Project Grant F21AP03590

This Project Grant award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), under the Marine Mammal Data Program (CFDA 11.439), provides $134,896 to the University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA) to strengthen Alaska's marine mammal stranding program. The key products and services delivered through this one-year award include: Continuing to fund a statewide stranding coordinator to lead Level A-C stranding responses, improve data and sample management, and perform high-quality necropsies...

This Project Grant award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Marine Mammal Data Program (CFDA 11.439) provides $177,595.00 to Oregon State University to facilitate the response to, treatment of, and data collection from living and dead stranded marine mammals along the Oregon coast. The proposed activities include continued investigations of dead animals to include diagnostics and tissue archiving, continued response to entangled live pinnipeds and whales,...

This Project Grant award from the Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration provides $286,592 to Oregon State University to support activities under the Marine Mammal Data Program. The funding will facilitate response to, treatment of, and data collection from living and dead stranded marine mammals found along the Oregon coast through November 2023. Specifically, the university will continue investigations of dead animals including diagnostics and tissue...

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 Project Grant award of $266,894 from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will fund the Alaska Sealife Center to maintain its marine mammal stranding response capabilities in Alaska through September 2023. Specifically, the Center will admit, care for, and release stranded marine mammals when possible in Alaska, assisting with stranding events. Through monitoring stranded patients, the Center will test for diseases and effects of warming ocean conditions in the state. The...

The University of Hawaii at Manoa received a two-year, $133,334 Project Grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration under the Marine Mammal Data Program to conduct stranding response, necropsy, and cause of death investigations in Hawaii and the greater Pacific region through September 2023. The Marine Mammal Data Program provides non-discretionary funding to state agencies for collecting and analyzing data on marine mammals within state waters that interact with state-managed...

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 $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...

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 Project Grant award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Marine Mammal Data Program (CFDA 11.439) provides $200,107.00 to Portland State University to support comprehensive response to dead marine mammals, provide diagnostic and archival sampling, continue unusual mortality event (UME) and post-UME monitoring, document live entangled pinnipeds, and work with local pathology labs to detect disease in marine mammals within the university's stranding...