Project Grant F20AP11046

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program provides $199,722 to Oregon State University (OSU) to investigate the cause of an unusual mussel mortality event observed along the Oregon and northern California coasts in 2023. The research aims to determine if the mortality, which involves scattered single dead mussels rather than mass die-offs, is linked to a harmful algal bloom. The project involves monthly water sampling to identify dinoflagellate...

The Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service has awarded a $200,000 Project Grant under the Prescott Marine Mammal Rescue Assistance Grant Program (CFDA 15.683) to The Marine Mammal Center, a non-profit organization and veterinary hospital in Sausalito, California. The grant funding will be used to sustain, enhance, and expand the Center's work supporting the recovery and growth of the endangered southern sea otter population along the California coast. Key objectives include...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program, provides $459,353 to the University of Toledo to conduct research on the discovery and characterization of novel cyanotoxins produced during harmful cyanobacterial blooms. The key objectives are to: 1) optimize high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) with native fluorescence detection and mass spectrometry (MS/MS) for structural...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $208,426 Project Grant under the Prescott Marine Mammal Rescue Assistance program (CFDA 15.683) to the Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation to provide essential response, rehabilitation, and conservation services for the southern sea otter population in California. Key objectives include: Coordinating with stranding network partners to handle approximately 150 sea otter stranding reports annually. Collecting and reporting data on approximately 50 deceased...

This $200,000 federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) under the Prescott Marine Mammal Rescue Assistance Grant Program (CFDA 15.683) supports the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) to provide the following key services: Live sea otter stranding response and triage, including specialized expertise in sea otter handling, oil spill response, and disentanglement efforts. Thorough workups of fresh dead sea otters to assess condition and ship...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) was awarded a $1.76 million cooperative agreement by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Center for Sponsored Coastal Ocean Research Coastal Ocean Program (CFDA 11.478) effective June 1, 2025, through May 31, 2030. The award funds a collaborative research initiative with Alaska Native tribal governments to investigate harmful algal bloom (HAB) toxin accumulation and paralytic...

The Ohio Department of Health (ODH), in collaboration with other Ohio state agencies, will collect and analyze composite fish tissue and concurrent surface water samples from the Lake Erie Basin under a $152,925 Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 Project Grant awarded on May 15, 2021. The two-year grant project will expand knowledge about the uptake of cyanotoxins by fish exposed to harmful algal blooms and update fish consumption advisories and public health messaging. This work...

Grant Award Summary The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded $333,188 through the Cooperative Research Program (CFDA 11.472) to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game to conduct population monitoring and vital rate assessments of the endangered Western Distinct Population Segment (WDPS) of Steller sea lions (SSL) in Alaska. Effective January 1, 2026, through February 28, 2027, this project will continue a long-term monitoring initiative that has tracked over 9,000...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded $133,332 to the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego through the Marine Mammal Data Program (CFDA 11.439) for the period October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2026. This project grant supports comprehensive analysis of NOAA's frozen organ archives to establish baseline data on microplastics contamination in marine mammals and assess their correlation...

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...