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Pennsylvania Sea Grant

One of the objectives of Clear into the Future is to promote research about estuaries and the environment in general. In 2008, DuPont awarded over $300,000 in research grants. Below is the list of 2008 grant recipients, available for download  .

2008 Grants ($330,000 Total)

Organization Focus Area
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation  

Delaware Watershed research and restoration projects (begun in calendar 2007, continued into 2008)

  1. Project PORTS:  Promoting Oyster Restoration Through Schools (OSRP, Rutgers, the State University of NJ)
  2. Building on Success:  Continued Habitat Restoration at Milford Neck (The Nature Conservancy)
  3. Salem Brownfields Waterfront Planning Project (City of Salem)

North Delaware Greenway Ecological Restoration (Pennsylvania Environmental Council)

 

Pennsylvania Environmental Council  

Support for a recreational user guide to the upper Delaware Estuary, and construction of a Delaware Water Trail.

 

New Jersey Audubon Society, Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey  

Support for creation and ongoing maintenance of a network of volunteers to use the Shorebird Resightings Website, and to place survey data into an open-access web database

 

The Nature Conservancy, Delaware Chapter  

Support for Creation of Trail System/Observation Tower at the Ponders Tract property in Delaware

 

Pennsylvania Sea Grant, Penn State University

 

Support for educational field programs for youth targeting the Delaware Estuary

 

Seaboard Fisheries Institute  

Support for Symposium on Atlantic Sturgeon in the Delaware Estuary

 

Delmarva Ornithological Society  

Support for purchase of critical habitat for the red knot in Delaware

 

Delaware State University  

Graduate student fellowship with research focus on the Delaware Estuary (may be split between 2 students)

 

Drexel University  

Graduate student fellowship with research focus on the Delaware Estuary

 

University of Delaware  

2 graduate student fellowships with research focus on the Delaware Estuary

 

 
 

University seminar series with focus on the Delaware Estuary

 

Rutgers University  

2 graduate student fellowships with research focus on the Delaware Estuary

 

 
 

University seminar series with focus on the Delaware Estuary

 

 

 
     

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