The Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium is pleased to announce a request for pre-proposals related to dolphin conservation. Note that this announcement covers two funding areas: 1. Research on Human-Dolphin Interactions; and 2. Development of two smartphone apps: * Marine mammal stranding; and * Marine mammal identification and viewing Proposals are welcome from institutions of higher education, nonprofit organizations, commercial organizations, and tribal, state, and local governments from South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Please forward to all eligible parties including academic departments related to psychology, technology development and/or marine sciences and to businesses and non-profits that work in either technology development or dolphin conservation. The full RFP is attached. Preproposals are due December 1, 2011. Instructions and forms for pre-proposal submission can be found at: masgc.org/dolphinrfp2011 <http://www.masgc.org/dolphinrfp2011> . Pamela Plotkin, Ph.D. Director, Texas Sea Grant College Program Texas A&M University 2700 Earl Rudder Freeway South, Suite 1800 College Station, TX 77845 Phone: 979-845-3854 Fax: 979-845-7525 http://texas-sea-grant.tamu.edu <http://texas-sea-grant.tamu.edu/> Description: Description: header Pamela Plotkin, Ph.D. Director, Texas Sea Grant College Program Texas A&M University 2700 Earl Rudder Freeway South, Suite 1800 College Station, TX 77845 Phone: 979-845-3854 Fax: 979-845-7525 http://texas-sea-grant.tamu.edu <http://texas-sea-grant.tamu.edu/> Description: header