Guidelines for Project Reporting
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Our web site is not currently available for submission of your Report, please send an electronic copy (Word or text file) via email to:

Phil Mankin
pmankin@illinois.edu

You will be contacted if any hard copies are required.

The Sea Grant program appreciates your timely assistance with this important reporting requirement and looks forward to receiving your information.

Annual/Final Report Instructions
Please include all items listed below.

• Report Type
  Indicate whether "Annual" or "Final" report.
   

• Title of Project
   

• Year of Report
   - if Annual, use calendar year of the report
   - if Final, leave blank.
   

• Completion Date
  For Final only.  If no-cost extension was approved, use the ending date of extension.
   

• Principal Investigator
  Include name, title, institution, address, city, state, zip code, telephone, fax, and email.
   

• Co-Principal Investigator(s)
  Include name, title, institution, address, city, state, zip code, telephone, fax, and email.
   

• Abstract
  Summarize project and accomplishments or results (250 words).
   

• Introduction
  Include goals and objectives of the project.
   

• Narrative Report
  Annual report - The narrative should be approximately 1-2 pages.  For this section, we are interested actions and accomplishment during the calendar year.
  
  Final report - the narrative should include methods, results, conclusions, recommendations, and other pertinent information.  Focus on the project's activities and accomplishments in context of the overall project's goals.  There is a limit of 20,000 characters or about 20 double spaced pages.
   

• Potential Applications or Benefits (This includes effects this project had on industry development and productivity, resource management, user group behavior and/or scientific advancement).
  Be sure to include benefits, commercialization, and application of project results, scientific/technical advice, etc.
   

• Keywords
  Include a short list of keywords for indexing
   

• Lay Summary
  A brief summary, 1-2 paragraphs, of your research project and important findings that would be understandable by a lay person.
   

• International Implications
  If applicable to your report
   

• Media Coverage
  This includes radio, TV, newspaper, and magazine coverage.  Please send copies of clippings if possible.
   

• Partnerships with other institutions/individuals initiated or continued by your project
  This includes related projects with other institutions or individuals resulting from this Sea Grant-sponsored research.
   

• Publications (if applicable)
  This includes journal publications (submit full reference and spell out journal title), reports, papers presented at conferences, poster presentation prepared by project staff and specifically resulting from Sea Grant-funded research during the project.  Please submit a reprint of all publications to the IL-IN Sea Grant Office as they become available.  Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant Program support should be acknowledged in all resulting publications and presentations.
   

• Undergraduate/Graduate Names and degree
  Include the name of all undergraduate and graduate students supported by this grant and the degree pursued/earned.  These or dissertations should be clearly identified as such, with author, title, degree, campus, and date.
   

• Related Projects
  This includes grants from other funding agencies that resulted, as least in part, from this Sea-Grant sponsored research (i.e., leveraged funds).  Please include the title of the project, funding agency, amount of new funding, and years of award.

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  Awards and Honors
  Please list all awards and honors received within the time period covered by this annual report.
   

• Patents/Licenses
  List any patents or patent licenses that have resulted from this project.
   

• Graphs, figures and/or photos
  All accompanying visual aids should be embedded in your document.  If you wish to send a high-res image file, you may need to email separately or send on a CD if size is a limiting factor.
  
  Please identify which project the graphs or photos belong with and where they should be located in your report.  Please recognize that we may wish to include your photographs in our publications with the appropriate credits.
   

• Questions or Problems?
  If you need additional information, answers, or have questions concerning our reporting and grant requirements, please contact Phil Mankin at 217-244-6916 or pmankin@illinois.edu