RFP Evolution: 2008

Evolution from Past Years

RFP topics have been aligned with NPRB Science Plan Research Themes; project topics summarize original language in each RFP. See Funding History for further detail on each year's RFP.

See how Requests for Proposals have evolved since 2003.

2008 RFP and the Science Plan

Topics for the 2008 RFP have been aligned with the Science Plan. Page numbers refer to the Science Plan.

IERPs

Bering Sea IERP

• Program funded for 2007–2012: BEST/BSIERP partnership, $35M

Gulf of Alaska IERP

• GOA Large Marine Ecosystem implementation and partnerships

Other Research Approaches and Partnerships

Local and Traditional Knowedge (p 144)

• LTK encouraged in text
• LTK related to other priorities
• Also: Community Involvement

Coordination and Partnerships (p 147)

Oil Spill Recovery Institute Partnership

• Socio-economics: modeling community impacts
• Contaminant baseline assessment
• Forage fish and near-shore habitat associations

Cooperative Research with Industry (p 148)

Fishing Industry

• Gear modification
• Fisheries monitoring
• Bycatch reduction
• Ecosystem monitoring and research
• Whale entanglement avoidance and deterrents
• Habitat mapping

Oil and Gas Industry

• Polar Bears
• Marine mammal acoustic studies
• Shoreline change
• Ice Seals
• Salmon distribution
• Influence of oil and gas development on marine bird distribution, migration and habitat use

Education, Outreach and Community Involvement (p 150)

Education and Outreach

• $100,000 (BSIERP)
• Minimum $2,000 per project (non-BSIERP)
• Graduate research awards ($100,000)
• Student awards at Symposium

Community Involvement

• Community-based research

Science Plan Research Themes

Lower Trophic Level Productivity (p 41)

Oceanography & Lower Trophic Level Productivity

• Coupling between shelf, nearshore and inland waters in the Alaska Coastal Current as well as the importance of freshwater runoff
• Population dynamics, distribution and abundance, productivity and trophic roles of appendicularians and pteropods
• Oceanic zooplankton species in shelf food webs: on-shelf transport processes
• Euphausiid biology

Fish Habitat (p 51)

• Habitat mapping in the Northern Bering Sea Research Area

Fish and Invertebrates (p 65)

• Local impacts of fi shing on prey availability for top trophic level consumers
• Stock assessment and life history of sleeper and salmon sharks
• Skate nurseries
• Rockfish
• Efficacy of bycatch mitigation measures
• Processes controlling recruitment dynamics for all crab species
• Over-winter survival of Pacific Salmon species
• Pacific Cod

Marine Mammals (p 83)

• Ice Seals
• Steller Sea Lions
• Pacific Walrus in the Chukchi Sea
• Polar Bears

Seabirds (p 97)

• Seabird-ecosystem relationships
• Indirect and long-term population effect of contaminants
• Spectacled Eiders

Humans (p 113)

• Analyses of current determinants of exvessel, wholesale, international, and retail demands for principal seafood products from the Gulf of Alaska and Bering Sea-Aleutian Islands
• Pre- and post-implementation studies of the benefits and costs associated with changes in management regimes
• Prospective and retrospective analyses of changes in the spatial and temporal distribution of fi shing effort

Other Prominent Issues (p 123)

Contaminants

• Long-term contamination
• Point source contamination

Ecosystem Studies (p 133)

Aleutian Islands

• Nearshore Dynamics of the Aleutian Islands
• Ecosystem impacts of climate and ocean conditions in the Aleutian Islands
• Fishing effect interactions
• Advancing ecosystem approach to fisheries management
• Development of forecasting tools that incorporate ecosystem indicators
• Ecosystem indicators including retrospective studies

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