Project Grant N000142412451

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...

This Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Unallied Science Program (CFDA 11.472), aims to advance the state of telemetry tag technology for monitoring North Atlantic right whales (NARW). The $679,552 project, with a period of performance from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2027, will focus on developing a new bioinspired adhesive mounting tag platform to enable longer-duration attachment of telemetry sensors on cetaceans. Key...

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...

The University of Hawaii's Health and Stranding Lab will receive a $132,980 Cooperative Agreement award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Unallied Management Projects (CFDA 11.454) program. The award will fund the lab's first-time efforts to conduct hormone analysis on Hawaiian Islands insular false killer whales, one of the rarest and most studied marine mammals. This work will calculate pregnancy and calving rates to enhance understanding of the species'...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) provides $508,536 to Syracuse University to study the feeding behavior and movement patterns of endangered North Atlantic right whales and sei whales in Massachusetts Bay and Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary. The project aims to collect data on whale feeding activities and prey distribution to better forecast high-risk foraging periods and locations, in order to alert vessels...

This Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Cooperative Institute (Inter-Agency Funded Activities) program (CFDA 11.405), aims to develop operational forecasting tools to enhance the resilience of protected species in the California Current Large Marine Ecosystem in response to climate variability and change. The $888,305 project, running from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2027, will focus on two key activities: 1)...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Polar Programs (CFDA 47.078) provides $170,879 to the University of California San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography to study the relationship between oceanographic conditions and the occurrence of cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and porpoises) near the South Shetland Islands from 2014-2016. The project will leverage previously collected passive acoustic monitoring data and satellite imagery to examine how environmental...

This $149,800 Project Grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will support Maritime Applied Physics Corporation, doing business as Blacksea Technologies, in developing technologies to help protect endangered marine mammals from ship strikes and fishing gear entanglements. Through its Small Business Innovation Research Program, NOAA aims to stimulate technological solutions to federal research needs. Under this award beginning September 2021 and set to conclude in...

This Project Grant award of $339,584 from the Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will support the Hubbs-Sea World Research Institute in enhancing data collection, analysis, and reporting related to stranded marine mammals in California and the mid-Atlantic region from August 1, 2022 through July 31, 2023. Specifically, the awardee will work to improve the quality, quantity, and sharing of data from stranded marine mammals under the NOAA Marine Mammal Data...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded a $530,000 project grant to Washington Maritime Blue under the Unallied Management Projects program (CFDA 11.454) to strengthen the Whale Report Alert System from September 2021 through December 2022. The grantee will evaluate current utilization of the alert system, which notifies large commercial vessels of Southern Resident killer whale presence to help reduce acoustic and physical disturbance. They will enhance the system through...