Researchers will investigate how therapy horses respond to touch by people to improve our awareness of the horse’s experience and inform best practice guidelines for therapy horses.

Researchers will develop new release hatches for crab traps to curb the bycatch drowning of diamondback terrapins in coastal areas where turtle populations overlap with blue crab fisheries.

Researchers will examine the impact of urbanization on North American river otter health across tributaries of the Chesapeake Bay.

Researchers will study how urbanization affects the ecology and health of white ibis and potentially other coastal wetland bird species.

Researchers will develop a modeling tool to better understand disease transmission and forecast future disease outbreaks in Atlantic bottlenose dolphins living in the Chesapeake Bay.

Researchers will assess the impacts of coal ash repositories on freshwater wetlands and health risks to aquatic animals that live there. This is one of our ‘First Award’ grants, designed to help early career researchers establish their own research programs.