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5. Findings and Recommendations
5. Findings and Recommendations
Pages 79-85
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A successful science plan operates under the aegis of an overall conceptual framework. It contains clearly defined scientific goals and program management policies, has an effective data management and dissemination strategy, is actively coordinating with other funding programs, develops applications that are useful to decision makers and stakeholders, and recognizes the importance of public interaction and the use of traditional knowledge.
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Finding 3: Although the NPRB funds are a large new contribution to the total research budget of the area, they are not limitless and they do fluctuate over time due to fluctuating interest rates. Recommendation 3-1: During periods of funding constraints, all long term monitoring should be protected and short-term process studies should focus on core scientific questions.
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Those regional and large-scale studies should be well integrated. Recommendation 4-5: The NPRB should encourage proposals that include data on the roles and trends of important noncommercial species, such as potential prey species, indicator species, keystone species, and others.
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Several groups, such as the Alaska Native Science Commission, have expertise in this process, and the NPRB should work with appropriate stakeholder representatives to develop strategies for accomplishing scientist stakeholder interaction. Recommendation 6-2: The NPRB should consider funding the collec tion of traditional knowledge relevant to its goals and should encour age the incorporation of traditional knowledge into research planning and hypothesis development.
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Recommendation 12-1: The NPRB Science Panel or other scientists with appropriate expertise in regional scientific issues, who can place the regional science within the larger framework, should write the NPRB Science Plan. The Proposal Process Finding 13: The current management structure can lead to real or perceived conflict of interest in reviewing and awarding research grants.
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The criteria established by the National Science Foundation are especially respected within the scientific community and might serve as a model. Recommendation 14-3: The Science Panel should appoint a Proposal Selection Committee to rank research proposals and advise the execu tive director of its decisions.
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Recent successful examples for the NPRB to follow include the Long Term Ecological Research Network, the Ridge Inter-Disciplinary Global Experiment, and the Joint Global Ocean Flux Study. Finding 18: Archiving tissue samples and organisms provides a basis for documenting and understanding biodiversity.
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