Cooperative Agreement F19AC00941

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) awarded a $511,109 Cooperative Agreement to Biodiversity Research Institute (BRI) under the Migratory Bird Monitoring, Assessment and Conservation federal grant program (CFDA 15.655). The project aims to further improve and expand upon the existing Stochastic Collision Risk Assessment for Movement (SCRAM) models and web application to support risk assessments and effects determinations for offshore wind facilities in the U.S. Atlantic. Key...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Biological Infrastructure, under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074), provides $827,019 to the University of Massachusetts to develop models and algorithms for inferring bird population movements from citizen science data. Leveraging billions of bird observations from the eBird citizen science project, the awardee will create computational tools to simulate migratory routes and produce movement...

The U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $666,705 Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation (CFDA 15.635) project grant to Associacao De Pesquisa E Preservacao De Ecoss Aquatico (Aquasis) in Brazil. The goal is to document habitat use and migratory movements of key shorebird species, including Red Knot, Short-billed Dowitcher, and Ruddy Turnstone, that utilize the Banco dos Cajuais, a regionally important non-breeding site. The objectives are to assess local...

This National Science Foundation award provides $159,259 to the University of Massachusetts Amherst through March 2024 to study the impacts of climate change and environmental pressures on long-distance migratory birds. Specifically, the award will support research tracking Hudsonian godwits throughout their annual migration cycle from Alaska to southern Chile using miniaturized tracking devices. The research aims to understand how changes occurring during different life cycle periods or...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) awarded a $101,100.95 Cooperative Agreement under the Migratory Bird Monitoring, Assessment and Conservation program (CFDA 15.655) to the Massachusetts Audubon Society, Inc. The 1-year project will assess the movements and habitat use of common terns within offshore wind energy areas (WEAs) in southern New England. The study will utilize GPS radio frequency (GPS-RF) tracking technology to collect data on breeding and staging movements of the terns, as...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, through the Migratory Bird Monitoring, Assessment and Conservation program (CFDA 15.655), awarded a $113,820 Cooperative Agreement to Clemson University to conduct research on the endangered Black-capped Petrel (BCPE). The project aims to improve understanding of the BCPE's at-sea habitat use, movement patterns, and migration paths by tagging birds with solar-powered satellite tags. This data will assist with the designation of critical habitat and...

This $1,190,156.56 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) under the Migratory Bird Monitoring, Assessment and Conservation program (CFDA 15.655) will fund staff and associated expenses to support the USFWS Division of Migratory Birds in the Northeast Region with activities related to offshore renewable energy projects. The key products and services to be delivered under this award include: Hiring multiple renewable energy biologists within the USFWS...

This Project Grant award of $924,137 from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports research by the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences to develop new modeling approaches to understand and predict the impacts of climate change on the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale. The key products/services to be delivered include: Developing an individual movement model to identify prey density thresholds that drive right whale foraging decisions...

This $753,082 three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports research at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution to understand how behavioral adaptations in foraging effort by wandering albatrosses and black-browed albatrosses may mitigate population declines due to climate change. The grant funds development of eco-evolutionary matrix population models incorporating climate scenarios to forecast population trends and persistence...

This two-year, $486,243 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will support research examining the impacts of ocean warming and thermal stratification on seabird populations globally. The Farallon Institute will analyze existing long-term data on plankton, small fish, and seabird breeding success across oceans to develop models linking thermal stratification at various ocean depths to productivity. Results aim to identify seabird species best suited...