For Funded Researchers
Project Reporting Requirements
The National Sea Grant College Program and NOAA require us to have accurate and current information for all projects supported through the Alaska Sea Grant College Program. We also maintain a public research project database where excerpts from your project report may be published.
The National Sea Grant Office will not allow us to fund any new project by an investigator who has not submitted a progress or completion report for currently funded projects.
Reporting types
- Progress reports for February 1 – January 31 must be submitted in the spring each year. We will provide a secure project-updating link through eSeaGrant to each principal investigator (PI) several weeks before the report is due.
- Final reports: At the end of the project period, all PIs must submit a final report describing that project's progress toward achieving stated objectives and identifying notable accomplishments, outcomes, products, and impacts over the entire period of the grant.
- Post-completion reports: We realize that impacts and publications resulting from projects often appear after a completion report has been submitted. For this reason, researchers will be sent annual progress reports for several years after the project period. Please provide updates whenever there are new impacts, publications, or when the student supported by the project graduates or has a new place of employment.
Questions? Please contact Associate Director for Research Molly Cain.
Publishing Your Work
All researchers receiving federal funds from the NOAA Office of Sea Grant must publish research results and distribute them to as wide an audience as possible. Results also must be reported to the federal government, which maintains a library of Sea Grant-funded publications at the NOAA Library.
Alaska Sea Grant also needs copies of all journal reprints, book chapters, proceedings contributions, and other reports.
Why it helps everyone
Ensuring that all publications resulting from Alaska Sea Grant-funded research are properly distributed benefits our program—and thus our ability to fund future research projects—when the National Sea Grant Office reviews our biennial implementation plan, and when we undergo program reviews.
Section 508 Compliance
All public-facing products produced with funding from Sea Grant must ensure compliance with Section 508 of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Please refer to our Section 508 Compliance Quick Start Guide to ensure that your publications are Section 508 compliant.
Open Access
It is expected that Alaska Sea Grant-funded work will be published open access. If publication fees are incurred after the project period, researchers can reach out to Alaska Sea Grant to request support for open access publication fees.
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