Living Marine Resources Program solicitation for FY19 pre-proposals

Posted on September 6, 2018

Broad Agency Announcement solicitation N39430-18-S-2086

The U.S. Navy Living Marine Resources (LMR) applied research program is seeking pre-proposals in five topic areas related to underwater sound produced by human activities and its effects on marine life. Topics include: 1) improving duration of medium-term telemetry tag attachment, 2) demonstration and validation of PAM-based density estimation methods using visually verified survey data, 3) investigation of the effects of cue rate and cue stability on PAM-based density estimation methods, 4) demonstration and validation of passive acoustic monitoring sparse arrays to estimate density of low-frequency whales over large spatial areas, 5) identifying monitoring priorities for studying the population consequences of disturbance on marine mammals, and 6) turtle temporary threshold shift feasibility study.

Details regarding these need topics as well as pre-proposal submission guidelines can be viewed at the LMR program website.