The Pacific Marine and Estuarine Fish Habitat Partnership (PMEP) is partnering with the Friends of South Slough Reserve to develop a synthesis of eelgrass restoration techniques along the U.S. West Coast to inform the restoration community, promote successful restoration of eelgrass, and provide greater clarity regarding the conditions where mitigation would (and conversely would not) be an appropriate intervention as opposed to other management strategies.
This Request for Proposals seeks to identify a contractor to complete this synthesis and report. The work will include compiling and synthesizing restoration and mitigation techniques, successes, and failures along the U.S. West Coast through literature reviews and interviews with restoration practitioners and researchers. 

Research questions shall include but not be limited to:
  • What is the context or background for each restoration project?
  • What factors contribute to the success and failure of techniques used in each eelgrass restoration project?
  • What kinds of monitoring are needed to document success or failure of eelgrass restoration?
  • How do regulatory, policy and budget factors impact success and failures?
  • To what extent are carbon sequestration and/or ocean acidification impacts incorporated into restoration efforts
  • Have there been any positive species interactions associated with restoration projects?
  • What kinds of monitoring are beneficial to document success or failure of eelgrass restoration?
Please refer to the full Request for Proposals for more details. 

The Request for Proposals can be accessed here. 
How to Respond
Please read the full Request for Proposals for instructions regarding what information to include and the preferred format for information. Incomplete or late proposals will not be considered. The deadline for proposals submissions is Friday, July 31, 2020 at 5:00PM PDT.