Project Information

Title: LTM Program : Program Management I - Program Coordination and Science Synthesis 18120114-A

Project Year and Number: 2018: 18120114-A

Other Fiscal Years and Numbers for this Project: 2024: 2422LTRM A-B, 2023: 2322LTRM A-B, 2022: 2222LTRM, 2021: 21120114-A, 2020: 20120114-A, 2019: 19120114-A, 2017: 17120114-A

Principal Investigator (PI): Mandy Lindeberg (NOAA)

Managing Agency: NOAA

Assisting Personnel: Donna Aderhold (Prince William Sound Science Center), Rob Suryan (NOAA Fisheries)

Project Website: https://gulfwatchalaska.org/program-services/

Research Location: Gulf of Alaska

Restoration Category: Public Info. Science Mgmt. and Administration, Research

Injured Resources Addressed: Not Specified

Abstract:

The Program Management I project provides program coordination and science synthesis of data for the EVOSTC’s integrated Long-term Monitoring of Marine Conditions and Injured Resources and Services program, referred to as Gulf Watch Alaska (GWA). The leadership team of the GWA program manages over two dozen principal investigators and collaborators producing a wealth of scientific information on the northern Gulf of Alaska ecosystem and spill-affected area. Program coordination and science synthesis is a key component that improves linkages between monitoring efforts spanning large regional areas (Prince William Sound, Gulf of Alaska shelf, lower Cook Inlet). Program coordination includes facilitating program planning and sharing of information between principal investigators, other Trustee-funded programs, and non-Trustee organizations. High quality products and science synthesis efforts help communicate monitoring results by delivering reports, publishing data, developing scientific papers, supporting outreach and integrating information across the entire program. The GWA program has matured in the first five years and successful management of the program will continue to rely on effective program and science coordination into the next five-year increment. Major accomplishments of program management and science coordination in FY17 included coordinating completion, review, and submission of FY12-16 GWA final reports, completion of the Deep-Sea Research II GWA special issue (19 papers), and inauguration of the second 5-yr period of GWA for the program management team. Inauguration included orientation of new personnel, evaluating successes and challenges of first 5-yrs and identifying improvements and efficiencies for the second 5-yr period. During FY18, key directions of program coordination and science synthesis will include improving efficiencies and facilitating program reporting requirements for PIs, identifying GWA indicators from each project to contribute to annual ecosystem status and oil spill recovery assessments, standardizing reporting, and identifying main cross-program science synthesis products for GWA, HRM, and other Gulf of Alaska investigations. We are not proposing any major changes to this project for FY18.


Proposal: View (233 KB)

Reports:
Annual Report FY18: View (449 KB)
Final Report: See Project 21120114-A

Publications from this Project: None Available