Complete only the sections itemized here.

Title: Project titles should be carefully constructed to give as much information about the project as possible in not more than two lines (about 16 words) preferably less. The National Office will truncate titles greater than 16 words. Remember that there will be people who will judge the content of a program from scanning a list of titles. The title should be specific and descriptive of the activity, and should minimize the mention of geographic names.

Initiation Date: Insert the date on which Sea Grant support is to be initiated.

Completion Date: Insert the date on which it is estimated that the project will be completed.

Project or Co-Project Leader(s): Insert the name of the project leader The last name should be entered first. Please include the full first name and middle initial, e.g., Smith, Alpha B.

Affiliation: Insert the academic affiliation of the project leaders, (e.g., Northwestern University, Biology; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Civil Engineering).

Associate Investigator(s): Insert the names of associates whose efforts are significant to the success of the project. For definitions of personnel categories, see the "Preparing Budget Forms" section. Follow the same rules for entering the names as were used for project leader(s) above.

Affiliation: Same as for the project leaders.

Effort: The total number of months the investigators spend on a project.

Parent Project(s): Insert the project number(s) of other Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant project(s) begun (or completed) earlier, from which this project was derived. The intent is to build a record of continuity. For example, the project may be to establish economic feasibility of a scheme and be a follow-up to a project which established technical feasibility.

Keywords: Select keywords that may be helpful in recovering your record in a computer search conducted by the Sea Grant Program. Please try to limit the amount of words to ten and list keywords in alphabetical order.

Objectives: This section should state concisely what the project leader will undertake. Preferably the objectives should be stated so that it can be later determined whether or not they have in fact been accomplished.

The objectives section should begin with the word "To" followed by a verb stating the specific objectives and the practical ("real world") purpose of the project. (These can be written in scientific or technical language.)

In keeping with Sea Grant's mission, the most appropriate verbs are: test (the hypothesis), develop, provide, determine, isolate, characterize, identify, restore, implement. Less desirable but sometimes appropriate are: promote, conduct, analyze, apply, investigate, examine, describe. Some words, such as study, consider, continue, should not be used since failure to do these is indeterminable.

Methodology: This section should be brief indicating the methodology or showing sub-objectives that indicate the approach to be taken in meeting the project objective(s).

Specific questions that an interested person would ask should be answered under 'Objectives' or 'Methodology,' such as, which heavy metals? Which pollutants? Which pathogens? What species of fish? What kind of a model?