Research Summaries

NPRB has developed a comprehensive program of marine research organized by major research themes.

For each theme, separate projects from 2002-2008 been woven into a comprehensive whole and published as separate Research Summaries, listed below:

• Oceanography and Productivity   Learn more about research related to the tiny organisms drifting and swimming with the currents that fuel all life in the sea.
• Fish Habitat   Learn more about research related to how maintaining healthy habitats is essential to ecosystem-based management.
• Fishes and Invertebrates   Learn more about how research related to how NPRB is helping to improve our ability to manage and protect the healthy, sustainable fish and wildlife populations that comprise the ecologically diverse marine ecosystems of the North Pacific.
• Marine Mammals    Learn more about research related to these highly visible and engaging components of the marine ecosystem.
• Seabirds   Learn more about research related to the 100 million individuals of 75 species that call Alaska home throughout the year.
• Humans    Learn more about research related to the effects that marine ecosystems have on human societies.
• Other Prominent Issues    Learn more about research related to issues such as contaminants, harmful algal blooms, invasive species, aquaculture, climate change, and an ice-free Arctic.
• Communication, Education and Outreach   NPRB funding mandates that each funded project contain a substantial communication, education and outreach component. Learn more about NPRB's science communication efforts.
  
  Additionally, NPRB devotes significant resources to explaining ocean science to a variety of audiences, using tools such as Research Summaries and Project Synopses, which convey the substance and relevance of each completed project in just two pages. These brief publications are appropriate as a “shoreline” of research for a variety of audiences.