Project Grant F13AP00803

The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $162,499 Project Grant under the White-nose Syndrome National Response Implementation program (CFDA 15.684) to Northern Arizona University. The grant, awarded on March 1, 2025 with a completion date of March 31, 2027, will fund research to understand the progression and impacts of white-nose syndrome, a fungal disease caused by Pseudogymnoascus destructans, on bat populations in the western United States. The project will focus...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the White-nose Syndrome National Response Implementation program (CFDA 15.684) provides $195,000 to the University of Nebraska at Omaha to conduct a two-year continuous monitoring project. The project aims to characterize critical habitats and roosting areas in the central Great Plains region along the Missouri River for bat species severely impacted by white-nose syndrome, including the northern...

The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 5 awarded Northern Arizona University $291,660 under the White-nose Syndrome National Response Implementation program (CFDA 15.684) from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2024. The project aims to investigate the apparent delayed progression of white-nose syndrome in southwestern bat populations to better understand the invasion dynamics of this disease and determine what factors may be enabling bats in the region to persist...

The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 5 awarded a $132,710 Project Grant to Bioconciencia A.C. from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2024 under the White-nose Syndrome National Response Implementation program (CFDA 15.684). The grant will support continued efforts to document winter bat ecology in Mexico and assess potential entry and spread of Pseudogymnoascus destructans (Pd) fungus. Key activities include winter colony counts and searches for new bat hibernacula, with...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service, under the White-nose Syndrome National Response Implementation program (CFDA 15.684), aims to understand how the fungus Pseudogymnoascus destructans causes white-nose syndrome in hibernating bats. The $325,588 award to the University of Wisconsin - Madison will fund research to identify the key proteins or "adhesins" that enable the fungus to bind to and infect bat skin cells. This work...

This $149,336.26 federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service (under the Fish and Wildlife Coordination and Assistance program, CFDA 15.664) to South Dakota State University (SDSU) supports a 4-year research project to generate essential data on the presence, distribution, habitat needs, and prevalence of white-nose syndrome in bat species within South Dakota. Key activities include collecting and analyzing acoustic bat data at 50 sites,...

This $340,771 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the White-nose Syndrome National Response Implementation program (CFDA 15.684) supports Bat Conservation International, Inc. (BCI) in monitoring bat populations and white-nose syndrome (WNS) prevalence across Arizona, New Mexico, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, and the Mexican states of Coahuila and Nuevo Leon. The grant aims to 1) build a data pipeline for assessing WNS impacts on the Myotis...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, through the State Wildlife Grants (SWG) program (CFDA 15.634), awarded a $330,182 Project Grant to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (Minnesota DNR) on December 1, 2023. The grant funds will support a range of conservation activities focused on species of greatest conservation need identified in Minnesota's Wildlife Action Plan. Planned activities include wildlife surveys, habitat restoration, research, monitoring, population assessments, and...

This $1.78 million project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Environmental Biology will fund research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to develop strategies to mitigate white-nose syndrome (WNS), a lethal fungal disease decimating North American bat populations. Over three years, the university will interrogate how the fungal pathogen Pseudogymnoascus destructans (Pd) initiates infection by adhering to bat skin, using a first-of-its-kind keratinocyte cell line from...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $1,333,000 Project Grant under the Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.615) to the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP). The grant will fund the development of the first draft of a Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP) for four bat species impacted by white-nose syndrome: the Indiana bat, northern long-eared bat, little brown bat, and tricolored bat. The HCP will provide guidance for forest management activities on...