Spring 2007

The Whirling Disease Initiative has not been funded to begin new research projects in 2007 or to augment current research grants. Therefore, no Request for Proposals will be conducted in 2007.

2006-2007 Funding Cycle RFP - Complete

Release of RFPP: November 10, 2005
Preproposals due at the Water Center in electronic form: December 23, 2005 (5:00 pm MST)
Preproposal notification and request for full proposals: January 10, 2006
Full proposals due: March 2, 2006 (5:00 pm MST)

2006-2007 Request for Preproposals [75 kb PDF]

The Whirling Disease Initiative exists to counter the effects of the fish parasite Myxobolus cerebralis. The purpose of the Initiative is to provide fishery managers with as complete and effective a set of management tools as possible, to allow them to maintain populations of wild and native salmonids in the presence of the whirling disease parasite. Initiative goals are to prevent introduction and establishment of the disease into streams that are parasite-negative, and in parasite-positive streams, to maintain or re-establish self-sustaining fish populations. For the research cycle beginning in 2006 the Whirling Disease Steering Committee will chose projects that (1) take an epidemiological or ecological research approach focusing on the incidence, severity, spread and effects of whirling disease across populations of wild fish, (2) synthesize information on what is known about whirling disease, and (3) generate information that will be directly usable in formulating fishery management tools.

Research preproposals are sought under the following three categories:
Category 1. Broad-scale, synthetic research projects
Category 2. Topical, management-oriented research projects
Category 3. Comparative analysis of whirling disease testing methods.

2006-2007 Request for Full Proposals [31 kb PDF]

The Whirling Disease Initiative exists to counter the effects of the fish parasite Myxobolus cerebralis. The purpose of the Initiative is to provide fishery managers with as complete and effective a set of management tools as possible, to allow them to maintain populations of wild and native salmonids in the presence of the whirling disease parasite. Initiative goals are: to prevent introduction and establishment of the disease into streams that are parasite negative; and in parasite positive streams, to maintain or
re-establish self-sustaining fish populations. The specific research priorities for 2006- 2007 are laid out in the Five-Year Plan and the Request for Preproposals, which can be viewed at the URL cited above.

This represents the tenth Request for Proposals (RFP). Grants will be awarded based on scientific merit and response to Initiative priorities. The Whirling Disease Steering Committee encourages proposals that leverage funds through integrated research efforts. Partnerships between university researchers and agency field biologists to conduct field testing are very strongly encouraged.