Program management support for the integrated, multidisciplinary Bering Sea Project: Maximizing return on investment

该奖项将支持项目办公室和协同活动，以完成由国家科学基金会和北太平洋研究委员会(NPRB)之间的合作伙伴关系资助的东白令海综合多学科研究计划。自2007年以来，白令海项目已经启动了数十个单独的研究项目和100多名调查人员，所有这些项目都致力于提高我们对这个高生产力(和经济关键的)海洋生态系统如何应对气候变化的理解，特别是通过季节性冰盖的变化。该奖项旨在通过几项被认为对捕捉和传播该计划的科学成就最关键的关键活动，在该计划的最后两年内最大限度地实现国家科学基金S和国家公共政策研究局S的投资回报。该项目将提供经费，用于1)出版科学期刊《深海研究II》专题特刊，2)白令海项目科学咨询委员会成员前往弗吉尼亚州阿灵顿参加一次面对面会议和一次科学会议(2014年阿拉斯加海洋科学专题讨论会)，以及3)与2014年一次顶石公开科学会议有关的旅费和会议费。从一开始，白令海项目就包含了一系列不同的交流、推广和教育活动，以向利益相关者、教师、学生和公众传达该项目的科学发现。资金将用于印刷和电子出版简短的“头条新闻”科学概要、一本较长的白令海项目杂志和一篇具有纲领性的“经验教训”文章。

This award will support program office and synergistic activities to conclude an integrated, multidisciplinary research program in the eastern Bering Sea, funded through a partnership between the National Science Foundation and the North Pacific Research Board (NPRB). Underway since 2007, the Bering Sea Project has involved dozens of individual research projects and more than 100 investigators, all working toward the goal of improving our understanding of how this highly productive (and economically critical) marine ecosystem may respond to climate change, particularly as mediated through changes in seasonal ice cover. This award seeks to maximize the return on NSF?s and NPRB?s investment during the final two years of the program, through several key activities deemed most critical to capturing and communicating the program's scientific accomplishments. The project would provide funds for 1) publication of thematic special issues of the scientific journal Deep-Sea Research II, 2) travel for members of the Bering Sea Project Science Advisory Board (SAB) to one in-person meeting in Arlington, Virginia and a scientific meeting (the 2014 Alaska Marine Science Symposium), and 3) travel and meeting expenses associated with a capstone open science meeting in 2014. From the start, the Bering Sea Project has incorporated a diverse suite of communication, outreach, and education activities to convey the scientific discoveries of the program to stakeholders, teachers, students, and the public. Funding would support print and electronic publication of short "headlines" scientific synopses, a longer Bering Sea Project magazine, and a programmatic "lessons learned" article.