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project types

humans

  • Interview community residents to conceptualize ecosystem in Alaska Native terms
  • Study subsistence surveys + use patterns
  • Go to Humans projects

marine mammals

  • Broad-scale visual surveys
  • PATCH DYNAMICS: Foraging studies of fur seals, walrus, and their prey (Pribilofs and St. Lawrence)
  • Retrospective analyses
  • Go to Marine Mammals projects

seabirds

  • Broad-scale visual surveys
  • PATCH DYNAMICS: Foraging studies of thick-billed murres, black-legged kittiwakes, and their prey (Pribilofs and Bogoslof)
  • Retrospective analyses
  • Go to Seabirds projects

fishes,

forage species,
+ trophic interactions

benthos + NPZ

moorings +
atmosphere + ocean

other activities

What We’re Studying

Bering Sea fisheries account for nearly half of U.S. catches. The BEST-BSIERP Bering Sea Project examines the fish, seabirds, marine mammals, and people sustained by the Bering Sea.

Learn more about the five major hypotheses of the project.

Focal Areas of the Bering Sea Project

vertical integration diagram for bering sea project Go to Data Management Go to Modeling projects Go to Moorings, Atmosphere and Ocean projects Go to Plankton projects Go to Benthos projects Go to Forage Species and Trophic Interactions projects Go to Fishes projects Go to Seabirds projects Go to Marine Mammals projects go to Humans projects education and outreach

Work supported by NSF

  • Climate, oceanography, and lower trophic levels | benthos, primary production near sea ice, nutrients, modeling, micro- and meso-zooplankton, euphausiids, biophysical moorings, and physical oceanography
  • Social science research | relationships between a changing marine environment and Bering Sea communities

See Statements of Work and Work Plans

Work supported by NPRB

  • Climate, oceanography, and lower trophic levels | benthos, micro-zooplankton, biophysical moorings, and physical oceanography
  • Forage species | euphausiids, myctophids and capelin
  • Fish | arrowtooth flounder, Pacific cod, and walleye pollock
  • Marine mammals | fur seals, walrus and broad-scale whale distribution
  • Seabirds | thick-billed murres, black-legged kittiwakes, and broad-scale seabird distribution
  • Local and Traditional Knowledge (LTK) | Subsistence harvest and LTK ecosystem perspectives
  • Education, outreach, and communication

See Statements of Work and Work Plans

Work supported by NSF and NPRB

  • Ecosystem modeling
  • Data management

See Statements of Work and Work Plans