NOAA Salmon Survey 2007
Basic Project Information
Start Date:
1 January 2002
Full Title:
NOAA Salmon Survey 2007
Abstract or Short Description:
The Bering-Aleutian Salmon International Survey (BASIS) is NPAFC's coordinated program of cooperative research on Pacific salmon in the Bering Sea that was designed to clarify the mechanisms of biological response by salmon to the conditions caused by climate changes.
Scientific issues that provide necessary direction to the research include (but are not limited to):
Seasonal-specific migration patterns of salmon and their relation to the Bering Sea ecosystem
Key biological, climatic, and oceanographic factors affecting long-term changes in Bering Sea food production and salmon growth rates
Similarities in production trends between salmon populations in the Bering Sea and common factors associated with their trends in survival
Overall limit or carrying capacity of the Bering Sea ecosystem to produce salmon.
Project Web Link:
http://www.npafc.org/new/science_basis.html
Funding Agencies:
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Personnel Information
Principal Investigator(s):
Kathleen Crane (kathy.crane@noaa.gov)
Scientific Focus
Relevant Science Question(s):
How are terrestrial and marine ecosystems and ecosystem services (i.e., processes by which the environment produces resources that support human life) affected by environmental change and its interaction with human activities?
To what extent is the arctic system predictable (i.e., what are the potential accuracies and/or uncertainties in predictions of relevant arctic variables over different timescales)?
What is the direction and relative importance of system feedbacks?
Geographic Information
Region:
Bering Sea Data Collected and/or Produced
Weblink to data and/or metadata:
Project Data 