The Pilot Project Program provides a mechanism by which the Woods Hole COHH can recruit newmembers, explore new areas of research, expand its technical capabilities, and enhance the collaborativeand interdisciplinary interactions among its scientists. The specific objectives of the Pilot Project Programare 1) to assess the feasibility of new areas of study, especially those that are not currently represented inour Research Project base, 2) to support the collection of preliminary data that can be used to generate fullproposals to NSF, NIH, or other agencies, 3) to recruit scientists not currently involved in research onoceans and human health, but who may have expertise in one of these areas, to become participatingmembers of the center and interact with other center investigators, 4) to stimulate collaborative andinterdisciplinary research within the center, 5) to foster the application of new technologies and experimentalapproaches to questions concerning the impact of oceanic processes on public health, 6) to ensure theability of the center to respond rapidly to new scientific information and emerging challenges in this field, and7) to contribute to the training of future researchers in the field of Oceans and Human Health throughenhancement of graduate and postdoctoral training opportunities. The Pilot Project Program will include anannual call for proposals, distributed to all faculty and research scientists from WHOI, MBL, and MIT. A pre-proposal requirement plus a rigorous, two-phase review process involving members of the Internal andExternal Advisory Committees will ensure the scientific quality of the projects. Results from funded PilotProjects will be reported and disseminated in a variety of ways, including peer-reviewed publication andposting on the center web
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