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.

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 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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