2019 Funded Prescott Grant Proposals

For fiscal year 2019, 43 competitive Prescott Grants were awarded totaling $3,580,526 to recipients from 18 states and one tribe, representing marine mammal stranding network partners from every Fisheries Region.

National

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 for the fiscal year 2019.

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Alaska

Applicant	Project Title	Federal Funding Requested
Seward Association for the Advancement of Marine Science	Live Marine Mammal Response for Alaska and Training Additional Responders in Alaska's Remote Areas	$92,763
Sun'aq Tribe of Kodiak	Enhancing Marine Mammal Stranding Response on Kodiak	$47,036
University of Alaska Anchorage	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
University of Alaska Fairbanks	Marine Mammal Stranding Response and Reporting in Alaska	$55,944

California

Applicant	Project Title	Federal Funding Requested
California Academy of Sciences	Enhancing Marine Mammal Stranding Response in the San Francisco Bay Area by Improving Cetacean Reporting through Surveillance and Public Outreach and Education	$95,431
California Academy of Sciences	Evaluating Long Term Trends in Marine Mammal Strandings Using Records from Multiple Data Sources	$22,852
Channel Islands Cetacean Research Unit	Support for CICRU's Response Activities	$87,330
Channel Islands Marine and Wildlife Institute	Post-Mortem Capability Enhancement and Staff Support for Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties	$74,545
The Marine Mammal Center	Mitigating Marine Debris and Fisheries Entanglement Mortality of California Sea Lion	$99,462
Northcoast Marine Mammal Center	Facility Enhancements, Operational Support and Community Outreach for Pinniped Rehabilitation and Large Whale Disentanglement	$95,065
The Regents of the University of California, Davis	Diagnostic Testing Support for the Marine Mammal Health and Stranding Network and Unusual Mortality Events	$99,086
The Regents of the University of California, Los Angeles	Investigating the Role of Northern Elephant Seals (Mirounga angustirostris) in Leptospira Transmission Dynamics in the Marine Ecosystem	$99,875
The Regents of the University of California, Santa Cruz	Enhanced Stranding Response in Central California through Advanced Training and Improved Public Outreach	$95,582

Connecticut

Applicant	Project Title	Federal Funding Requested
Sea Research Foundation, Inc.	Operational Support for Mystic Aquarium's Animal Rescue Program Including Developing an Internal Pinniped Entanglement Response Procedure	$100,000

Delaware

Applicant	Project Title	Federal Funding Requested
Marine Education, Research and Rehabilitation Institute, Inc.	Maintain and Improve Essential Stranding Personnel, Resources and Veterinary Capacity for Marine Mammal Strandings in Delaware	$52,260

Florida

Applicant	Project Title	Federal Funding Requested
Clearwater Marine Aquarium, Inc.	Fred Howard Park Necropsy Field Station-Enhancing Cetacean Necropsy for Florida's Gulf Coast Region	$66,611
Florida Institute of Technology	Biotoxin Diagnostic Capabilities for Marine Mammal Stranding Response	$99,972
Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission	Florida Marine Mammal Stranding Network Coordination, Response and Sample Analyses in Southwest Florida	$46,898
Hubbs-SeaWorld Research Institute	Critical Support for Maintaining High level Response Capacity Along Central Florida's East Coast: A region of repeated Unusual Mortality Events and elevated incidence of human interaction	$99,896
Mote Marine Laboratory	Cetacean Stranding Response, and Intervention Training and Tool Development Along Florida's Central West Coast	$77,680

Georgia

Applicant	Project Title	Federal Funding Requested
Georgia Department of Natural Resources	Enhance the Georgia Marine Mammal Stranding Network	$93,510

Hawaii

Applicant	Project Title	Federal Funding Requested
The Marine Mammal Center	Hawaiian Monk Seal Rehabilitation Program: An Essential Tool for Species Recovery	$100,000
University of Hawaii	Investigating Causes of Mortality and Increasing Stranding Awareness in the Pacific Islands Region	$100,000

Massachusetts

Applicant	Project Title	Federal Funding Requested
International Fund for Animal Welfare	Enhancing Brucella Surveillance and Diagnosis of Brucellosis in Short-beaked Common Dolphins (Delphinus delphis) on Cape Cod, Massachusetts	$95,798
National Marine Life Center, Inc.	Programmatic Support for Pinniped Rehabilitation in Northern New England: Enhancing Data Quality, Analysis and Publication	$99,963

Maryland

Applicant	Project Title	Federal Funding Requested
Maryland Department of Natural Resources	Enhancing the Quality of Level A, B, and C Data Collected by the MD DNR Stranding Response Program, through the Addition of Disease Diagnostics and Enhanced Training Enforcement Agents	$74,278
National Aquarium, Inc.	Evaluating the Behavioral Effects of Public Viewing on Seals Undergoing Rehabilitation at the National Aquarium	$59,649

Maine

Applicant	Project Title	Federal Funding Requested
Acadia Wildlife Services	A Dedicated Marine Mammal Necropsy Service for the State of Maine	$86,392
College of the Atlantic	Operational Support for the Marine Mammal Stranding Response Program (MMSRP) for the Mid-coast/Downeast Region of Maine, 2019-2020	$99,999
Marine Mammals of Maine	Enhancing Marine Mammal Stranding Response, Data Collection and Triage to Rehab Operations in Mid-coast and Southern Maine, a Region of Ongoing UME Monitoring and Analyses	$99,639

North Carolina

Applicant	Project Title	Federal Funding Requested
North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality	Marine Mammal Stranding Response in Central Coast North Carolina and Palmico Sounds with Ongoing and Post-Unusual Mortality Event Surveillance	$99,979

New Hampshire

Applicant	Project Title	Federal Funding Requested
Seacoast Science Center, Inc.	Support of Critical Operations for Enhanced Marine Mammal Response, Disease Surveillance, Data Collection and Archiving, and Outreach in New Hampshire and Northeastern Massachusetts	$35,617

New York

Applicant	Project Title	Federal Funding Requested
Atlantic Marine Conservation Society, Ltd.	Continued Support for Mortality and Entanglement Investigations in New York	$70,025

Oregon

Applicant	Project Title	Federal Funding Requested
Oregon State University	Supporting and Enhancing the Capabilities of the Oregon Marine Mammal Stranding Network	$99,952
Portland State University	Continuing to Explore Recent Changes in Strandings in the Area Covered by the Northern Oregon/Southern Washington Marine Mammal Stranding Program (NOSWSP)	$100,000

South Carolina

Applicant	Project Title	Federal Funding Requested
Coastal Carolina University	The South Carolina Marine Mammal Stranding Network: Stranding Response and Enhanced Diagnostic Testing	$97,125
Low Country Marine Mammal Network	The South Carolina Marine Mammal Stranding Network: outreach and stranding response	$41,266

Texas

Applicant	Project Title	Federal Funding Requested
Texas Marine Mammal Stranding Network	Critical Support for Response, Treatment and Data Collection from Stranded Marine Mammals along the Texas Coast	$100,000

Virginia

Applicant	Project Title	Federal Funding Request
Virginia Aquarium and Marine Science Center Foundation, Inc.	Coordinating Expert Response, Rehabilitation, and Data Collection for Stranded Marine Mammals in Virginia	$84,159
Virginia Aquarium and Marine Science Center Foundation, Inc.	Effects of Environmental Exposure on Wound Vitality Relative to Postmortem Interval, Salinity, and Decomposition in Bottlenose Dolphins	$37,888

Washington

Applicant	Project Title	Federal Funding Requested
Cascadia Research Collective	Enhanced Large Whale Entanglement and Stranding Response Efforts in the Pacific Northwest	$99,914
State of Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife	Ongoing Response and Investigating Causes of Mortality in Washington Marine Mammals	$100,000
The Whale Museum	Continued Stranding Response, Disease Surveillance, and Entanglement Response in San Juan County, WA	$97,085

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Last updated by Office of Protected Resources on 05/19/2021

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