Dear MARMAM community, The U.S. Marine Mammal Commission (Commission) is pleased to announce its Fiscal Year 2025 funding opportunity focused on the “Development of new tools or methods to improve marine mammal stock assessments”. Specifically, the Commission is seeking pre-proposals for projects designed to develop new tools, technologies, or methods to improve marine mammal stock assessments. Proposed projects must focus on the development of novel, low-cost approaches to, 1) estimate abundance of marine mammal stocks (populations or other management units), and/or 2) estimate marine mammal mortality and serious injury, including approaches to estimate unobserved mortality, or assign M/SI to a source. The Commission will be accepting pre-proposals until Monday, October 7th, 2025, 11:59 pm EDT. Applicants intending to apply to this funding opportunity must submit a pre-proposal briefly summarizing their proposed project. Pre-proposals must: * Demonstrate how the proposed work would contribute to science-based management and policy. * Be either applicable to marine mammal stocks that occur in U.S. waters (including transboundary stocks) or focus on marine mammal stocks occurring in areas where they may be subject to by-catch in foreign fisheries that export, or intend to export, seafood to the United States. Full proposals will only be accepted from those applicants invited to submit after the pre-proposal review. Invitations to submit a full proposal will be sent to applicants via email by Tuesday, November 5th, 2024. Funding requests are limited to $75,000 USD. More details on this funding opportunity, as well as deadlines, (pre-)proposal requirements, eligibility, and submission instructions, can be found on the Commission’s webpages below. Current funding opportunities: https://www.mmc.gov/grants-and-research-survey/current-funding-opportunities... Proposal requirements: https://www.mmc.gov/grants-and-research-survey/current-funding-opportunities... Dee Allen Scientific Program Officer Marine Mammal Commission 4340 East-West Highway, Suite 700 Bethesda, MD 20814-4498 301-504-0087 Follow us on Twitter: @MarineMammalCom Visit us online: www.mmc.gov<http://www.mmc.gov/> The Marine Mammal Commission is an independent agency of the U.S. Government.