ICE SEAL COMMITTEE

• NOAA - NMFS - Alaska Regional Office

  • Ringed Seal Five-Year Review

  • Stranding Network

  • Marine Mammal Health

  • Monthly call-in meetings

• NOAA - NMFS - Marine Mammal Lab

  • 2024 Ice Seal Aerial Survey update and plans for 2025

  • 2024 Ice Seal Research Cruise update

  • Trophic Roles Project

  • Alaska Native Alaska participation discussion

• Hilcorp

  • North Star Ringed Seal Monitoring

• U of Alaska Fairbanks

  • Children's book "Natchiq Grows Up"

  • Marine Traffic Overlap with Tagged Ringed Seals, 2013-2022

  • Alaska Arctic Observatory & Knowledge Hub (AAOKH)

  • Exploring Novel Technologies to Assess the Terrestrial Ecology of Spotted Seals

• ​U of British Columbia

  • Integration of Traditional Knowledge and Western Science Using a Bayesian Approach for Fully Informed Models

  • Indigenous Knowledge Habitat Models of Bearded Seals (Ugruk, Erignathus barbatus) in Coastal Alaskan Waters - Update on Lenfest Grant​​

• ADFG - Arctic Marine Mammal Program

  • Ice Seal harvest-monitoring, biomonitoring, genetics (CKMR), and winter density project (Prudhoe Bay)

• Aleut Community of St. Paul Island

  • Update on the NETS project status

    • NETS overview

    • Letter opposing NETS

    • Recent news article about the postponement of NETS​

    • email from NOAA regarding NETS postponement

  • Update on the Indigenous Sentinels Network (ISN)

• Michigan State University

  • Exploring Alaska:  Building Partnerships, Understanding Co-Management, and Navigating Subsistence Challenges

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