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News from the National Sea Grant Office

News from the National Sea Grant Office. Northeast Sea Grant Consortium 2013 Meeting November 19, 2013 Chris Hayes Program Officer. New National Website. Silver Spring Vibe. Social Science is a priority and Sea Grant is a leader within NOAA. Community Resilience is all the rage.

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News from the National Sea Grant Office

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  1. News from the National Sea Grant Office Northeast Sea Grant Consortium 2013 Meeting November 19, 2013 Chris Hayes Program Officer

  2. New National Website

  3. Silver Spring Vibe • Social Science is a priority and Sea Grant is a leader within NOAA. • Community Resilience is all the rage. • CR funds government operations through January 15, 2014 and suspends the debt limit through February 7, 2014.

  4. Sea Grant’s Budget FY2012 – $62.2M FY2013 – $57.3M FY2014 – ??? ?

  5. Possible sequester implications- FY2014 FY2013 sequester pain was mitigated by FY 2012 $2.2M carryover. Not available for FY2014. *If there is a full-year CR (level funding with FY2013) – • No social science ($1.7M) • No competitive community climate change adaptation projects ($0.5M) *If there is additional sequestration starting on January 15 – • In addition to 1 and 2 above, • No climate change capacity building ($1.0M) • Reduction in base funding ($0.6M)

  6. PIER Automatic Uploads • Worked with eSG and other program reporting systems to automatically upload data via Excel spreadsheets • Provided template for manually developing spreadsheets • Upload to PIER is forthcoming

  7. Committee Recommendations • Presented at the SGA meeting in Mobile • Allocation • PIE Assessment • Performance Measures/Metrics

  8. Thank You! • Fantastic region • Leverage NOAA and other regional partners • Quality social science research • Important component of Sea Grant’s social science portfolio

  9. Reporting regional impacts via PIER • Projects: • Each program should include regional project in 90-2. • Regional projects should be flagged. • Other programs should be listed as partners.

  10. Reporting regional impacts via PIER • Funding: • Actual funding sent from the NSGO should be reported (e.g., $0 or the project amount)

  11. Reporting regional impacts via PIER • Impacts and Accomplishments: • Each program should report any accomplishments or impacts of a regional project. • Programs have complete flexibility: • A well-crafted impact could be shared, • each program could write their own, • a shared impact could be tailored to each program, or • any combination thereof.

  12. Reporting regional impacts via PIER • Metrics and National Performance Measures: • Avoid any duplication of reporting. • Programs have complete flexibility: • Split evenly among programs. • Attribute based on location of impacts or accomplishments.

  13. Ideas to improve reporting and evaluating regional impacts • Enter the regional project into PIER one time and attribute all benefits to each of the programs (rather than have each program submit their portion of the project) • PRP reports could have a separate section of regional activities • This would help with “grading” and evaluation and could account for the group sharing of metrics, impacts, etc.) • Elevate importance of working regionally • Include separate criteria to evaluate regional work or multi-sea grant work • There are great multi-sea grant efforts, whether they are within a region or across the country and I think some of these “stories” are lost or not fully reported • Knowing there is limited funding it may be helpful to have a matching program for the NOAA regional teams • It could be modest amounts but assist the teams in addressing regional priorities • These funds could go through NOAA to others within NOAA but labeled as “SG funds” and there could be some potential cost savings

  14. Sea Grant Extension Assembly & Communicators Conference Mike Liffmann November 6, 2013

  15. A tip of our hats to… • Our gracious PASG hosts—Ann, Eric and others • The “Fundamentals” handbook--Kathy et al. • The Academy– Logan, Dave and a large supporting cast from MN and elsewhere • “Sandy” programs and our supportive network • Organizers of our professional meetings—Working waterfronts/SCCD, fisheries extension, climate adaptation, WeTable, PPCP, CNREP, etc. • Retired or moved on– Ken, Doug, Bob, Mike S., Logan, John J., Chuck

  16. Topics • FY2014 Budget Outlook • What’s ahead in 2014? Three committees: • Allocation • PIE Assessment • Performance Measures / Metrics

  17. Aquaculture • Folded into President’s budget; separate for House and Senate marks • Research competition. Extension funded in 2010 and 2013.

  18. Resilience Research • Purpose: “…developing more resilient coastal communities and sustaining diverse and vibrant economies.” • Specific areas of competitive research: Marine-related energy sources, wise use of water resources, climate change adaptation, coastal processes studies, resilience from natural hazards, technology development, resilient coastal businesses and industries (incl. tourism and fisheries)

  19. STEM Education • Proposed to reorganize 114 STEM education programs in 11 agencies and consolidate within DoEd, NSF and SI; • Termination of Knauss Policy Fellows, NMFS Graduate fellowships, and SG STEM activities(K-12 teacher training, curricula development, education). • Does not appear in House and Senate marks

  20. Grand Challenge • In the field of ocean mapping and observation; • Academic community and industry would compete for $10M prize for new technologies that modernize at-sea research, monitoring and application methods.

  21. You should also be interested in: • Recommendations of : • PIE Process Assessment Committee; • Funding Allocation Committee; • Performance Measures & Metrics Committee. • Network is commenting on recommendations. See your director. • Final decisions by the end of this calendar year

  22. PIE Process Assessment Committee (AC-3) • Chaired by SGAB member Dick Vortmann • Charge- develop an implementation strategy for the principles enumerated by AC-2 • Need-based formula devised summer 2013, recommendations made to SGAB, submitted to SGA and widely discussed • Comments sought. Get with your directors to gauge implications for your programs.

  23. PIE Process Assessment Committee Recommendations • PIE cycle successful but “too big and costly.” • Planning– better synching of national and state plans; only seek approval for major plan changes • Implementation- high expectations for focus teams have not been met, but tasks are important; find more efficient way

  24. PIE Process Assessment Committee Recommendations (cont.) • Evaluation- Integrate annual reviews, site visits, and an external evaluation panel into an overall four-year evaluation process; • “PRP be replaced by an external evaluation panel.” • External evaluation panel to be comprised of NSGAB, NOAA, other state/federal officials and academic/industry leaders.

  25. PMs and Metrics • Intended to inform reporting of 2014 (reported in spring of 2015) performance measures and metrics. • Proposed Performance Measure for each focus area—biggest changes for HCE and ELWD (new) • Output metrics– very few changes • “Work in progress” per Chair Karl Havens

  26. I’ll hand this over to Elizabeth..

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