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Decline of the Steller Sea Lion in Alaskan Waters: Untangling Food Webs and Fishing Nets (2003)

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Suggested Citation:"Appendix G: National Research Council Project Oversight Boards." National Research Council. 2003. Decline of the Steller Sea Lion in Alaskan Waters: Untangling Food Webs and Fishing Nets. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10576.
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APPENDIX G National Research Council Project Oversight Boards

OCEAN STUDIES BOARD

NANCY RABALAIS (Chair), Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium, Chauvin

ARTHUR BAGGEROER, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge

JAMES COLEMAN, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge

LARRY CROWDER, Duke University, Beaufort, North Carolina

G. BRENT DALRYMPLE, Oregon State University, Corvalis

RICHARD B. DERISO, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California

EARL DOYLE, Shell Oil (Retired), Sugar Land, Texas

ROBERT DUCE, Texas A&M University, College Station

WAYNE R. GEYER, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts

D. JAY GRIMES, University of Southern Mississippi, Ocean Springs

MIRIAM KASTNER, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California

CINDY LEE, State University of New York at Stony Brook

RALPH S. LEWIS, Connecticut Geological Survey, Hartford

BONNIE MCCAY, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey

JULIAN P. McCREARY, Jr., University of Hawaii, Honolulu

Suggested Citation:"Appendix G: National Research Council Project Oversight Boards." National Research Council. 2003. Decline of the Steller Sea Lion in Alaskan Waters: Untangling Food Webs and Fishing Nets. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10576.
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JACQUELINE MICHEL, Research Planning, Inc., Columbus, South Carolina

RAM MOHAN, Gahagan & Bryant Associates, Inc., Baltimore, Maryland

SCOTT NIXON, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett

JON SUTINEN, University of Rhode Island, Kingston

NANCY TARGETT, University of Delaware, Lewes

PAUL TOBIN, Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association, Fairfax, Virginia

Staff

MORGAN GOPNIK, Director

SUSAN ROBERTS, Senior Program Officer

DAN WALKER, Senior Program Officer

JOANNE BINTZ, Program Officer

JENNIFER MERRILL, Program Officer

TERRY SCHAEFER, Program Officer

ROBIN MORRIS, Financial Officer

JOHN DANDELSKI, Research Associate

SHIREL SMITH, Administrative Associate

JODI BACHIM, Senior Project Assistant

NANCY CAPUTO, Senior Project Assistant

DENISE GREENE, Senior Project Assistant

SARAH CAPOTE, Project Assistant

BYRON MASON, Project Assistant

JULIE PULLEY, Project Assistant

Suggested Citation:"Appendix G: National Research Council Project Oversight Boards." National Research Council. 2003. Decline of the Steller Sea Lion in Alaskan Waters: Untangling Food Webs and Fishing Nets. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10576.
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POLAR RESEARCH BOARD

ROBIN BELL (Chair), Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, New York

MARY ALBERT, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, New Hampshire

RICHARD B. ALLEY, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

AKHIL DATTA-GUPTA, Texas A&M University, College Station

GEORGE DENTON, University of Maine, Orono

HENRY P. HUNTINGTON, Huntington Consulting, Eagle River, Alaska

DAVID KARL, University of Hawaii, Honolulu

AMANDaA LYNCH, University of Colorado, Boulder

W. BERRY LYONS, Ohio State University, Columbus

ROBIE MACDONALD, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, British Columbia

MILES MCPHEE, McPhee Research Company, Naches, Washington

CAROLE L. SEYFRIT, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia

Ex-Officio Members

MAHLON KENNICUTT, Texas A&M University, College Station

ROBERT RUTFORD, University of Texas, Dallas

PATRICK WEBBER, Michigan State University, East Lansing

Staff

CHRIS ELFRING, Director

SHELDON DROBOT, Program Officer

ANN CARLISLE, Administrative Associate

Suggested Citation:"Appendix G: National Research Council Project Oversight Boards." National Research Council. 2003. Decline of the Steller Sea Lion in Alaskan Waters: Untangling Food Webs and Fishing Nets. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10576.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix G: National Research Council Project Oversight Boards." National Research Council. 2003. Decline of the Steller Sea Lion in Alaskan Waters: Untangling Food Webs and Fishing Nets. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10576.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix G: National Research Council Project Oversight Boards." National Research Council. 2003. Decline of the Steller Sea Lion in Alaskan Waters: Untangling Food Webs and Fishing Nets. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10576.
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For an unknown reason, the Steller sea lion population in Alaska has declined by 80% over the past three decades. In 2001, the National Research Council began a study to assess the many hypotheses proposed to explain the sea lion decline including insufficient food due to fishing or the late 1970s climate/regime shift, a disease epidemic, pollution, illegal shooting, subsistence harvest, and predation by killer whales or sharks. The report's analysis indicates that the population decline cannot be explained only by a decreased availability of food; hence other factors, such as predation and illegal shooting, deserve further study. The report recommends a management strategy that could help determine the impact of fisheries on sea lion survival -- establishing open and closed fishing areas around sea lion rookeries. This strategy would allow researchers to study sea lions in relatively controlled, contrasting environments. Experimental area closures will help fill some short-term data gaps, but long-term monitoring will be required to understand why sea lions are at a fraction of their former abundance.

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