Timeline

Year-by-year milestones, September 2026 through August 2031

The project runs two full breeding-to-field cycles over five years. Milestones below are as committed in the approved project plan. This page is updated as milestones are met.

Year 1 · 2026–2027

• Governance established; trainees recruited
• Stakeholder Advisory Board formalized; commercial MOUs signed
• Broodstock conditioning and priming begin at all three coastal sites
• Baseline metabolic phenotyping complete
• Shared data schemas and GitHub organization established; PRISM Portal wireframes

Year 2 · 2027–2028

• Cycle 1 spawning: pedigreed families from primed and control parents
• Field deployments begin at contrasting sites on all three coasts
• First regional workshops
• Prototype dashboard delivered; Stakeholder Advisory Board review
• Trainee rotations start; formative evaluation

Year 3 · 2028–2029

• 12-month Cycle 1 field performance data complete
• Cycle 2 launched with refined protocols
• Machine-learning predictive models trained
• Beta dashboard and PRISM Portal released
• Sustainability planning begins

Year 4 · 2029–2030

• Models and priming protocols validated on independent Cycle 2 data
• Dashboard and PRISM Portal publicly released
• ADAPT micro-credential piloted
• At least 3 hatcheries priming commercially
• Second formative evaluation

Year 5 · 2030–2031

• National capstone workshop
• Final publications, target of at least 8
• Implementation manuals and cost–benefit analyses delivered
• Open data and code repositories released
• Summative external evaluation and final report

Standing commitments

Quarterly all-investigator teleconferences, semi-annual Stakeholder Advisory Board meetings, an annual in-person meeting at a rotating partner site, and annual NIFA progress reports.