Cooperative Agreement L17AC00082

This federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the Fish and Wildlife Coordination and Assistance program (CFDA 15.664) provides $370,000 to Pronatura Noroeste, a non-profit conservation organization, to expand the assessment of the conservation status of the Pacific Red Knot (Calidris canutus roselaari) at key non-breeding sites in northwest Mexico. The primary objectives are to estimate the population size and trend, annual survival, and migratory movements of...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $3,176,250 Cooperative Agreement to the American Bird Conservancy (ABC) under the Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration (NRDAR) Program (CFDA 15.658). This 5-year project, starting February 2024, will work to stabilize and increase beach-nesting bird populations in Texas through habitat protection, stewardship, outreach, and monitoring activities. The project focuses on U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Birds of Conservation Concern and...

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 federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.615) provides $151,655.72 to the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources to monitor the status of the threatened Eastern Black Rail in coastal South Carolina and promote targeted habitat management to benefit the species. The grant will fund complete call and response surveys on SCDNR properties where prior Black Rail detections have occurred,...

The University of Saskatchewan received a $169,683 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the Migratory Bird Joint Ventures program (CFDA 15.637). The award will fund a 3-year effort to explore black duck breeding biology and habitat use to benefit existing work on black ducks throughout their annual cycle. Key objectives include deploying 104 GPS tracking devices on black ducks, adapting machine learning algorithms to identify breeding and...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 4 under the Coastal program (CFDA 15.630) provides $100,000 in funding from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2028. The purpose of the project is to establish a plan for conserving the federally and state threatened Eastern Black Rail (Laterallus jamaicensis jamaicensis) as coastal habitats change. Key activities include surveying for Eastern Black Rails in identified high marsh areas...

The Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded a $170,000 Project Grant to Central Coast Salmon Enhancement, Inc. under the Unallied Management Projects program (CFDA 11.454). The two-year award running from September 2021 through August 2023 will support the organization's "DIVING CATCH 2: SAVING WHITE AND BLACK ABALONE THROUGH CONSERVATION AQUACULTURE" project. This project aims to provide economic, sociological, public policy, and other...

The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 4 awarded a $121,500 Cooperative Agreement under the Endangered Species Recovery Implementation Program (CFDA 15.657) to the Natural Resources South Carolina Department. The project aims to apply new genetic tools and reanalyze existing datasets to identify optimal foraging habitat characteristics for the federally listed red knot shorebird along the South Carolina coast. The project team will work with stakeholders to develop a...

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...

Shellfish Solutions Inc., doing business as Oystertracker, received a $500,000 Project Grant award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program (CFDA 11.021) to develop the Tide to Table Traceability and Marketing System. The two-year project will create a traceability and marketing platform to track shellfish from harvest locations through processing and distribution to support sustainable aquaculture and seafood...