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• Second Gulf of Alaska IERP meeting
• 2010 Photo Contest opens

upcoming meetings

Board

• May 5-6
• September 22-24
• April 28-29, 2011
• September 15-16, 2011

Science Panel

• April 13-15
• August (date TBD)

Advisory Panel

• May 3-4
• September 20-21
• April 26-27, 2011
• September 13-14, 2011

Meetings are held in Anchorage unless otherwise noted. Summaries of past meetings are available here.

Position opening

Chief Scientist, Alaska SeaLife Center, Seward

We seek an individual who can lead studies of the key issues confronting the North Pacific ecosystem such as endangered species recovery, ocean acidification, marine diseases and arctic resource management ...

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Online proposal submission Now available for 2010 Graduate Student Research Awards

Up to five Graduate Student Research Awards of $20,000 each are available for qualified masters and doctoral students for the opportunity to address scientific, technological, and socio-economic issues. Graduate research topics must be relevant to the research themes and issues identified in the 2005 NPRB Science Plan.

Learn more about and apply for a GSRA

Application deadline is February 12, 2010. See the 2010 GSRA guidelines for more information on application requirements. Please contact us with any questions.

2010 Alaska Marine Science Symposium proves popular

The 2010 Symposium was held January 18-22 in Anchorage. An estimated 700-800 people attended the event, which included opening remarks by Alaska Senator Mark Begich (right), marking the first time in the event's history that a U.S. senator has attended in person.

Other activities included daylong plenary talks, a special session on early results of the 2009 Prince William Sound Field Experiment, and keynotes by PIs from the BEST-BSIERP Bering Sea Project, Kate Moran (Office of Science and Technology Policy), Michael Beck (The Nature Conservancy), Larry Mayer (University of New Hampshire), and Charlotte Vick (Google Earth OCEAN).

Attendees filled the hotel's guest rooms and suites; more than 40 non-plenary sessions and workshops were scheduled throughout the week. Two evening poster receptions featured the latest work in marine science off Alaska, and graduate students had the opportunity to compete for cash awards in oral and poster presentations.

Student presenters win awards

Best Poster (cash award from Alaska Sea Grant)

• Jill Seymour, University of Alaska Fairbanks (Masters)
• Nathan Stewart, University of Alaska Fairbanks (PhD)

Best Oral Presentations (cash award from NPRB)

• Mayumi Arimitsu, University of Alaska Fairbanks (Masters)
• Phoebe Chan (right, pictured with Carrie Eischens of NPRB), University of Toronto (Masters)
• Steve Barbeaux, University of Washington (PhD)
• Elizabeth Siddon, University of Alaska Fairbanks (PhD)

Media attention

The event attracted media attention as well, with stories on KTUU-TV Anchorage and KSKA-FM radio.

• Symposium Press Release
• KTUU Channel 2-Anchorage story: "Scientists sort through speculation to find science of climate change"
• APRN (Alaska Public Radio Network) story: "State-of-the-art vessel being built for UA"

Alaska’s premier interdisciplinary marine science conference

Since 2002, the Alaska Marine Science Symposium has provided opportunities for scientists from Alaska, the Pacific Northwest, the Nation, and beyond to inform each other about their research activities in the marine regions off Alaska. The Symposium was made possible by generous support from many sponsors.

Crab bycatch mortality research spotlighted

KUCB-TV Unalaska recently featured ongoing cooperative research between NOAA-NMFS and the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. Researchers want to learn the survival rates of female and sublegal male opilio, or snow crabs (right) that are caught and then returned to the water. See the KUCB report

NPRB Project 917 funds a cooperative effort between the crab fishing fleet and fishery scientists to quantify and reduce bycatch mortality. Using recently established procedures, scientists measure bycatch mortality on vessels fishing for snow crab in the Bering Sea.