The Fishadelphia team. Credit: Dr. Talia Young.
Pair of bottlenose dolphins. Credit: NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center/Lisa Morse.
Fiscal Year 2022 Prescott Grant Proposals Received
For the fiscal year 2022, 56 eligible Prescott Grant proposals were received totaling $4,935,843 from 20 states and one tribe, representing marine mammal stranding network partners from every Fisheries Region.
| State | Applicant | Project Title | Federal Funding Requested |
|---|---|---|---|
| AK | Alaska Department of Fish & Game | Expand Capacity for Level A Data Collection in Cook Inlet Alaska and Recruit New Responders | $52,724 |
| AK | Seward Association for the Advancement of Marine Science dba Alaska Sealife Center | Funding for Wildlife Response Operations and Training Remote Responders in Alaska | $99,974 |
| AK | Sun'aq Tribe of Kodiak | Training Stranding Network Members to Live Capture and Disentangle Stellers Sea Lions around the Northern Kodiak Archipelago, Alaska | $84,298 |
| AK | University of Alaska, Anchorage | Continued Strengthening of Alaska's Marine Mammal Stranding Program through a Statewide Stranding Coordinator for Level A-C Response with Improved Data and Sample Management | $100,000 |
| AL | Marine Environmental Sciences Consortium | Investigation Success of Stranded Marine Mammal Surveillance by the Public, Trained Response Staff, and Unoccupied Aerial Surveys | $32,467 |
| CA | California Academy of Sciences | Increasing Undergraduate Opportunities in Marine Mammal Stranding Response at the California Academy of Sciences | $53,917 |
| CA | Channel Islands Cetacean Research Unit | Support for CICRU's Cetacean Response Activities | $99,486 |
| CA | Channel Islands Marine and Wildlife Institute | Critical Support for Vital Staff Positions Needed to Maintain and Enhance Response, Data Collection, Reporting, Outreach, Education, and Training | $99,840 |
| CA | Friends of the Sea Lion dba Pacific Marine Mammal Center | Necropsy Support, Cause of Death Determination, and Portable Diagnostic Equipment for Stranding Response in Orange County, California | $87,175 |
| CA | Humboldt State University Sponsored Programs Foundation | Continued Critical Support for a Diverse and Inclusive Dead Marine Mammal Stranding Response Community in Northern California | $96,942 |
| CA | Marine Mammal Care Center Los Angeles | Supporting Education for All Learners (SEAL) | $100,000 |
| CA | National Marine Mammal Foundation | Epigenetic Aging in Pinnipeds; Exploring Northern Elephant Seals as a Model for Endangered Hawaiian Monk Seals | $100,000 |
| CA | Northcoast Marine Mammal Center | Staffing, Training and Operations Support for Marine Mammal Stranding and Rehabilitation | $97,877 |
| CA | Ocean Animal Response and Research Alliance (OARRA) | Filling the Gap, Support for a Dedicated Marine Mammal Mortality Response Program in Southern California, Los Angeles County. | $99,921 |
| CA | The Marine Mammal Center | Establishing Renal Function Parameters and Pathology in California Sea Lions | $100,000 |
| CA | The Regents of the University of California, Santa Cruz | Supporting Marine Mammal Stranding Response on the Central California Coast | $92,696 |
| CT | Sea Research Foundation dba Mystic Aquarium | Enhance Response and Data Collection in CT, RI, and Fishers Island, NY and to Increase Network Collaboration and Data Sharing | $99,999 |
| CT | Sea Research Foundation dba Mystic Aquarium | Molecular Indicators of Health as Potential Tools to Improve Health Diagnostics in Rehabilitating Seals | $98,842 |
| DE | Marine Education, Research & Rehabilitation Institute, Inc. | Provide Essential Personnel to Adequately Respond to Current and Emerging Trends in Marine Mammal Strandings, Including an Expanding Seal Population and the Advent of Seal Pupping in Delaware | $93,100 |
| FL | Florida Fish & Wildlife Commission | Critical Support for the Southwest Florida Stranding Coordinator and Enhanced Response to Large Whale and Mass Strandings throughout Florida | $97,432 |
| FL | Hubbs-Sea World Research Institute | Critical Support for High-Level Cetacean Stranding Response and Enhanced Training and Preparedness along the Most Active Region of Florida's East Coast | $99,980 |
| FL | Marine Animal Rescue Society, Inc. | Marine Mammal Field Response and Necropsy Support | $29,479 |
| FL | Mote Marine Laboratory, Inc. | Rapid Detection and Response to Cetacean Strandings and Small Cetacean Disentanglements in Central Western Florida and Capacity Building for Large Whale Recovery, Necropsy for Greater Florida | $99,957 |
| FL | University of Florida | A Multidisciplinary Approach to Marine Mammal Death Investigations Using Forensic Science | $91,079 |
| HI | Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources | Ensuring Capacity for the State of Hawai'i and NOAA's Continued Stranding and Entanglement Response Partnership | $90,645 |
| HI | The Marine Mammal Center | Hawaiian Monk Seal Rehabilitation Program | $100,000 |
| HI | University of Hawaii | Stranding Response, Necropsy, and Cause of Death Investigations for the Pacific Island Cetaceans and the Development of a Diverse and Inclusive Internship Program | $99,990 |
| HI | West Hawai'i Aquatic Large Entanglement Response Network | West Hawai'i Aquatic Large Entanglement Response Network, 2022 | $10,425 |
| IL | Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | Centralized Diagnostic Testing and Histopathology Support for the Marine Mammal Health and Stranding Network and Unusual Mortality Events | $86,468 |
| LA | Audubon Nature Institute | Coastal Wildlife Network: Critical Support for Response and Enhancing Louisiana's Marine Mammal Stranding Program | $98,743 |
| MA | International Fund for Animal Welfare, Inc. | Diagnosing Capture Myopathy in Stranded Small Cetaceans | $99,101 |
| MA | National Marine Life Center | Ensuring the Continuation of Seal Rehabilitation in New England | $99,999 |
| MA | Whale and Dolphin Conservation, Inc. | Operation Support for Marine Mammal Stranding Response (MMSRP) in Southeast Massachusetts | $77,407 |
| MD | National Aquarium, Inc. | Enhancement of Stranding Response along Maryland's Atlantic Coast with the Addition of Seal Triage | $54,892 |
| ME | College of the Atlantic | Operation Support for the Marine Mammal Stranding Response Program (MMSRP) for the Mid-coast/Downeast Region of Maine, 2022-2023 | $99,986 |
| ME | Marine Mammals of Maine | Supporting Pinniped and Cetacean Stranding Response and Sustaining Pinniped Triage and Rehabilitation Capacity in the Northeastern U.S. | $100,000 |
| ME | University of Maine System | Investigation Pinniped Susceptibility to Viral Disease Outbreaks Through Diagnostic Analyses and Post Unusual Mortality Event Monitoring | $99,988 |
| NC | North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality | Marine Mammal Stranding Response in Central Coastal and Central and Northern Sounds of North Carolina with Current and Post Unusual Mortality Event and Fishery Interaction Surveillance | $99,755 |
| NC | The University of North Carolina at Wilmington | Response to Marine Mammal Strandings in Southern North Carolina with Emphasis on Bottlenose Dolphin Post Unusual Mortality Event Monitoring, Human Interaction Diagnosis in Support of the Bottlenose Dolphin Take Reduction Program | $99,535 |
| NH | Seacoast Science Center, Inc. | Improving Effectiveness, Quality and Community Understanding of Marine Mammal Response and Rescue in New Hampshire and Northeastern Massachusetts | $47,932 |
| NJ | Marine Mammal Stranding Center | Operational Support and Enhancements for Marine Mammal Stranding Response and Rehabilitation and Increasing Community Outreach Efforts in New Jersey | $98,524 |
| NY | Atlantic Marine Conservation Society | Continued Support for Large Whale, Dolphin, and Seal Response in the New York Bight | $100,000 |
| NY | Atlantic Marine Conservation Society | Increasing Capacity for Large Whale Response in the Greater Atlantic Region: Preparing for the New Normal | $60,277 |
| NY | Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation | Enhancement of New York's Marine Mammal Stranding Program in Response to Increased Strandings and Human Interaction Cases | $74,840 |
| NY | Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation | Creating Paid Internships to Increase Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion within the Marine Mammal Field | $47,275 |
| OR | Oregon State University | Supporting and Enhancing the Capabilities of the Oregon Marine Mammal Stranding Network | $99,958 |
| OR | Portland State University | Support for Stranding Response for the Northern Oregon/Southern Washington Marine Mammal Stranding Program | $100,000 |
| SC | Lowcountry Marine Mammal Network | Stranding Response and Outreach for the South Carolina Marine Mammal Stranding Network | $99,770 |
| TX | Texas Marine Mammal Stranding Network | Critical Operational Support for the Texas Marine Mammal Rescue, Response, and Data Collection Program | $99,928 |
| VA | Virginia Aquarium Foundation | Virginia Marine Mammal Stranding Response: Maintaining Expert Stranding Response and Establishing Brucella Biomonitoring Program | $99,977 |
| WA | Cascadia Research Collective | Cascadia Stranding Response for All Marine Mammals in Primary Washington Areas and for Dead or Live Entangled Whales Statewide, Including Enhanced Evaluation of Human Interaction, 2022-2023 | $99,904 |
| WA | SR3 Sealife Response, Rehabilitation & Research | Increasing Resources for Marine Mammal Response and Rehabilitation in the Pacific Northwest | $100,000 |
| WA | Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife | Support for WDFW's Ongoing Marine Mammal Stranding Response and Investigations of Causes of Mortality in Washington State | $100,000 |
| WA | The Whale Museum | Programmatic Support for Ongoing Stranding Response, Disentanglements, Disease Surveillance, and the Development of a Harbor Seal Pupping Index in San Juan County | $99,990 |
| WA | Whatcom Marine Mammal Stranding Network | Tri-organizational Collaboration to Provide Marine Mammal Stranding Response, Post-Mortem Examination, and Research Capacity along Eastern Puget Sound Washington | $83,350 |
| WA | World Vets | Continued Veterinary And Technical Support for the Health Needs of Stranded and Entangled Marine Mammals in Washington State | $99,999 |
The Fishadelphia team. Credit: Dr. Talia Young.
Pair of bottlenose dolphins. Credit: NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center/Lisa Morse.