North Pacific Research Board

 

Graduate Student
Research Awards

These awards are given to encourage students to pursue scientific and scholarly research that addresses management issues in northern seas.

Online Application system for the 2012 Graduate Student Research Awards now open!

NPRB is pleased to announce that applications for the 2012 GSRA program are now being accepted using our online submission system. This year NPRB will award up to six awards of $25,000 each to qualified MS and PhD students. Please consult the 2012 GSRA guidelines.

Application deadline is 4 p.m., Friday, February 10, 2012.

To use the application submission system you must download the gsra2012 Java application to your computer. Click on the installer link in the table below that corresponds to your operating system. If you do not already have JAVA on your computer, download an installer that includes JRE (Java Runtime Evironment). You also could install Java using the link: http://www.java.com/en/download/index.jsp

The installer will create an icon on your desktop called "NPRB GSRA2012". Click on this icon to open the submission system. For technical assistance with the submission system installer or application, please contact Igor Katrayev at igor.katrayev@nprb.org or at 907-644-6711.

 

Installer Requirements File size
Windows x32 (includes JRE) None 46,634,623
Windows x64 (includes JRE) None 46,927,241
Windows x32 JRE (32 bit) 1.6.0 or later 14,966,030
Windows x64 JRE (64 bit) 1.6.0 or later 15,258,698
Mac OS X JRE 1.5 or later 14,583,276
Linux x32 JRE (32 bit) 1.5 or later 15,062,157
Linux x64 JRE (64 bit) 1.5 or later 15,095,373
Cross platform (double clickable jar) JRE 1.6.0 or later 14,677,778

Past Award winners

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Year Name Degree University Topic Title
2011* Joseph Bizzarro PhD Univ of Washington fish & invertes Resource utilization of the Gulf of Alaska skate assemblage with applications for ecosystem-based management
2011* Delphine Mathias PhD Univ California, San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography marine mammals Quantifying sperm whale depredation rates using passive acoustic detection and tracking
2011* Julie Nielsen PhD Univ Alaska Fairbanks fish & invertes

Multi-scale movement of demersal fishes in Alaska

2011* Shiway Wang PhD Univ Alaska Fairbank marine mammals Tracking the contribution of ice algal fatty acids to ice seals in the Bering Sea from 2003 – 2010
2011* Raphaelle Descoteaux MSc Univ Alaska Fairbanks fish & invertes Effects of ocean acidification on development of larval Tanner crabs in Alaska
2011* Matthew Lawonn MSc Oregon State University seabirds Breeding Ecology of Kittlitz's Murrelet on Kodiak Island, Alaska: Limiting Factors for a Declining Seabird Species of Conservation Concern
2010* Hannah Voorhees PhD Univ Pennsylvania humans Cultural and social impacts of environmental co-management in Northwest Alaska: an anthropological study of Inupiaq participation in scientific monitoring of “at risk” subsistence marine mammals
2010* Julie Raymond-Yakoubian PhD Univ Alaska Fairbanks humans Salmon and identity in Alaska's Bering Strait region
2010* Matthew Sexson PhD Univ Alaska Fairbanks seabirds Spatiotemporal variation in the non-breeding habitat use of spectacled eiders
2010* Janelle Mueller MS Univ Alaska Fairbanks fishes and invertebrates Effects of the age-composition of spawning sockeye salmon on future returns of sockeye salmon to Bristol Bay, Alaska
2010* Jory Stariwat MS Univ British Columbia humans Lewis Point, a seasonal subsistence fish camp in transition: Negotiations in a mixed cash/subsistence economy 1980-2011
2010* Jonathan Richar MS Univ Alaska Fairbanks fishes and invertebrates Recruitment mechanisms of the Tanner crab in the eastern Bering Sea
2009* Nathan Jones MS San Jose State Univ / Moss Landing Marine Labs, CA seabirds Foraging dynamics of thick-billed murres in the Bering Sea
2009* Megan Winton MS San Jose State Univ / Moss Landing Marine Labs, CA fishes and invertebrates Age, growth, and demography of the roughtail skate from the eastern Bering Sea, with a revised model from the west coast of the United States using histology
2009* Jill-Marie Seymour MS Univ Alaska Fairbanks marine mammals Pacific walrus feeding ecology and possible links to trichinellosis
2009* Rachael Orben MS Univ California Santa Cruz seabirds Winter distribution and ecology of black-legged kittiwakes and thick-billed murres breeding at three Bering Sea colonies with differing population trends
2009* Helen Esch PhD MA Inst Technology / Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst marine mammals Monitoring marine mammal occurrence in the Bering Sea using passive acoustics
2009* Jodie Pirtle PhD Univ Alaska Fairbanks fishes and invertebrates Nursery habitat, predation, and survival of early benthic phase red king crab
2008 Liz Atwood MS Univ Washington lower trophic levels Influence of coastal-origin mesoscale eddies on ichthyoplankton assemblages in the Gulf of Alaska
2008 Shannon O'Brien MS Univ Washington fishes and invertebrates Impacts of climate change on pacific sleeper sharks and co-occuring benthic shark species, spiny dogfish and bluetnose sixgill sharks, as revealed by DNA sequences
2008 Mary Hunsicker PhD Univ Washington fishes and invertebrates Evaluating the trophic role of the commander squid, Berryteuthis magister, and the factors regulating squid abundance in the eastern Bering Sea continental slope ecosystem
2008 Markus Janout PhD Univ Alaska Fairbanks atmosphere and ocean Atmospheric and oceanic contribution on ocean temperatures in the northern Gulf of Alaska
2008 Rebecca Young PhD Univ Alaska Fairbanks seabirds Development of molecular techniques for monitoring demographic structure of Bering Sea seabird populations

 

*Due to special circumstances, a sixth award was funded in 2009, 2010 and 2011.