summary information
BEST Project Summary | BEST projects and funding amounts
BSIERP Overall Study Plan | Overall Lead: Mike Sigler
BSIERP Leads | BSIERP Team Leaders and Presenters, from the September 2007 PI meeting. Individual presentations are available here.
Statements of Work
and Work Plans
Statements of work are listed below by focal area, and include:
- PIs, co-PIs and collaborators
- summary, hypothesis and goal(s)
- species of interest and geographic scope
- detailed project description and methods
Work Plans -- brief schedules of activities for each project -- are also provided for BSIERP projects.
Progress reports for BSIERP projects are due October 1 and April 1 of each year. These reports are available here.
LTK-Community Involvement-Humans
More about this Focal Area and its projects
- 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 - Nelson Island Natural and Cultural Heritage Project, Lead: Mark John; Co-PI: Ann Fienup-Riordan | Statement of Work
Predator-Prey (Patch) Dynamics
Combines focal areas of Marine Mammals, Seabirdfs, Fish, and Forage Species
More about this Focal Area and its projects
- Predator-Prey Dynamics, Pribilof and St. Lawrence Islands
- Predator-Prey Dynamics, Bogoslof Island
Lead: Andrew Trites;
Co-PIs: Kelly Benoit-Bird, Vernon Byrd, Jackie Grebmeier, Scott Heppell, David Irons, Chad Jay, Sasha Kitaysky, Kathy Kuletz, Dan Roby- Statement of Work (Pribilofs and St. Lawrence)
- Statement of Work (Bogoslof)
- Work Plan: forage fish
- Work Plan: fur seals
- Work Plan: seabirds
- Work Plan: walrus
Marine Mammals
More about this Focal Area and its projects
- Whale Broad-Scale Distribution, Lead: Nancy Friday; Co-PIs: Phil Clapham, Sue Moore, Alex Zerbini
Seabirds
More about this Focal Area and its projects
- Seabird Telemetry, Leads: David Irons, Daniel Roby
- Seabird Broad-Scale Distribution, Lead: Kathy Kuletz
- Seabirds (colony-based), Lead: Vernon Byrd
Fishes
More about this Focal Area and its projects
- Acoustic Survey, Lead: Chris Wilson
- Surface Trawl Survey Acoustics, Lead: John K. Horne; Co-PIs: Ed Farley, Sandra Parker-Stetter
- Pollock and Cod Distribution, Lead: Lorenzo Ciannelli; Co-PIs: Kevin Bailey, Steve Barbeaux, Ann Hollowed
- Functional Foraging Response, Leads: Kerin Aydin and Ed Farley
- 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
- Surface Trawl Survey, Lead: Ed Farley
- Bottom Trawl Survey,
Lead: Robert Lauth
- Statement of Work
- Work Plan
Trophic Interactions
More about this Focal Area and its projects
- Fish, Seabirds, and Mammals, Lead: Franz Mueter; Co-PI: Gordon Kruse
- Top Predator Hotspot Persistence, Lead: Mike Sigler; Co-PIs: Nancy Friday, Kathy Kuletz, Chris Wilson
Benthos
More about this Focal Area and its projects
- Carbon Export in the Eastern Bering Sea Water Column,
Lead: S. Bradley Moran
- Statement of Work
- Work Plan
- Epi-benthic Video Survey,
Lead: Jacqueline Grebmeier;
Co-PI: Lee Cooper
- Statement of Work
- Work Plan
- Benthic Ecosystem Response to Changing Ice Cover in the Bering Sea, Lead: Jacqueline Grebmeier; Co-PI: Lee Cooper | Statement of Work
- The Impact of Changes in Sea Ice Extent on Primary Production, Phytoplankton Community Structure, and Export, Lead: S. Bradley Moran; Co-PI: Michael Lomas | Statement of Work
- Nitrogen supply for New Production and its Relation to Climatic Conditions, Leads: Ray Sambrotto, Dan Sigman | Statement of Work
- Denitrification and Global Change in Bering Sea Shelf Sediments, Leads: Allan Devol, David Shull | Statement of Work
- Sea Ice Algae, a Major Food Source for Herbivorous Plankton and Benthos, Lead: Rolf Gradinger; Co-PIs: Bodil Bluhm, Katrin Iken | Statement of Work
Zooplankton and Lower Trophic Levels
More about this Focal Area and its projects
- Ichthyoplankton Surveys, Lead: Nicola Hillgruber; Co-PIs: Janet Duffy-Anderson, Lisa Eisner, Ann Matarese, Jeff Napp
- Seasonal Bioenergetics, Lead: Ron Heintz; Co-PIs: Tom Hurst, Ben Laurel
- Summer Microzooplankton in the Bering Sea, Lead: Diane Stoecker
- Trophic Role of Euphausiids in the Eastern Bering Sea, Leads: H. Rodger Harvey and Evelyn Lessard | Statement of Work
- Mesozooplankton-Microbial Food Web Interactions and Sea Ice, Leads: Evelyn Sherr, Carin Ashjian, Robert Campbell; Co-PI: Barry Sherr | Statement of Work
- Assessment of Mesozooplankton Population and Biomass in the Eastern Bering Sea, Lead: Ken Coyle; Co-PI: Alexei Pinchuk | Statement of Work
- 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 and Terry Whitledge | Statement of Work
Moorings
More about this Focal Area and its projects
- Biophysical Moorings, Lead: Phyllis Stabeno; Co-PIs: Jeff Napp and Terry Whitledge
Atmosphere and Ocean
More about this Focal Area and its projects
- Downscaling Global Climate
Projections with Nested
Biophysical Models
Leads: Nicholas Bond, Enrique Curchitser, Katherine Hedstrom; Co-PIs: Georgina Gibson, Albert Herrmann, Jim Overland - Role of Ice Melting in Providing Available Iron
to the Surface Water of the Eastern Bering Sea Shelf
Lead: Jingfeng Wu - Impact of Changes in Sea Ice on the Physical
Forcings of the Eastern Bering Ecosystem
Lead: Jinlun Zhang; Co-PI: Rebecca Woodgate. Visit the project website for more information. - Stratification on the Bering Shelf
and its Consequences for Nutrients and the Ecosystem
Leads: Tom Weingartner, Knut Aagaard - Examining Summer Hydrographic Structure and Nutrients
Leads: Rolf Sonnerup, Terry Whitledge; Co-PI: Calvin Mordy
Ecosystem Modeling
More about this Focal Area and its projects
- Linked Modeling (overall proposal)
- Forage euphausiid abundance in space and 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
- Statement of Work
- Work Plan: Linked Modeling (overall plan)
- Work Plan: Correlative biomass dynamics model
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
More about Data Management - Education and Outreach, Lead: Nora L. Deans
The BEST-BSIERP Bering Sea Project is a six-year study of the Bering Sea ecosystem,
from the benthos and the atmosphere to human communities, and everything in between.
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