Address gaps in surveillance and investigation activities for sars-COV-2 in animals, including farmed animals, captive wildlife, free-ranging wildlife, and companion animals

The spasak project will fill surveillance gaps fing and a master?S student. UAF will also support project outreach, investigations of SC2FINDINGS in animals, and dissemination of research findings. Subaward costs: $85,821 Y1, $68,665 Y2 ($154,486 total costs).); NSB (NSB sub-agreement needed for objectives 1-4. DR. Stimmelmayr is a liaison to NSB communities, (OBJ. 1 & 4), a stakeholder with access to sampling networks (OBJ. 2-3), and researcher with many years of expertise working with indigenous communities to contribute to OBJ. 4 and investigations of community animal health concerns. NSB will also host a contract for veterinary diagnostics including histopathology tosupport targeted investigations of community animal health concerns (giving back to the communities as a critical component of participatory surveillance). Subaward costs: $143,859 Y1, $129,932 Y2 ($273,791 total costs). ); WCS canada (WCS canada sub-agreement will provide subject matter expertise for objectives 1-4. Will hold contract with uofc to support susan kutz time and travel. Subaward costs: $105,643 Y1, $17,688 Y2 ($123,332 total costs).) and a contract for database management (this contract will support project database management for objectives 1-4; $4,700 Y1, $4 ,841 Y1 ($9,541 total costs). )