Deadline: 12-Apr-23
The Marine Mammal Commission is accepting proposals for projects focused on understanding marine mammal population health in a changing climate.
The Marine Mammal Commission’s mission, as defined by the U.S. Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA), is to ensure that marine mammal populations are restored and maintained as significant functioning elements of healthy marine ecosystems.
Further their understanding of how environmental factors affect marine mammal population health.
In this context, they define “population health” as the distribution of health indicators or outcomes in a population or subset of a population. Health indicators could include a single measure or aggregate measure of body condition or energy stores, organ status, immune status, sublethal injury from trauma or human interaction, or infectious disease.
Projects that use long-term data or archived time-series samples are welcome, as are prospective studies, or projects that provide innovative tools for assessing health indicators to support long-term surveillance into the future.
They are particularly interested in learning about changes in population health driven by climate change, and encourage proposals that investigate how environmental factors that will be affected by a changing climate, such as prey availability or nutritional quality, HAB toxins, pathogens, temperature, or salinity, influence health of marine mammals. Proposals that increase the inclusion or representation of people from underserved groups in marine mammal research, management, or conservation are strongly encouraged.
Strategic Goal: Improve Population Assessment and Health Surveillance. Their goal is to improve the availability and quality of data, scientific assessments, and information necessary for marine mammal conservation and management programs, especially in the face of climate change.
Funding Information
- Funding requests are limited to $60,000 USD.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants from both within the U.S. as well as outside the U.S. are eligible to apply (including both non-U.S. citizens and those affiliated with non-U.S. institutions).
- At the time of posting, the federal government is working under a continuing resolution. Availability of funds to support research is dependent on passage of a final budget for the Commission.
Requirements
- Proposed projects must fit within their current funding opportunity and adhere to all proposal requirements. The body of the proposal must not exceed five pages using 12-point font, exclusive of cover page, references, budget, curricula vitae, and supporting materials.
- Cover Page (limit 1 page)
- Title: The full title of the proposal. A shorter running title is optional.
- Principal Investigator (PI): Please list only one (corresponding) principal investigator even if your proposal team consists of two or more co-equal investigators and institutions (also see instructions for Curricula Vitae).
- PI Contact Information: Address, phone, website, and e-mail for the principal investigator.
- Financial Point of Contact (POC): An individual (with or without institutional affiliation, as appropriate) who will be responsible for contractual and fiscal matters. This may or may not be the same individual and institution listed as principal investigator.
- Financial POC Information: Address, phone, and e-mail.
For more information, visit MMPA.