Advancing marine animal movement studies by incentivizing the collection and submission of satellite taggingresearch data to the U.S. Animal telemetry network (ATN) data assembly center (DAC)

This federal Project Grant award for $150,000.00 was provided by the Office of Naval Research under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research (CFDA 12.300) program. The purpose of the grant is to advance marine animal movement studies by incentivizing the collection and submission of satellite tagging research data to the U.S. Animal Telemetry Network (ATN) Data Assembly Center. The award recipient, The Woods Hole Group, Inc., is an environmental, scientific, and engineering consulting firm that specializes in real-time monitoring systems, software engineering, and satellite tracking services. The performance period for this grant is from Aug 1, 2024 to Jul 31, 2025. This award builds upon the company's previous Project Grant funding from the Office of Naval Research, totaling $600,000, to support the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program and contribute to naval-relevant scientific research.