Project Grant N000141713018

This Project Grant award of $924,137 from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports research by the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences to develop new modeling approaches to understand and predict the impacts of climate change on the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale. The key products/services to be delivered include: Developing an individual movement model to identify prey density thresholds that drive right whale foraging decisions...

This $137,133 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports collaborative research by the University of California, Merced and the University of Alaska Fairbanks. The research aims to reconstruct the interactions and dynamics of ancient marine ecosystems, focusing on the evolution of large marine organisms like baleen whales during periods of climate change and resource exploitation. The project will...

This two-year, $325,773 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs, under the Polar Programs federal grant program (CFDA 47.078), will support research reconstructing baleen whale movement and foraging ecology using archived natural history collections. The University of Rhode Island will analyze stable isotopes in baleen preserved in museums and from stranded whales to gain insights into whales' migration patterns and foraging behavior over years....

This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $123,550 awarded to the University of South Carolina, under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), supports research to develop new modeling techniques to predict shifts in the foraging patterns and spatial distribution of the endangered North Atlantic right whale in response to climate change. The key products of this 3-year project include: An integrated modeling framework that combines whale movement data, prey surveys, and genetic...

This two-year, $465,684 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Polar Programs will support research exploring the role of bubble-net feeding cultural innovations in humpback whale populations in the Antarctic Peninsula region. The University of California Santa Cruz will leverage long-term data from the LTER study on the western Antarctic Peninsula, including from animal-borne tags, behavioral observations, biopsies, photo-identification, and drone footage. Researchers will model...

Summary of DWH Marine Mammal Noise Reduction Restoration Project The University of Miami, through its Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies (CIMAS), received a $1.66M cooperative agreement from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Cooperative Institute (Inter-Agency Funded Activities) program (CFDA 11.405) to conduct the DWH Marine Mammal Noise Reduction Restoration Project. The five-year award, effective October 1, 2025 through September 30,...

This Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences Program (CFDA 47.049), supports collaborative research between the University of California - Merced and the University of Alaska Fairbanks to reconstruct the dynamics of ancient marine ecosystems. The $112,243 award, spanning May 2025 to August 2027, aims to uncover how marine communities have responded to climate change and resource exploitation in the past, focusing on the...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) Project Grant in the amount of $376,582 awarded to Florida International University (FIU) will support a collaborative international research effort titled "WHALEADAPT: Adaptation of Vulnerable Subsistence-Based North Atlantic Communities to Marine Mammal Redistribution under Climate Change." The project aims to investigate the past, present, and future distribution and abundance of North Atlantic toothed...

This Project Grant award for $178,118 from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will support research to evaluate the impacts of climate-mediated shifts in prey quality on predator bioenergetics and productivity. The award, effective May 1, 2025 through April 30, 2027, will fund a study using common terns in the Gulf of Maine as a model system. The project aims to 1) assess the relationship between annual prey quality and population-level productivity, and 2)...

This Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Unallied Science Program (CFDA 11.472), is aimed at building a near real-time modeling system to predict the density of the endangered North Atlantic right whale (NARW) population along the U.S. Eastern Seaboard. The $1,381,943 award to Duke University will support the development and testing of this system, which will link visual and acoustic observations of right whales with...