Execute a balanced science program based on discipline-specific guidance from the national academies of sciences engineering and medicine administration priorities and direction from congress

NASA's Shared Services Center awarded Cascadia Research Collective $204,868 on May 5, 2026, under the Science program (CFDA 43.001) to execute a balanced science program aligned with guidance from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine and Congressional direction. The project runs through May 4, 2030, with work performed in Olympia, Washington.

Cascadia Research Collective is a tax-exempt nonprofit marine research organization that delivers marine mammal research, stranding response operations, and cetacean population monitoring to federal agencies. The organization's core capabilities include cetacean photo-identification, marine mammal stranding and entanglement response, behavioral and population abundance research, and field-based data collection for endangered species management, with recent work focused on humpback, blue, fin, killer, and false killer whale research across the Pacific Northwest.

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