Field Response & Rehabilitation Proposals
Alaska ($318,156 requested)
| State | Applicant | Project Title |
| AK | Aleut Community of St. Paul Island | Building capacity of a successful remote marine mammal health and stranding response program |
| AK | University of Alaska Anchorage | 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 |
Greater Atlantic ($1,543,197 requested)
| State | Applicant | Project Title |
| CT | 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 |
| DE | Marine Education, Research & Rehabilitation Institute, Inc. | Maintain and Build Capacity to Achieve Comprehensive Response and Data Collection for Marine Mammal Strandings in Delaware |
| MA | Marine Mammal Alliance Nantucket | Enhancement and Sustenance: Marine Mammal Rescue Operations on Nantucket |
| MA | National Marine Life Center | Vital Programmatic Assistance for Pinniped Rehabilitation in New England |
| MA | Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) | Marine Mammal Stranding and Entanglement Program Support for the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) |
| MA | Whale & Dolphin Conservation | Operational Support for Marine Animal Rescue and Response (MARR) Program in Massachusetts |
| MD | Maryland Department of Natural Resources | The Maryland Department of Natural Resources Stranding Response Program: Operational Support to Enhance Stranding Response Capabilities and Promote a Sustainable Future through Data Collection |
| MD | National Aquarium | Assessment of Pinniped Triage Ops & Enhancement of Large Whale Entanglement Response in the Mid-Atlantic |
| ME | 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 |
| ME | Marine Mammals of Maine | Supporting Marine Mammal Health Through Response and Rehabilitation, Disease Surveillance and Expanded Public Outreach |
| NH | Seacoast Science Center | Critical Support to Build Capacity, Strengthen Response, and Expand Reach, Inclusion and Awareness in New Hampshire and Northeastern Massachusetts During a Period of Significant Growth and Transition |
| NJ | Marine Mammal Stranding Center | Operational Support for Marine Mammal Stranding Response and Outreach in New Jersey |
| NY | Atlantic Marine Conservation Society | Support for Expert Large Whale, Small Cetacean and Pinniped Responders in the NY/NJ Bight |
| NY | Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation | Reducing Human Interaction Cases: Strengthening New York's Marine Mammal Stranding Program through Enhanced Response, Rehabilitation and Outreach |
Pacific Islands ($250,000 requested)
| State | Applicant | Project Title |
| HI | The Marine Mammal Center | Continuing Support for Endangered Hawaiian Monk Seal Recovery through Rehabilitation and Enhanced Emergency Preparedness |
| HI | University of Hawai'i at Mānoa | Ensuring capacity for cetacean cause of death investigations in Hawaii and in the Pacific Island territories |
Southeast ($1,067,235 requested)
| State | Applicant | Project Title |
| FL | Clearwater Marine Aquarium | Clearwater Marine Aquarium Cetacean Rehabilitation Pool Maintenance |
| FL | Clearwater Marine Aquarium | Clearwater Marine Aquarium Vessel and Trailer Upgrades to Support Stranding Response and Intervention |
| FL | Florida Fish & 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 |
| FL | Gulf World Marine Institute | Enhancement of Cetacean Stranding Response and Necropsy Capabilities in Expanded Coverage Area of Northwest Florida |
| FL | Hubbs-SeaWorld Research Institute | Strengthening marine mammal stranding response and fostering community engagement to improve intervention and recovery efforts along Floridas most active coastline. |
| FL | Mote Marine Laboratory | Sustaining Mote Marine Laboratory's Stranding Investigations Programs high level of response to stranded cetaceans and testing new methods for remote small cetacean disentanglement |
| MS | The Institute for Marine Mammal Studies | Improving DEI with Paid Entry-Level Stranding Response Opportunities in Mississippi and Maintenance of Stranding Response Equipment |
| NC | North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources | Bridging Two Regions Under the NC Aquariums to Create a More Cohesive Stranding Response Network |
| NC | 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 |
| SC | Lowcountry Marine Mammal Network | South Carolina Stranding Network: continued stranding response and outreach |
| TX | Texas Marine Mammal Stranding Network | Enhancing Stranding Response, Rehabilitation, and Data Collection for Marine Mammals on the Texas Coast |
West Coast ($2,115,812 requested)
| State | Applicant | Project Title |
| CA | California Academy of Sciences | Support for the California Academy of Sciences' stranding response and large whale necropsy preparedness |
| CA | Channel Islands Marine and Wildlife Institute | Essential Support to Continue CIMWIs Live and Dead Marine Mammal Response, Disentanglement, and Rehabilitation Activities |
| CA | Friends of Sea Lion | Building Capacity in Southern California for Whale Euthanasia and Necropsy, Whale and Pinniped Entanglement Response, and Public Education |
| CA | Humboldt State University | Essential Baseline Support for Inclusive Dead Marine Mammal Stranding Response at Cal Poly Humboldt - Effort-Based Surveys and Shared Community Stewardship |
| CA | Marine Life Studies | Whale Entanglement Response and Prevention |
| CA | Northcoast Marine Mammal Center | Crucial Support for Continued Marine Mammal Response and Rehabilitation in Northern California |
| CA | Ocean Animal Response and Research Alliance | Support and Enhancement of OARRA's MMMRP in Southern CA, LA County |
| CA | SeaWorld Entertainment | Expanding and Updating Equipment for Animal Response in Southern California |
| CA | The Marine Mammal Center | A Feasibility Study for the Development of a Private Association for National Marine Mammal Stranding Network Members |
| CA | University of California, Santa Cruz | Supporting Stranding Response and Training Future Generations in Wildlife Health |
| OR | Oregon Coast Aquarium | Marine Mammal Stranding Response on the Oregon Coast |
| OR | Oregon State University | Supporting and Enhancing the Capabilities of the Oregon Marine Mammal Stranding Network |
| OR | 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) |
| WA | Cascadia Research Collective | Improving outcomes of large whale entanglement response from Northern California to Washington |
| WA | 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 |
| WA | Soundside Marinelife Rescue Center | Increasing Capacity for Marine Mammal Response, Rehabilitation and Data Collection in the Pacific Northwest |
| WA | The Whale Museum | Basic Support for Entanglement and Stranding Response in San Juan County, Washington |
| WA | Washington State Department of Fish & Wildlife | Support for WDFWs ongoing marine mammal stranding response and investigations of causes of mortality in Washington State |
Research & Diagnostic Proposals ($1,480,867 requested)
| State | Applicant | Project Title |
| AL | Marine Environmental Sciences Consortium | Coastal Connections: Linking Dolphin Health, Zoonotic Pathogens, and Community Engagement in Southern Alabama |
| CA | Scripps Institute of Oceanography | Assessing microplastics in stranded marine mammals using NOAA fisheries samples collection |
| FL | Cedar Key Dolphin Project | Enhanced Capacity to Characterize Respiratory Microbiome of GOM Inshore Bottlenose Dolphins with Southeast Stranding Partners in a Changing Climate & Facilitating Equitable Access in Cetacean Research |
| FL | Florida Institute of Technology | HAB Toxin Diagnostics to support MMHSRP research |
| FL | Florida International University | Understanding the spatiotemporal dynamics and the environmental drivers of cetacean strandings in the southeastern United States |
| MA | International Fund for Animal Welfare | Building Cetacean Response Resiliency and Diagnostics |
| MA | National Marine Life Center | Continuing the Marine Mammal Morphological Parasite Laboratory V |
| MA | New England Aquarium | Development of a Whale Aerial Sampling Platform (WASP) for remote biopsy sampling of marine mammals |
| MA | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution | Toward an Acoustic Alert System for Cetacean Mass Stranding Events |
| MS | Mississippi State University | Enhancing Marine Mammal Stranding Networks with Tools for Parasite Identification |
| NH | University of New Hampshire | Investigative Genomics and Molecular Diagnostics for High Priority Pathogens, Heavy Metal Toxicity, Feeding Behavior, and Antimicrobial Resistance in Marine Mammals from the Northeastern USA |
| NY | Cornell University | Continued Support for Marine Mammal Stranding Diagnostic Capacity and Training Opportunities in the Mid-Atlantic Region |
