This material is based upon work supported by the Department of Energy under grant number DE-FG02-09ER64727, the Environmental Protection Agency under contract number EP09H000821, the Food and Drug Administration under…

Provides a framework to help the NPRB identify appropriate science themes and mechanisms for administering and distributing the funds. This book contains extensive input from residents of Alaskan communities, to…

Atlantic salmon in Maine, once abundant but now seriously depleted, were listed as endangered under the federal Endangered Species Act (ESA) in November 2000. The listing covers the wild fish…

In recent years there has been growing interest in having fisheries stakeholders involved in various aspects of fisheries data collection and experimentation. This activity is generally known as cooperative research…

Because of the pervasive and substantial decline of Atlantic salmon populations in Maine over the past 150 years, and because they are close to extinction, a comprehensive statewide action should…

The coastal zone is of enormous importance to a nation’s well-being. This book identifies and suggests mechanisms for addressing the needs for spatial information in the coastal zone. It also…

The growing problem of changing environmental conditions caused by climate destabilization is well recognized as one of the defining issues of our time. The root problem is greenhouse gas emissions…

California’s Bay-Delta estuary is a biologically diverse estuarine ecosystem that plays a central role in the distribution of California’s water from the state’s wetter northern regions to its southern, arid…