Bering Ecosystem Study (BEST) Updates
Draft Social Science Plan on Bering Sea Human-Environmental Dynamics
available.Combined Natural/Social Science Implementation Plan for BEST
available.New NSF Funding Opportunity Now Posted for BEST Natural and Social
Science.
For more information on the new plans, see:
http://www.arcus.org/Bering/index.html
For the NSF funding opportunity, click below:
http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf05618
- Draft Social Science Plan for Research into Bering Sea
Human-Environmental Dynamics: Now available for review and comment.
A committee of social scientists, with the assistance of Bering Sea
residents and others, has over the past 18 months developed a draft
social science plan for research into the linked human-environmental
dynamics of the eastern Bering Sea in the past and present. This draft
plan, called "Sustaining the Bering Ecosystem: A Social Science Plan,"
has been developed to extend a natural science plan for Bering Sea
ecological research into the human and social domain. Collectively the
natural and social science plans constitute the Bering Sea Ecosystem
Study (BEST), part of SEARCH. You are invited to review the draft
science plan and submit comments for its improvement. The plan can be
downloaded as a PDF file from http://www.arcus.org/Bering/hbest/index.html or requested in hard copy from
ARCUS (Alison York, E-mail: york [at] arcus.org -or- ARCUS, 3535 College
Road, Suite 101, Fairbanks, AK 99709. Phone: 907-474-1600, Fax:
907-474-1604).
Comments can be submitted online through the same website, or can be
sent directly to the drafting committee chair, Ben Fitzhugh (E-mail:
fitzhugh [at] u.washington.edu -or- University of Washington, Department of
Anthropology, M32 Denny Hall, Seattle, WA, 98195-3100). It is expected
that a finalized version of this plan will be completed by late November
2005, and comments would be most helpful if received by Tuesday, 15
November 2005. Comments submitted after that date will continue to be
welcome.
- Joint BEST Implementation Plan Available for Review.
A combined implementation plan has been developed to focus an initial
implementation of Bering Sea physical, natural, and social science
research on the question of the loss of sea ice in the eastern Bering
and its implications for ecological and social stability and change. As
with the two broader science plans (natural and social), the BEST
Implementation Plan calls for integrated research across the spectrum of
natural and social phenomena tied to issues of environmental change in
the Bering Sea. Prospective researchers are encouraged to consult this
and the larger science plans for further information on the research
envisioned as part of BEST. The plan can be downloaded as a PDF file
from http://www.arcus.org/Bering/Downloads/BEST_imp_plan_final.pdf or
requested in hard copy from ARCUS (Alison York, E-mail: ork [at] arcus.org
-or- ARCUS, 3535 College Road, Suite 101, Fairbanks, AK 99709. Phone:
907-474-1600, Fax: 907-474-1604).
- New NSF Funding Opportunity Now Posted for BEST Natural and Social
Science.
As previously announced over ArcticInfo, the BEST program is written
into the latest NSF "Arctic Research Opportunities" call for proposals.
Interested researchers should consult the NSF announcement for details:
http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf05618
The target date for submitting NSF proposals for BEST in 2005 is
December 16th.