Project Grant F20AP12100

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...

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 $325,588 from March 1, 2025 to February 28, 2027 to the University of Wisconsin - Madison for research to understand how the fungus Pseudogymnoascus destructans causes white-nose syndrome in hibernating bats. The key objectives are to identify the specific proteins or "adhesins" on the surface of...

This $162,499 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 research to understand variations in white-nose syndrome susceptibility among bat species in the western United States. The project, led by Northern Arizona University, will focus on surveillance of the white-nose syndrome fungus Pseudogymnoascus destructans in western Myotis bat species across...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service awarded Oregon State University (OSU) a $385,709 Project Grant under the White-nose Syndrome National Response Implementation program (CFDA 15.684) to advance solutions for controlling the fungal pathogen Pseudogymnoascus destructans, which causes white-nose syndrome in North American bat populations. The key products and services to be delivered through this 20-month grant include: Evaluating the lack of non-target effects of the proposed gene-silencing...

The University of Wyoming, through its Sponsored Programs department, was awarded a $149,500 Project Grant by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the White-nose Syndrome National Response Implementation program (CFDA 15.684). The grant will fund a vaccination efficacy trial for endangered Northern long-eared bats in the Bearlodge Mountains of Wyoming. Key activities include capturing bats at water sources and summer roosts, administering oral white-nose syndrome vaccines or placebo...

The U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $187,030 Project Grant under the White-nose Syndrome National Response Implementation program (CFDA 15.684) to the University of Illinois. The funding supports a range-wide population genomic assessment of the little brown bat (Myotis lucifugus) to establish baseline population parameters, delineate subpopulations, examine gene flow, and assess the impacts of threats like white-nose syndrome, wind turbine mortality,...

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 $325,110 to the University of Montana to investigate genetic factors and environmental drivers affecting different disease outcomes in two subspecies of the Cave Myotis bat in response to the devastating white-nose syndrome fungal disease. The key products and services to be delivered under this 2-year award...

This federal 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 in funding 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 along the Missouri River for bat species severely impacted by white-nose syndrome, including the...

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 federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the White-nose Syndrome National Response Implementation program (CFDA 15.684) provides $340,771 to Bat Conservation International, Inc. (BCI) for a 2-year period from March 1, 2025 to March 31, 2027. The funding will support efforts to monitor bat populations and conduct disease surveillance across the range of the cave myotis (Myotis velifer) in five U.S. states (Arizona, New Mexico, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas) and...