products and activities? |
Research faculty. State and county Extension faculty. Communications staff. Management staff. |
| What are the performance indicators and measures of impact? |
Increases in the amount of knowledge gained from a particular event or activity. Feedback from advisory panels. Determining the amount of science-based information used in designing management regulations or the way that business is conducted. Evaluation by external groups. |
| What is the exit strategy? |
Education is a never-ending process. The key is to move to new issue areas when success has been achieved on an area of focus. |
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Florida Sea Grant’s recent funding history indicates an increased reliance on sources other than federal Sea Grant dollars. NOAA Sea Grant core program funds now represent less than 40% of the total cost to operate the program, with the balance coming from other NOAA national competitions, faculty match, endowments, other federal and non-federal grants and state and county appropriations. The work presented in this implementation plan is funded from just the federal NOAA core program funds, and represents the following investments for 2006-09: research (48%), extension (31%), communications (9%) and management (12%).
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