FY 2022 Prescott Grant Awards

Marine Environmental Sciences Consortium

Investigating Success of Stranded Marine Mammal Surveillance by the Public, Trained Response Staff, and Unoccupied Aerial Surveys

$32,467

Seward Association for the Advancement of Marine Science

Funding for Wildlife Response Operations and Training Remote Responders in Alaska

$99,974

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

Sun'aq Tribe of Kodiak

Training Stranding Network Members to Live Capture and Disentangle Steller Sea Lions Around the Northern Kodiak Archipelago, Alaska

$54,987

California Academy of Sciences

Increasing Undergraduate Opportunities in Marine Mammal Stranding Response at the California Academy of Sciences.

$26,927

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

$75,000

Channel Islands Cetacean Research Unit

Support for CICRU's Cetacean Response Activities

$49,987

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

The Marine Mammal Center

Establishing Renal Function Parameters and Pathology in California Sea Lions

$100,000

National Marine Mammal Foundation, Inc.

Epigenetic Aging in Pinnipeds; Exploring Northern Elephant Seals as a Model for Endangered Hawaiian Monk Seals.

$50,000

Northcoast Marine Mammal Center

Staffing, Training, and Operational Support for Marine Mammal Stranding Response and Rehabilitation

$97,877

Ocean Animal Response and Research Alliance

Filling the Gap, Support for a Dedicated Marine Mammal Mortality Response Program in Southern California, Los Angeles County.

$85,000

The Regents of the University of California, Santa Cruz

Supporting Marine Mammal Stranding Response on the Central California Coast

$92,696

Mystic Aquarium

Enhance Response and Data Collection in CT, RI, and Fisher's Island, NY and to Increase Network Collaboration and Data Sharing

$92,288

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

Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission

Critical Support for the Southwest Florida Stranding Coordinator and Enhanced Response to Large Whale and Mass Strandings throughout Florida

$48,525

Hubbs-SeaWorld 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

Marine Animal Rescue Society, Inc.

Marine Mammal Field Response & Necropsy Support

$29,479

Mote Marine Laboratory

Rapid Detection and Response to Cetacean Strandings and Small Cetacean Disentanglements in Central Western Florida and Capacity Building for Large Whale Recovery, Necropsy and Disposal for Greater FL

$41,112

University of Florida

A Multidisciplinary Approach to Marine Mammal Death Investigations Using Forensic Science

$91,079

Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources

Ensuring Capacity for the State of Hawai'i and NOAA's Continued Stranding and Entanglement Response Partnership.

$27,912

The Marine Mammal Center

Hawaiian Monk Seal Rehabilitation Program

$97,030

University of Hawaii

Stranding Response, Necropsy and Cause of Death Investigations in Hawaii and the Greater Pacific

$100,000

West Hawaii Aquatic Large Entanglement Response Network, Inc.

West Hawai'i Aquatic Large Entanglement Response Network, 2022

$4,321

University Of Illinois

Centralized Diagnostic Testing and Histopathology Support for the Marine Mammal Health and Stranding Network and Unusual Mortality Events

$86,468

Audubon Nature Institute

Coastal Wildlife Network: Critical Support for Response and Enhancing Louisiana's Marine Mammal Stranding Program

$58,700

College of the Atlantic

Operational Support for the Marine Mammal Stranding Response Program (MMSRP) for the Mid-coast/Downeast region of Maine, 2022-2023

$99,986

Marine Mammals of Maine

Supporting Pinniped and Cetacean Stranding Response and Sustaining Pinniped Triage and Rehabilitation Capacity in the Northeast US

$100,000

University of Maine

Investigating Pinniped Susceptibility to Viral Disease Outbreaks through Diagnostic Analyses and Post- Unusual Mortality Event Monitoring

$99,988

National Aquarium, Inc.

Enhancement of Stranding Response along MD's Atlantic Coast with the Addition of Seal Triage

$54,892

National Marine Life Center, Inc.

Ensuring the Continuation of Seal Rehabilitation in New England

$55,334

Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (North America) Inc.

Operational Support for Marine Mammal Stranding Response Program (MMSRP) in Southeast Massachusetts

$77,407

Seacoast Science Center, Inc.

Improving Effectiveness, Quality, and Community Understanding of Marine Mammal Response and Rescue in New Hampshire and Northeastern Massachusetts

$39,682

Atlantic Marine Conservation Society, Ltd.

Continued Support for Large Whale, Dolphin and Seal Response in the New York Bight

$100,000

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

$44,828

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

The University of North Carolina at Wilmington

Response to Marine Mammal Strandings in Southern North Carolina with Emphasis on Bottlenose Dolphin Post-UME Monitoring, Human Interaction Diagnosis in support of the Bottlenose Dolphin Take Reduction

$99,535

North Carolina Department of Environment 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

Oregon State University

Supporting and Enhancing the Capabilities of the Oregon Marine Mammal Stranding Network

$99,958

Portland State University

Support for Stranding Response for the Northern Oregon/Southern Washington Marine Mammal Stranding Program

$100,000

Lowcountry Marine Mammal Network

Stranding Response and Outreach for the South Carolina Marine Mammal Stranding Network

$99,770

Texas Marine Mammal Stranding Network

Critical Operational Support for the Texas Marine Mammal Rescue, Response, and Data Collection Program

$99,928

Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center Foundation, Inc.

Virginia Marine Mammal Stranding Response: Maintaining Expert Stranding Response and Establishing Brucella Biomonitoring Program

$99,977

SR3, Sealife Response, Rehabilitation & Research

Increasing Resources for Marine Mammal Response And Rehabilitation In The Pacific Northwest

$80,000

Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife

Support for WDFW's Ongoing Marine Mammal Stranding Response and Investigations of Causes of Mortality in Washington State

$100,000

Whatcom Marine Mammal Standing Network

Tri-organizational Collaboration to Provide Marine Mammal Stranding Response, Post-Mortem Examination, and Research Capacity along Eastern Puget Sound Washington

$83,350

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.

$75,000

World Vets

Continuing Veterinary and Technical Support for the Health Needs of Stranded and Entangled Marine Mammals in Washington State

$80,000