September 18, 2012 — Today, NOAA Fisheries announced that it has awarded $10,000 to the Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation in Riverhead, New York. With this funding, the Riverhead Foundation will be able to help NOAA increase the number of trained personnel to more effectively respond to unexplained marine mammal stranding events that involve the die off of a large number of marine mammals, known as Usual Mortality Events, and establish a regional archive for biological samples collected from stranded marine mammals to aid in the study of marine mammal health and infectious disease.
View the full announcement on the NOAA website