For fiscal year 2017, 33 competitive Prescott Grants were awarded totaling $2,830,762.
Prescott Grants support a core mission of NOAA Fisheries – the conservation and recovery of protected marine species – by helping to improve our national marine mammal stranding response capabilities.
The tables below, organized by the State where the recipient is located, list the applicant name, project title, and funding amount awarded.
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| Applicant | Project Title | Federal Funding |
|---|---|---|
| Seward Association for the Advancement of Marine Science |
Forging Public Connections with Marine Mammals through the Alaska SeaLife Center (NA17NMF4390094) |
$29,365 |
| University of Alaska Anchorage | Continued Strengthening of Alaska's Marine Mammal Stranding Program through Collaborative Level B And C Reporting; Diagnostic Support and Continuing Education For Stranding Network Members (NA17NMF4390097) | $100,000 |
| University of Alaska Fairbanks | Marine Mammal Stranding Response and Reporting in Western Alaska (NA17NMF4390099) | $67,149 |
| Applicant | Project Title | Federal Funding |
|---|---|---|
| California Academy of Sciences | Improving Marine Mammal Stranding Response throughout the West Coast Region: A Collaborative Approach to Strandings on Beaches with Endangered Nesting Birds (NA17NMF4390083) | $90,772 |
| California Academy of Sciences | Stable Isotope Signatures in Sea Lion Vibrissae: Searching for Clues to Explain the Recent California Sea Lion Mortality Event (NA17NMF4390095) | $22,006 |
| Channel Islands Marine and Wildlife Institute | Facility Enhancements and Operational Support for Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties (NA17NMF4390090) | $62,400 |
| Northcoast Marine Mammal Center | Going the Distance: Advancing Marine Mammal Response, Data Collection, and Education on the Lost Coast (Humboldt and Del Norte Counties of California) (NA17NMF4390079) | $74,881 |
| San Jose State University Research Foundation | Large Whale Readiness and Response in Central and Northern California (NA17NMF4390111) | $91,458 |
| The Marine Mammal Center | Investigation and Treatment of Respiratory Disease in California Sea Lions under Rehabilitation (NA17NMF4390107) | $96,270 |
| The Regents of the University of California, Davis Campus | Diagnostic Testing Support for the Marine Mammal Health and Stranding Network and Unusual Mortality Events (NA17NMF4390098) | $99,903 |
| The Regents of the University of California, Davis Campus | Improving National Capacity for Response to Oiled Marine Mammals Through Training (NA17NMF4390100) | $85,482 |
| The Regents of the University of California, Santa Cruz | Enhanced Stranding Response on the Central California Coast (NA17NMF4390093) | $99,998 |
| Applicant | Project Title | Federal Funding |
|---|---|---|
| Sea Research Foundation, Inc. | Support and Enhancement for the Marine Mammal Stranding Program at Sea Research Foundation's Mystic Aquarium (NA17NMF4390084) | $100,000 |
| Applicant | Project Title | Federal Funding |
|---|---|---|
| Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission | Florida Marine Mammal Stranding Network Coordination, Response, and Sample Analyses in Southwest Florida (NA17NMF4390088) | $95,275 |
| Hubbs-SeaWorld Research Institute | Critical Support for Marine Mammal Stranding Response along the East Coast of Central Florida: A Region of Repeated Unusual Mortality Events and Increased Dolphin Entanglements (NA17NMF4390105) | $99,976 |
| Mote Marine Laboratory | Enhanced Capacity for Ultrasound Imaging and Continued High-Level Response, Recovery, and Analyses of Stranded Cetaceans in Southwest Florida (NA17NMF4390089) | $58,476 |
| The Florida Institute of Technology | Multi-Regional HAB Toxin Diagnostics for the Marine Mammal Stranding Network (NA17NMF4390082) | $99,990 |
| Applicant | Project Title | Federal Funding |
|---|---|---|
| Georgia Department of Natural Resources | Maintain the Georgia Marine Mammal Stranding Network (NA17NMF4390082) | $76,380 |
| Applicant | Project Title | Federal Funding |
|---|---|---|
| The Marine Mammal Center | Support for a Hawaiian Monk Seal Rehabilitation Program: An Essential Tool to Species Recovery (NA17NMF4390076) | $98,951 |
| University of Hawaii | Investigating Causes of Mortality in Pacific Island Cetaceans at the University of Hawaii (NA17NMF4390104) | $100,000 |
| Applicant | Project Title | Federal Funding |
|---|---|---|
| International Fund for Animal Welfare | Pharmacological Desensitization of Select Large Whale Entanglement Cases to Improve Disentanglement Efficacy and Safety (NA17NMF4390108) | $98,128 |
| International Fund for Animal Welfare | Enhancing Small Cetacean Field Diagnostics and Treatments (NA17NMF4390101) | $96,890 |
| Applicant | Project Title | Federal Funding |
|---|---|---|
| Maryland Department of Natural Resources | Maintaining and Enhancing the Maryland Department of Natural Resources Stranding Response Program and Identifying New Pathogens Utilizing Viral Metagenomics (NA17NMF4390092) | $78,449 |
| Applicant | Project Title | Federal Funding |
|---|---|---|
| College of the Atlantic | Maintenance and Enhancement of the Marine Mammal Stranding Response Program (MMSRP) for the Mid-coast/Downeast region of Maine, 2017-2018 (NA17NMF4390102) | $99,970 |
| Marine Mammals of Maine | Increasing Capacity to Understand Marine Mammal Health through Stranding Response, Triage, and Necropsy in Mid-coast and Southern Maine (NA17NMF4390106) | $99,784 |
| Applicant | Project Title | Federal Funding |
|---|---|---|
| Department of Environmental Quality | Marine Mammal Stranding Response in Central Coastal and Northern Inland North Carolina and Continued Bottlenose Dolphin Post-UME Surveillance (NA17NMF4390103) | $99,950 |
| University of North Carolina Wilmington | Response to and Coordination of Marine Mammal Strandings in North Carolina with Special Emphasis on Bottlenose Dolphin Post-UME and Enhanced Diagnostic Monitoring (NA17NMF4390085) | $99,388 |
| Applicant | Project Title | Federal Funding |
|---|---|---|
| Oregon State University | Supporting and Enhancing the Capabilities of the Oregon Marine Mammal Stranding Network (NA17NMF4390077) | $99,950 |
| Portland State University | Documenting Stranding Changes and Issues for the Northern Oregon/Southern Washington Marine Mammal Stranding Program (NOSWSP) (NA17NMF4390080) | $100,000 |
| Applicant | Project Title | Federal Funding |
|---|---|---|
| Texas Marine Mammal Stranding Network | Support for Live and Dead Marine Mammal Response, Rehabilitation and Data Collection along the Texas Coast (NA17NMF4390096) | $94,391 |
| Applicant | Project Title | Federal Funding |
|---|---|---|
| Sno-King County Marine Mammal Response | Support and Enhance the Basic Needs of the Sno-King Marine Mammal Response Program in Western Washington (NA17NMF4390091) | $26,656 |
| The Whale Museum | Continued Stranding Response and Disease Surveillance in San Juan County, WA, and Improved Disentanglement Capabilities for the West Coast Region (NA17NMF4390078) | $90,988 |
| Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife | Ongoing Response and Investigating Causes of Mortality in Washington Marine Mammals (NA17NMF4390078) | $97,486 |
A stranding responder measures a stranded loggerhead sea turtle on a Florida beach. Photo credit: Florida Sea Turtle Stranding and Salvage Network
Pair of bottlenose dolphins. Credit: NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center/Lisa Morse.
