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Greetings arrived from the project inspection team outside of the newly constructed Ted Stevens Marine Research Institute in Juneau, Alaska. The new National Marine Fisheries Service science and research institute is the new home of the significantly upgraded Alaska Fisheries Science Center’s Auke Bay Laboratories.
Major fishing industries, state and federal fishery regulators, and international treaty bodies depend on Auke Bay’s broadly used information about fish stocks, fish habitats, and the chemistry of marine
environments. The upgraded lab enables NOAA to expand into critical research areas, including work aimed at understanding species -specific physiological responses to likely consequences of changing climate. With such understanding, NOAA can develop models to forecast the population, community and ecosystem effects of these responses and develop scenarios to forecast the socio-economic consequences.
Shown (from left): Tom Martin, Judi Jzyk, Mark Eberling, Rino Balatbat, Ken Bircher, and Tino Escalona.
