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2020 Prescott Grant Proposals Funded

For fiscal year 2020, 43 competitive Prescott Grants were awarded totaling $3,709,981 to recipients from 19 states and one tribe, representing marine mammal stranding network partners from every Fisheries Region.

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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 2020.

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Alaska

Applicant Project Title Federal Funding Requested
Alaska SeaLife Center Live Marine Mammal Response for Alaska and Training Additional Responders in Alaska's Remote Areas $99,988
Sun'aq Tribe of Kodiak Transportation Support to Improve Marine Mammal Stranding Response on Kodiak Archipelago $49,996
University of Alaska Anchorage Strengthening Alaska's Marine Mammal Stranding Program through a Statewide Stranding Coordinator for Level A-C Response with Improved Data and Sample Management $74,985
University of Alaska Fairbanks Marine Mammal Stranding Response and Reporting in Western Alaska $60,039

California

Applicant Project Title Federal Funding Requested
California Academy of Sciences Collaboration with an Established Citizen Science Network to Enhance Marine Mammal Stranding Response: Linking iNaturalist to the Stranding Network $96,561
Channel Islands Marine and Wildlife Institute Vital Staff Support for Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties $99,840
National Marine Mammal Foundation, Inc. Combining and Comparing Aging Techniques in Cetaceans $100,000
Northcoast Marine Mammal Center Increase Animal Care Supervision and Improve Diagnostics, Operational Support, and Community Outreach for Pinniped Rehabilitation and Large Whale Disentanglement. $80,000
The Regents of the University of California, Santa Cruz Support for Basic Response to Marine Mammal Strandings in California's Monterey Bay $60,940
The Regents of the University of California, Davis Diagnostic Testing Support for the Marine Mammal Health and Stranding Network and Unusual Mortality Events $99,554

Connecticut 

Applicant Project Title Federal Funding Requested
Mystic Aquarium Operational Support for Mystic Aquariums Animal Rescue Program Including Producing Local Response Gear Caches and Standardized Examination Forms for Volunteer Responders $99,996

Delaware 

Applicant Project Title Federal Funding Requested
Marine Education, Research & Rehabilitation Institute, Inc. Maximize Quality and Scope of Marine Mammal Stranding Response in Delaware by Providing Essential Personnel, Resources, and Access to Gear and Equipment. $54,589

Florida 

Applicant Project Title Federal Funding Requested
Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission Critical Support for High Level Cetacean Stranding Response, Sample Analyses, and Network Coordination for Large Whale and Mass Strandings in Southwest Florida $99,966
Hubbs-Sea World Research Institute Providing support for stranding response on an expanded portion of Florida's east coast: An area of increased human interaction and repeated Unusual Mortality events $99,945
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 $99,572

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 Stranding response, necropsy and cause of death investigations for Pacific Island cetaceans $100,000

Illinois 

Applicant Project Title Federal Funding Requested
Chicago Zoological Society Continuation of a National Service Center for Post-Release Monitoring of Small Cetaceans $99,873

Louisiana 

Applicant Project Title Federal Funding Requested
Audubon Nature Institute Coastal Wildlife Network: Critical Support for Maintaining and Enhancing Louisiana's Marine Mammal Stranding and Rehabilitation Program $99,263

Maine 

Applicant Project Title Federal Funding Requested
College of the Atlantic Operational Support for the Marine Mammal Stranding Response Program (MMSRP) for the Midcoast/Downeast region of Maine, 2020-2021 $99,981
Marine Mammals of Maine Enhancing Coastal Ocean Health and Public Awareness through Marine Mammal Stranding Response, Data Collection and Triage/Rehab Operations in Midcoast and Southern Maine $99,723

Maryland 

Applicant Project Title Federal Funding Requested
Maryland Department of Natural Resources Continued Enhancement of the Maryland Department of Natural Resources Stranding Response
Program through the Addition of Neurotoxin Analysis and Support of Sample-Centric Inventory Software		 $62,239

Massachusetts 

Applicant Project Title Federal Funding Requested
International Fund for Animal Welfare Critical Database Renovation for Stranding Event and North Atlantic Right Whale Mortality Data Curation $98,974
National Marine Life Center, Inc. Programmatic Support for Pinniped Rehabilitation in Northern New England: Updating and Improving
Operational Processes, Data Quality, and Data Usage		 $99,982
National Marine Life Center, Inc. Continuing the Marine Mammal Morphological Parasite Laboratory III $74,874

New Hampshire 

Applicant Project Title Federal Funding Requested
Seacoast Science Center, Inc. Enhancing Expert  Marine Mammal Response, Rescue,Data Collection, and Outreach in New Hampshire
and Northeastern Massachusetts & Assessing Facility Design Needs for Holding, Rehabilitation, and Necropsy		 $44,687

New York 

Applicant Project Title Federal Funding Requested
Atlantic Marine Conservation Society, Ltd. Practice What You Preach: Implementing the Incident Command System during a Critical Response Drill to Prepare for Oil Spills and Major Marine Mammal Stranding Events $65,560
Atlantic Marine Conservation Society, Ltd. Marine Mammal Response in NY: Investigating stranding events in response to a changing environment $100,000
New York Marine Rescue Center Increasing in-field response efforts for Marine Mammals with an emphasis on pinniped entanglement and human interaction cases in New York $45,404

North Carolina 

Applicant Project Title Federal Funding Requested
North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality Marine Mammal Stranding Response in Central Coastal North Carolina and Inland Sounds with Ongoing and Post-Unusual Mortality Event Surveillance
 		 $99,979
University of North Carolina at Wilmington Response to and Coordination of Marine Mammal Strandings in North Carolina with Special Emphasis on Bottlenose Dolphin Post-UME Monitoring and Enhanced Ancillary Analyses $99,374

Oregon 

Applicant Project Title Federal Funding Requested
Oregon State University Supporting and Enhancing the Capabilities of the Oregon Marine Mammal Stranding Network $99,996
Portland State University Investigating Continuing Changes in Marine Mammal Strandings in the Area Covered by the Northern Oregon/Southern Washington Marine Mammal Stranding Program $100,000

South Carolina 

Applicant Project Title Federal Funding Requested
Coastal Carolina University Stranding Response and Diagnostic Testing for the South Carolina Marine Mammal Stranding Network:
Final Transition Year		 $72,967
Lowcountry Marine Mammal Network The South Carolina Marine Mammal Stranding Network: outreach and stranding response $41,836

Texas 

Applicant Project Title Federal Funding Requested
Texas Marine Mammal Stranding Network Support for Operations of the Texas Marine Mammal Stranding Network and Increased Capacity for Response and Diagnostic Monitoring $99,967
Texas Marine Mammal Stranding Network Investigation into the Prevalence of Brucella sp. in Bottlenose Dolphins Stranded along the Texas Coast $33,670

Virginia 

Applicant Project Title Federal Funding Requested
Virginia Aquarium Foundation Virginia Marine Mammal Stranding Network: Coordinating Expert Response, Rehabilitation, and Data Collection and Analysis $98,142

Washington 

Applicant Project Title Federal Funding Requested
Cascadia Research Collective Cascadia Research Response Activities in Washington State: Coverage of Primary Response Areas and Statewide Effort for Enhanced Large Whale Response 2020-2021 $99,891
SR3 Sealife Response, Rehabilitation and Research An integrated approach to expanded large whale entanglement training and response on the US West Coast $97,669
Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife Ongoing marine mammal stranding response and investigation
of causes of mortality in Washington State		 $100,000
The Whale Museum Continued Stranding Response, Disentanglement and Disease Surveillance in San Juan County, WA $99,960
World Vets Strengthening support for the health needs of stranded and entangled marine mammals in Washington State $99,999

 

Last updated by Office of Protected Resources on 04/14/2022

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