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Field Response and Rehabilitation Awards
Alaska
| Subregion | Applicant | Project Title | Federal Funding |
|---|
| Gulf of Alaska | Aleut Community of St. Paul Island | Building capacity of a successful remote marine mammal health and stranding response program | $70,569 |
| Gulf of Alaska | University of Alaska Anchorage | FY25 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 | $99,999 |
California
| Subregion | Applicant | Project Title | Federal Funding |
|---|
| California | Cal Poly Humboldt Sponsored Programs Foundation | Essential Baseline Support for Dead Marine Mammal Stranding Response in Northern CA Through Effort-based Surveys at Cal Poly Humboldt | $99,892 |
| California | California Academy of Sciences | Support for the California Academy of Sciences' stranding response and large whale necropsy preparedness | $99,678 |
| California | Channel Islands Marine and Wildlife Institute | Essential Support to Continue CIMWI’s Live and Dead Marine Mammal Response, Disentanglement, and Rehabilitation Activities | $99,840 |
| California | Ocean Animal Response and Research Alliance | Support and Enhancement of OARRA's MMMRP in S. CA, LA County | $88,057 |
| California | University of California, Santa Cruz | Basic Stranding Response in Central California: Preparing Students for One Health Careers | $98,417 |
Connecticut
| Subregion | Applicant | Project Title | Federal Funding |
|---|
| New England | Sea Research Foundation, Inc. d/b/a Mystic Aquarium | Operational Support for Mystic Aquarium's Animal Rescue Program with Focus on Expanding Collaborations and Trainings to Leverage Resources and Optimize Stranding Response Efforts | $98,063 |
Delaware
| Subregion | Applicant | Project Title | Federal Funding |
|---|
| Mid-Atlantic | Marine Education, Research & Rehabilitation Institute, Inc. | Maintain and Build Capacity to Achieve Comprehensive Response and Data Collection for Marine Mammal Strandings in Delaware | $97,109 |
Florida
| Subregion | Applicant | Project Title | Federal Funding |
|---|
| Atlantic | Hubbs-SeaWorld Research Institute | Strengthening marine mammal stranding response and fostering community engagement to improve intervention and recovery efforts along Florida’s most active coastline | $95,760 |
| GoA and Caribbean | Clearwater Marine Aquarium | Clearwater Marine Aquarium Cetacean Rehabilitation Pool Maintenance | $23,500 |
| GoA and Caribbean | Clearwater Marine Aquarium | Clearwater Marine Aquarium Vessel and Trailer Upgrades to Support Stranding Response and Intervention | $21,449 |
| GoA and Caribbean | Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission | Vital Support for Cetacean Stranding Response, including Endangered Large Whale and Mass Stranding Events, Advanced Diagnostics, and Dissemination of Critical Stranding Data | $86,180 |
| GoA and Caribbean | Mote Marine Laboratory | Sustaining Mote Marine Laboratory's Stranding Investigations Program’s high level of response to stranded cetaceans and testing new methods for remote small cetacean disentanglement | $136,590 |
Hawaii
| Subregion | Applicant | Project Title | Federal Funding |
|---|
| Hawaii | The Marine Mammal Center | A Feasibility Study for the Development of a Private Association for National Marine Mammal Stranding Network Members | $99,763 |
| Hawaii | University of Hawaii | Ensuring capacity for cetacean cause of death investigations in Hawaii and in the Pacific Island territories | $99,076 |
Massachusetts
| Subregion | Applicant | Project Title | Federal Funding |
|---|
| New England | Marine Mammal Alliance Nantucket Inc | Enhancement and Sustenance: Marine Mammal Rescue Operations on Nantucket | $85,000 |
| New England | Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) | Marine Mammal Stranding and Entanglement Program Support for the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) | $40,289 |
| New England | Whale and Dolphin Conservation, Inc. | Operational Support for Marine Animal Rescue and Response (MARR) Program in Massachusetts | $78,600 |
Maryland
| Subregion | Applicant | Project Title | Federal Funding |
|---|
| Mid-Atlantic | National Aquarium, Inc. | Assessment of Pinniped Triage Ops & Enhancement of Large Whale Entanglement Response in the Mid-Atlantic | $50,195 |
Maine
| Subregion | Applicant | Project Title | Federal Funding |
|---|
| New England | College of the Atlantic | Critical Operational Support for the Marine Mammal Stranding Response Program for the Mid-Coast/Down east Region of Maine 2025-2026 | $79,853 |
| New England | Marine Mammals of Maine | Supporting Marine Mammal Health Through Response and Rehabilitation, Disease Surveillance and Expanded Public Outreach | $95,923 |
North Carolina
| Subregion | Applicant | Project Title | Federal Funding |
|---|
| Atlantic | North Carolina Department of Natural & Cultural Resources | Bridging Two Regions Under the NC Aquariums to Create a More Cohesive Stranding Response Network | $98,981 |
| Atlantic | University of North Carolina at Wilmington | Response to and Coordination of Marine Mammal Strandings in Southeastern North Carolina with Special Emphasis on Enhanced Ancillary Analyses and Bottlenose Dolphin Post-UME Monitoring | $86,700 |
New Hampshire
| Subregion | Applicant | Project Title | Federal Funding |
|---|
| New England | Seacoast Science Center, Inc. | Critical Support to Build Capacity, Strengthen Response, and Expand Reach and Awareness in New Hampshire and Northeastern Massachusetts During a Period of Significant Growth and Transition | $94,844 |
New Jersey
| Subregion | Applicant | Project Title | Federal Funding |
|---|
| Mid-Atlantic | Marine Mammal Stranding Center | Operational Support for Marine Mammal Stranding Response and Outreach in New Jersey | $91,533 |
New York
| Subregion | Applicant | Project Title | Federal Funding |
|---|
| Mid-Atlantic | Atlantic Marine Conservation Society, Ltd. | Support for Expert Large Whale, Small Cetacean and Pinniped Responders in the NY/NJ Bight | $94,993 |
| Mid-Atlantic | Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research | Reducing Human Interaction Cases: Strengthening New York's Marine Mammal Stranding Program through Enhanced Response, Rehabilitation and Outreach | $74,080 |
Oregon
| Subregion | Applicant | Project Title | Federal Funding |
|---|
| Pacific Northwest | Oregon State University | Supporting and Enhancing the Capabilities of the Oregon Marine Mammal Stranding Network | $99,897 |
| Pacific Northwest | Portland State University | Stranding Response Support to Document Increased Strandings and High Human Interaction in the Northern Oregon Southern Washington Marine Mammal Stranding Program (NOSWSP) | $99,979 |
South Carolina
| Subregion | Applicant | Project Title | Federal Funding |
|---|
| GoA and Caribbean | Lowcountry Marine Mammal Network | South Carolina Stranding Network: continued stranding response and outreach | $66,540 |
Texas
| Subregion | Applicant | Project Title | Federal Funding |
|---|
| GoA and Caribbean | Texas Marine Mammal Stranding Network | Enhancing Stranding Response, Rehabilitation, and Data Collection for Marine Mammals on the Texas Coast | $98,449 |
Washington
| Subregion | Applicant | Project Title | Federal Funding |
|---|
| Pacific Northwest | Cascadia Research Collective | Improving outcomes of large whale entanglement response from Northern California to Washington | $99,971 |
| Pacific Northwest | Cascadia Research Collective | Marine mammal stranding response and necropsy for primary coverage areas of Washington inland waters and outer coast, and large whales statewide in 2026 | $99,996 |
| Pacific Northwest | The Whale Museum | Basic Support for Entanglement and Stranding Response in San Juan County, Washington | $93,379 |
| Pacific Northwest | Washington State Department of Fish & Wildlife | Support for WDFW’s ongoing marine mammal stranding response and investigations of causes ofmortality in Washington State | $99,999 |
Research and Diagnostic Awards
Alabama
| Subregion | Applicant | Project Title | Federal Funding |
|---|
| Gulf of America and Caribbean | Marine Environmental Sciences Consortium | Coastal Connections: Linking Dolphin Health, Zoonotic Pathogens, and Community Engagement in Southern Alabama | $59,708 |
California
| Subregion | Applicant | Project Title | Federal Funding |
|---|
| California | University of California, San Diego | Assessing microplastics in stranded marine mammals using NOAA fisheries samples collection | $99,999 |
Florida
| Subregion | Applicant | Project Title | Federal Funding |
|---|
| Gulf of America and Caribbean | Florida Institute of Technology, Inc. | HAB Toxin Diagnostics to support MMHSRP research | $72,194 |
Hawaii
| Subregion | Applicant | Project Title | Federal Funding |
|---|
| Hawaii | The Marine Mammal Center | Continuing Support for Endangered Hawaiian Monk Seal Recovery through Rehabilitation and Enhanced Emergency Preparedness | $75,580 |
Massachusetts
| Subregion | Applicant | Project Title | Federal Funding |
|---|
| New England | International Fund for Animal Welfare, Inc. | Building Cetacean Response Resiliency and Diagnostics | $99,886 |
| New England | New England Aquarium Corp. | Development of a Whale Aerial Sampling Platform (WASP) for remote biopsy sampling of marine mammals | $99,977 |
| New England | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution | Toward an Acoustic Alert System for Cetacean Mass Stranding Events | $99,964 |
New York
| Subregion | Applicant | Project Title | Federal Funding |
|---|
| Mid-Atlantic | Cornell University | Continued Support for Marine Mammal Stranding Diagnostic Capacity and Training Opportunities in the Mid-Atlantic Region | $62,230 |