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.