US Liaison Activity for the international ESSAS Program

提供资金，为次北冰洋生态系统研究(ESSAS)方案的美国部分建立联络活动。这将支持ESSAS美国联合主席的行政活动，并促进与ESSAS有关的美国项目与挪威卑尔根ESSAS项目办公室之间的沟通。这些项目包括MENU，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)计划。其他涉及美国科学家的ESSAS项目正在规划阶段。建立ESSAS的目的是促进利用次北极海洋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。ESSAS的动机是认识到，亚北极海洋正处于重大的、相互关联的物理和生物变化之中，这可能会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的物理性质和过程以及生物随后的反应，从个体生理水平到生态系统的结构和功能。

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.