Cooperative Agreement W911KB2420006

This Project Grant awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Congressionally Identified Awards and Projects program (CFDA 11.469) will fund three projects to monitor the migratory behaviors, overwintering areas, and movements of Kenai River Chinook salmon juveniles and smolt into the Kenai River estuary. The award will also support estimation of annual smolt abundance, marine survival, and the influence of size and outmigration timing of Anchor River or...

This Project Grant award from the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 9 Headquarters, under the Prescott Marine Mammal Rescue Assistance (CFDA 15.683) program, provides $199,890 to Wildlife Research International, Inc. (dba Wildlife Research) from June 30, 2023 to May 31, 2026. The project will address Prescott Program Category B priorities for northern sea otters in Alaska and Washington by implementing and coordinating oiled sea otter contingency planning, training, and...

This Project Grant award, valued at $134,896.00 and provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Marine Mammal Data Program (CFDA 11.439), supports the continued strengthening of Alaska's marine mammal stranding program. Key deliverables include: Funding a statewide stranding coordinator to oversee Level A-C responses, enhance data and sample management, and maintain surveillance and analysis for harmful algal blooms and infectious diseases. Organizing data...

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), under its Research and Data Collection program (CFDA 15.808), awarded a $132,621 Cooperative Agreement to the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) to conduct research on the impacts of climate change on the summer behavior and distribution of the Porcupine caribou herd in Arctic Alaska. The project aims to: 1) identify the influence of climate on caribou summer habitat conditions and predict future changes, 2) determine how climate-driven summer conditions...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Unallied Science Program (CFDA 11.472) provides $197,595 to the University of Alaska Fairbanks to reduce or eliminate killer whale mortalities and serious injuries caused by net entanglements in the Bering Sea deep-water flatfish trawl fishery. The project involves continued development and implementation of a gear modification, including field research aboard trawl vessels, evaluation of...

The Alaska Sealife Center received a $126,917 Project Grant award from the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 9 Headquarters to conduct live stranding response and monitoring of northern sea otters and walruses in Alaska from October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2022. The funding supports the Prescott Marine Mammal Rescue Assistance program, which provides financial assistance for response, recovery, rescue, treatment, and release of certain marine mammal species, as...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Cooperative Institute (Inter-Agency Funded Activities) program (CFDA 11.405) provides $198,678.00 to Oregon State University to quantify the abundance and spatial distribution of salmon predator species, including marine birds and mammals, in the Columbia River plume region during salmon outmigration and return migration. The study will utilize thermal cameras and artificial intelligence to...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded a $105,991.77 Project Grant to the University of Alaska Anchorage Grants and Contracts Office through the Marine Mammal Data Program (CFDA 11.439). The grant funding supports the University of Alaska Anchorage in providing a statewide stranding coordinator for Alaska to strengthen the state's marine mammal stranding program at response levels A through C. This includes improved data and sample management for marine mammals that occur in...

The University of Alaska Anchorage will receive $266,668 under a one-year Project Grant award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to support marine mammal data collection and analysis efforts in Alaska through the Marine Mammal Data Program. Specifically, the funding will support the continued work of a stranding coordinator to facilitate necropsy sampling, sample management and data analysis for diseases such as influenza, morbillivirus and coronavirus in marine mammals...

This $170,879 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) supports a research project led by the University of California San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The project aims to examine how oceanographic variables may influence the distribution and habitat preferences of various cetacean species (whales, dolphins, and porpoises) around the South Shetland Islands from 2014 to 2016. The research will utilize previously collected passive...