US Liaison Activity for the international ESSAS Program

为亚北极海洋生态系统研究（ESSAS）计划的美国部分建立联络活动提供了资金。这将支持ESSAS美国联合主席的行政活动，并促进与ESSAS相关的美国项目与挪威卑尔根的ESSAS项目办公室之间的沟通。这些项目包括MENU，一项挪威-美国联合比较研究（挪威和美国的海洋生态系统）和BEST，新资助的白令海生态系统研究（BEST）项目。涉及美国科学家的其他ESSAS项目正在规划阶段。建立该系统的目的是促进利用亚北极海的比较研究，作为预测海洋生态系统对气候变化的反应及其对渔业可持续性的影响的工具。该方案的动机是认识到，亚北极海正处于重大的、相互关联的物理和生物变化之中，可能影响其鱼类和贝类生产的可持续性。这些变化涉及气候对海洋物理特性和过程的强迫作用，以及生物体从个体生理到生态系统结构和功能的相应反应。

Funds are provided to establish a Liaison Activity for the US section of the Ecosystem Studies of Sub-Arctic Seas (ESSAS) program. This will support the administrative activities of the US Co-Chair of ESSAS and facilitate communications between the US programs associated with ESSAS and the ESSAS Project Office in Bergen, Norway. These programs include MENU, a joint Norwegian-US comparative study (Marine Ecosystems of Norway and the US) and BEST, the newly funded Bering Sea Ecosystem Study (BEST) Program. Additional ESSAS programs involving US scientists are in the planning phase. ESSAS was founded to facilitate the use of comparative studies of the sub-arctic seas as a tool for predicting marine ecosystem response to climate change and its effects on the sustainability of fisheries. ESSAS is motivated by the realization that the sub-arctic seas are in the midst of significant, interrelated physical and biological change that may impact the sustainability of their production of fish and shellfish. These changes involve climate forcing of physical properties and processes in the ocean and the subsequent responses of organisms, from the level of individual physiology to the structure and function of ecosystems.