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Environmental changes will bring impacts to communities of the region and globally-important natural resources --including the loss of sea ice, increased storm activity, and profound shifts in the species that make up its rich marine food webs.
With such uncertainty and so much at stake, substantial investment has been made toward understanding changes in the marine system of the region, including by the North Pacific Research Board, National Science Foundation, local communities, state, federal, and local governments, and universities. ABSI LCC as additional capacity to build on the knowledge gained by these and other efforts in the region. Our public-private partnership fosters integrated science focused on the needs of land and resource managers in the region as they respond to climate change and other landscape-scale stressors. |
In order to focus our effort on science needs common to multiple to managers we initiated a strategic science planning process for the ABSI region in 2011. We began by compiling over 50 existing research and management plans relevant to the Aleutians and Bering Sea. These plans range from single and multi-species management plans to those proposing strategies for ecosystem-wide management. Collectively, they represent a rich legacy of effort from countless resource managers and researchers. Through an analysis of these plans we have identified six landscape-scale stressors facing the region.
The Strategic Science Plan is intended to guide the activities of the ABSI LCC for the next five years, including decisions about future Requests for Proposals and project funding. The final version of the plan is available using the links provided below. Science Plan Documents 
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