Statements of Work

Full statements of work are listed below by focal area.
The documents include:

• PIs, co-PIs and collaborators
• summary, hypothesis and goal(s)
• species of interest
• geographic scope
• detailed project description and methods

Note: BEST statements of work are being posted as they become available. In the meantime, abstracts have been posted, to be replaced by full statements of work.

FOCAL AREA: LTK-Community Involvement-Humans   Go!

• BSIERP Project: Subsistence harvest, users and LTK ecosystem perspective
  Lead: Henry Huntington
  Co-PIs: Elizabeth Andrews, Jim Fall, Eugene Hunn, George Noongwook, Astrid Scholz, Jennifer Sepez, Phil Zavadil
  Regional Advisory Board Members: Josh Wisniewski
• BEST Project: Nelson Island Natural and Cultural Heritage Project
  Lead: Mark John
  Co-PI: Ann Fienup-Riordan

FOCAL AREA: Predator-Prey Dynamics   Go!

• BSIERP Project: Patch Dynamics
  Lead: Andrew Trites
  Co-PIs: Kelly Benoit-Bird, Jackie Grebmeier, Scott Heppell, Chad Jay, Sasha Kitaysky, Kathy Kuletz, Dan Roby, David Sampson

FOCAL AREA: Marine Mammals    Go!

• BSIERP Project: Whale Broad-Scale Distribution
  Lead: Nancy Friday
  Co-PIs: Phil Clapham, Sue Moore, Alex Zerbini

FOCAL AREA: Seabirds    Go!

• BSIERP Project: Seabird Telemetry
  Leads: David Irons, Daniel Roby
• BSIERP Project: Seabird Broad-Scale Distribution
  Lead: Kathy Kuletz
  
• BSIERP Project: Seabirds (colony-based)
  Lead: Vernon Byrd

FOCAL AREA: Fishes    Go!

• BSIERP Project: Acoustic Survey
  Lead: Chris Wilson
• BSIERP Project: Surface Trawl Survey Acoustics
  Lead: John K. Horne
  Co-PIs: Ed Farley, Sandra Parker-Stetter
• BSIERP Project: Pollock and Cod Distribution
  Lead: Lorenzo Ciannelli
  Co-PIs: Kevin Bailey, Steve Barbeaux, Ann Hollowed
• BSIERP Project: Functional Foraging Response
  Leads: Kerin Aydin and Ed Farley
• BSIERP Project: Forage Distribution and Ocean Conditions
  Lead: Anne Hollowed
  Co-PIs: Kerim Aydin, Steve Barbeaux, Ned Cokelet, Alex DeRobertis, Stan Kotwicki, Patrick Ressler, Phyllis Stabeno, Chris Wilson
• BSIERP Project: Surface Trawl Survey
  Lead: Ed Farley
• BSIERP Project: Bottom Trawl Survey
  Lead: Robert Lauth

FOCAL AREA: Trophic Interactions    Go!

• BSIERP Project: Fish, Seabirds, and Mammals
  Lead: Franz Mueter
  Co-PI: Gordon Kruse
• BSIERP Project: Top Predator Hotspot Persistence
  Lead: Mike Sigler
  Co-PIs: Nancy Friday, Kathy Kuletz, Chris Wilson

FOCAL AREA: Benthos   Go!

• BSIERP Project: Carbon Export in the Eastern Bering Sea Water Column
  Lead: S. Bradley Moran
• BSIERP Project: Epi-benthic Video Survey
  Lead: Jacqueline Grebmeier
  Co-PI: Lee Cooper
• BEST Project: Benthic Ecosystem Response to Changing Ice Cover in the Bering Sea
  Lead: Jacqueline Grebmeier
  Co-PI: Lee Cooper
• BEST Project: The Impact of Changes in Sea Ice Extent on Primary Production, Phytoplankton Community Structure, and Export
  Lead: S. Bradley Moran
  Co-PI: Michael Lomas
• BEST Project: Nitrogen supply for New Production and its Relation to Climatic Conditions
  Leads: Ray Sambrotto, Dan Sigman
• BEST Project: Denitrification and Global Change in Bering Sea Shelf Sediments
  Leads: Allan Devol, David Shull
• BEST Project: Sea Ice Algae, a Major Food Source for Herbivorous Plankton and Benthos
  Lead: Rolf Gradinger
  Co-PIs: Bodil Bluhm, Katrin Iken

FOCAL AREA: Zooplankton and Lower Trophic Levels   Go!

• BSIERP Project: Ichthyoplankton Surveys
  Lead: Nicola Hillgruber
  Co-PIs: Janet Duffy-Anderson, Lisa Eisner, Ann Matarese, Jeff Napp
• BSIERP Project: Seasonal Bioenergetics
  Lead: Ron Heintz
  Co-PIs: Tom Hurst, Ben Laurel
• BSIERP Project: Summer Microzooplankton in the Bering Sea
  Lead: Diane Stoecker
• BEST Project: Trophic Role of Euphausiids in the Eastern Bering Sea
  Leads: H. Rodger Harvey, Evelyn Lessard
• BEST Project: Mesozooplankton-Microbial Food Web Interactions and Sea Ice
  Leads: Evelyn Sherr, Carin Ashjian, Robert Campbell
  Co-PI: Barry Sherr
• BEST Project: Assessment of Mesozooplankton Population and Biomass in the Eastern Bering Sea
  Lead: Ken Coyle
  Co-PI: Alexei Pinchuk
• BEST Project: A Service Proposal to Examine Impacts of Sea Ice on the Distribution of Chlorophyll-a Over the Eastern Bering Sea shelf
  Lead: Rolf Sonnerup
  Co-PIs: Dean Stockwell, Terry Whitledge

FOCAL AREA: Moorings   Go!

• BSIERP Project: Biophysical Moorings
  Lead: Phyllis Stabeno
  Co-PIs: Jeff Napp, Terry Whitledge

FOCAL AREA: Atmosphere and Ocean   Go!

• BEST Project: Downscaling Global Climate Projections with Nested Biophysical Models
  Leads: Nicholas Bond, Enrique Curchitser, Katherine Hedstrom
  Co-PIs: Georgina Gibson, Albert Herrmann, Jim Overland
• BEST Project: Role of Ice Melting in Providing Available Iron to the Surface Water of the Eastern Bering Sea Shelf
  Lead: Jingfeng Wu
• BEST Project: Impact of Changes in Sea Ice on the Physical Forcings of the Eastern Bering Ecosystem
  Lead: Jinlun Zhang
  Co-PI: Rebecca Woodgate
• BEST Project: Stratification on the Bering Shelf and its Consequences for Nutrients and the Ecosystem
  Leads: Tom Weingartner, Knut Aagaard
• BEST Project: Examining Summer Hydrographic Structure and Nutrients
  Leads: Rolf Sonnerup, Terry Whitledge
  Co-PI: Calvin Mordy

FOCAL AREA: Ecosystem Modeling    Go!

• BSIERP Project: Linked Modeling (overall proposal)
  Forage euphausiid abundance in space in time | Lead: Kerim Aydin
  Integrate economic-ecological models of pollock and cod | Lead: Michael Dalton; co-PI: Kerim Aydin
  Spatially explicit integrated model of pollock and cod | Lead: Alan Haynie
  Management strategy evaluation | Lead: Andre Punt; co-PI: Jim Ianelli
  Competing fur seal-seabird-pollock model | Lead: Marc Mangel
  Correlative biomass dynamics model| Lead: Franz Mueter; co-PI: Gordon Kruse

Other Components

• Program Management | Lead: NPRB
• Data Management (BSIERP) | Lead: Ken Coyle
• Data Management (BEST) | Lead: James Moore; Co-PIs: Gregory Stossmeister and Steve Williams
• Education + Outreach | Lead: Nora L. Deans

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