Joint Research Programs
FOCI link to FOCI        NPCREP  link to NPCREP

NOAA/NMFS/Alaska Fisheries Science Center
and
NOAA/OAR/Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory

Array of photos depicting EcoFOCI work: copepods, ice map Bering Sea, CTD data collection, NOAA Ship Ron Brown, FOCI mooring in icy sea, drifter map, steller sea lion with pup MMicroscope photo of female copepods carrying egg sacs. Ice cover in the Bering Sea Launching a CTD (Conductivity, Temperature, Depth) rosette with instruments. The NOAA Research Ship Ron Brown An EcoFOCI Surface Mooring in Ice in the Bering Sea Gulf of Alaska Satellite-Tracked Drifters. Steller Sea Lion - the Western Population is in Decline

A common goal of these research programs is to study relationships between the marine ecosystem, climate, and the survival of commercially valuable fish in the Gulf of Alaska and eastern Bering Sea.
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