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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Georgia Department of Natural Resources |
Enhance the Georgia Marine Mammal Stranding Network |
$93,510 |
Hawaii
Applicant |
Project Title |
Federal Funding Requested |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Atlantic Marine Conservation Society, Ltd. |
Continued Support for Mortality and Entanglement Investigations in New York |
$70,025 |
Oregon
Applicant |
Project Title |
Federal Funding Requested |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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