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2003-2004 Prescott Grant Proposals

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Federal Register 2003-2004 Notice of Solicitation [pdf] [97 KB]

2003 Prescott Funded Proposals

(Finalized by NOAA's Grants Management Division on February 23, 2004.)

State Applicant Project Title Award Number Federal Funding
AK
University of AK Anchorage "The effects of acute and chronic stress on the Atlantic bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops Truncatus) Adrenal gland." NA03NMF4390465
$74,619
CA
Sea World, San Diego "Enhancement and integration of southern CA stranded marine mammal post-mortem evaluations and materials archives" NA03NMF4390459
$100,000
CA
Regents of the University of California "Cancer in stranded California sea lions: answering questions about the role of contaminants, genetics, and diagnostic of herpes virus infection and early NA03NMF4390454
$100,000
CA
Marine Mammal Care Center - Fort MacArthur "Veterinary Fellowship Program at the Marine Mammal Care Center at Fort MacArthur" NA03NMF4390446
$100,000
CA
Sea World, San Diego "Improving response, care and diagnostics for stranded marine mammal in Southern California" NA03NMF4390456
$100,000
CA
Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History "Enhancement of Facility, Equipment and Supplies to Recover and Archive Dead, Stranded Cetaceans" NA03NMF4390447
$99,989
CA
San Jose State University Foundation "Improving the Response to Marine Mammal Strandings by Moss Landing Marine Laboratories in Central California" NA03NMF4390448
$99,716
CA
Regent of the University of California "Enhancement of Stranding Response at the University of California Santa Cruz Long Marine Lab" NA03NMF4390449
$49,703
CA
Marine Mammal Center "Continuation of a biomonitoring program to detect novel diseases and changes in prevalence of know diseases in pinnipeds stranded along the central California coast" NMF4390450
$100,000
CA
City of Malibu "Consistency and improvement in marine mammal stranding response for the City of Malibu coastline" NA03NMF4390466
$99,790
CA
Natural History Museum "Development of an Improved Protocol for Examining Stranded Cetaceans: Combining Museum-based Science and Veterinary Medicine" NA03NMF4390482
$95,000
CA
Marine Mammal Center "Advancement of clinical care of stranded marine mammals, especially those intoxicated with the algal toxin domoic acid" NA03NMF4390484
$100,000
CA
Friends of the Seal Lion Marine Mammal Center "Pathology enhancement and database development" NA03NMF4390460
$97,975
CT
University of Connecticut "Evaluation of immune functions are potential diagnostic and prognostic tools in stranded marine mammals" NA03NMF4390409
$95,744
CT
Mystic Aquarium "Application and refinement of a prognostic index to evaluate the health, nutritional status, and cause of stranding of stranded harp seals and hooded seals in the Northeastern U.S., with particular emphasis on a disease with epizootic potential" NA03NMF4390408
$99,997
CT
Mystic Aquarium "Support for the Marine Mammal Stranding Program at Mystic Aquarium" NA03NMF4390441
$100,000
DE
Delaware Department of Resources and Environmental Control "Outfitting a necropsy lab to improve acquisition, analysis and storage of levels A, B and C data from stranded marine mammals in coastal Delaware and it's inland waterways" NA03NMF4390481
$91,803
DC
Smithsonian Institution "Enhancement and Maintenance of the Smithsonian Institution's Cetacean Distributional Database and Research Collections (1 Year)" NA03NMF4390404
$97,580
FL
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission "Facilities of Southwest Florida Cetaceans Rescue and Recovery" NA03NMF4390443
$90,800
FL
Mote Marine Lab "Facility expansion for the Dolphin and Whale Hospital" NA03NMF4390457
$100,000
FL
Hubbs-Sea World Research Institute "Enhancing live animal stranding response, necropsy procedures and tissue archiving capabilities along the central and northeast coast of Florida" NA03NMF4390486
$96,826
FL
Gulf World, Inc. "Request for equipment to help facilitate large animals and to make moving of all animals easier, safer and faster and for financial assistance with stranding facility operations" NA03NMF4390455
$45,675
FL
University of Florida "Poxvirus Infections in North American Pinnipeds" NA03NMF4390410
$38,181
FL
Marine Animal Rescue Society (MARS) "Improve MARS' impact on live stranding events in South Florida, while nurturing existing outreach channels with a better presence" A03NMF4390469
$99,952
LA
Audubon Nature Institute, Inc "Enhancement of data collection from stranded marine mammals by Louisiana Marine Mammal Rescue Program" NA03NMF4390458
$74,940
ME
University of Southern Maine "Establishing a national resource of marine mammal cell lines for toxicological, infectious disease, and other biomedical research" NA03NMF4390398
$100,000
ME
College of the Atlantic "A medium-range response vessel to enhance the Marine Mammal Stranding Response Program (MMSRP) for Mid-coast/Downeast Maine" NA03NMF4390407
$80,000
ME
Marine Animal Lifeline "Enhancing and supporting marine mammal rescue response and stabilization procedures" NA03NMF4390399
$99,734
ME
Marine Animal Lifeline "Improved veterinary care and marine mammal rehabilitation program support" NA04NMF4390108
$98,401
MD
Maryland Department of Natural Resources "Improving Response to and Assessment of Dead Stranded Marine Mammals in Maryland" NA03NMF4390461
$99,997
MD
National Aquarium in Baltimore "National Aquarium in Baltimore 2003: Enhanced operations of Marine Animal Stranding Rescue and Rehabilitation through the procurement of medical/rescue equipment and a centralized storage facility." NA03NMF4390403
$99,030
MA
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution "2003 Necropsy Enhancement for Stranded Marine Mammals" NA03NMF4390440
$99,267
MA
Cape Cod Stranding Network, Inc. "Enhanced stranding response and investigation on Cape Cod: assessment, data collection, sampling, and disposal" NA03NMF4390479
$100,000
MA
New England Aquarium Corporation "Improved field diagnostics and post-release monitoring of mass stranded cetaceans" NA03NMF4390401
$99,958
MA
New England Aquarium Corporation "Improving marine mammal stranding response and rehabilitation in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Southern Maine" NA03NMF4390406
$100,000
MS
Institute for Marine Mammal Studies, Inc. "Evaluation of trends and possible causes of marine mammal strandings in the Mississippi sound and adjacent waters" NA03NMF4390444
$100,000
NJ
Marine Mammal Stranding Center (MMSC) "To enhance and support Marine Mammal Stranding Center (MMSC) staffing requirements" NA03NMF4390397
$100,000
NY
Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation "Facility upgrade to enhance access to veterinary care for marine mammals while collecting valuable supplemental data" NA03NMF4390497
$99,711
NY
Mount Sinai School of Medicine "Atlas of mysticete anatomy" NA03NMF4390402
$92,181
NC
University of North Carolina, Wilmington "Enhanced tissue collection and health monitoring of stranded marine mammal's in North Carolina and Virginia" NA03NMF4390411
$94,046
NC
University of North Carolina, Wilmington "Enhancing response to and necropsy of stranded large whales in North Carolina and Virginia" NA03NMF4390445
$93,262
OR
Oregon State University "Enhancing the capabilities of the Oregon marine mammal stranding network" NA03NMF4390451
$99,967
SC
South Carolina Department of Natural Resources "Continuation of South Carolina's Marine Mammal Strandings Network" NA03NMF4390442
$86,690
TX
Texas Marine Mammal Stranding Network "Improved Recovery and Treatment of Live Stranded Animals--Rescue, Rehabilitation and Release" NA03NMF4390468
$99,648
TX
Texas Marine Mammal Stranding Network "Improved data collection from living and dead marine mammal" NA03NMF4390467
$99,319
VA
Virginia Marine Science Museum "Supporting response to dead marine mammal strandings in Virginia" NA03NMF4390483
$100,000
WA
Whale Museum "Stranding response and post-mortem evaluation of stranded marine mammals in San Juan County, Washington" NA03NMF4390480
$95,178
WA
Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife "Investigations of marine mammals health parameters and causes of mortality in marine mammals from Washington waters" NA03NMF4390485
$75,256

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