Project Information

Title: LTM Program: Program Management I - Synthesis and Coordination, Postdoctoral Researcher 21120114-A

Project Year and Number: 2021: 21120114-A

Other Fiscal Years and Numbers for this Project: 2023: 2322LTRM A-B, 2022: 2222LTRM, 2020: 20120114-A, 2019: 19120114-A, 2018: 18120114-A, 2017: 17120114-A

Principal Investigator (PI): Mandy Lindeberg (NOAA/NMFS Auke Bay Laboratory)

Managing Agency: NOAA

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

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 (PM I) project provides program coordination and science synthesis of data for the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council’s (EVOSTC’s) integrated Long-term Monitoring of Marine Conditions and Injured Resources and Services program, referred to as Gulf Watch Alaska (GWA). The Program Management II (PM II) project is the administrative and outreach component of GWA. The Prince William Sound Science Center (PWSSC) serves as the fiscal agent for non-Trustee Agency recipients of GWA funds. The workplans for these two projects are combined because together they represent management of the GWA program.

The program management team (PMT, collectively PM I and PM II) oversees more than two dozen principal investigators (PIs), collaborators, and science reviewers to produce and integrate a wealth of scientific information on the northern Gulf of Alaska ecosystem and spill-affected area and share that information with others. Program coordination and science synthesis (PM I) improves linkages between monitoring efforts spanning large regional areas (from Prince William Sound to lower Cook Inlet and the Alaska Peninsula). Program coordination includes facilitating within program planning and sharing of information between PIs, 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. Program administration, science review panel, logistics, and outreach (including website), and community involvement (PM II) complements work under the PM I project. The administrative portion of the PM II project oversees funds for non-Trustee Agencies, while also providing travel and logistics for GWA in-person meetings and teleconferences.

FY20 was disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic and the PMT worked with all program members to identify scientific priorities and adapt schedules and budgets accordingly. We maintained all of the program administration and some online outreach activities, which included contributing four articles to Delta Sound Connections, producing a few program presentations/outreach products, continuing science synthesis efforts in revising our synthesis report and related manuscripts, leading a new Deep-Sea Research II special journal issue for the Gulf of Alaska, and contributing time series indicators to inform ecosystem-based fisheries management in the Gulf of Alaska. The PMT also held the 2020 Science Synthesis Workshop with EVOSTC staff. Overall, there are no changes to this projects’ objectives or total budget request.


Proposal: View (449 KB)

Reports:
FY17-21 Final Report: View (1,201 KB)

Publications from this Project: None Available