The NPRB Core program promotes cooperative and disciplinary research, funding 49 projects in response to the 2017 and 2018 Requests for Proposals (RFPs). As this report goes to press, staff has received the first proposals under the new no-deadline, rolling submissions approach to the Core Program RFP for 2019. In 2017 and 2018, the Board funded a new category of Outreach proposal substantially increasing support for cutting edge outreach efforts by scientists and outreach experts associated with the Core Program subawards. In 2017 and 2018, NPRB also issued twelve graduate student awards; GSRA alumni who have successfully established their own scientific careers continue to cross our radar, most recently as two of the keynote speakers at the 2018 Sitka WhaleFest (featured at page 40 in this biennial report).
NPRB continues to identify new partnerships as part of the Board’s strategic and financial planning for the current gradual decline in our primary funding source, which is derived from interest on ten-year U.S. Treasury notes. NPRB will remain a reliable source of research support by increasing our efficiencies and carefully tailoring, rather than growing, our operations in the next biennium.
The people and institutions responsible for ensuring the health of our marine resources, and the individuals and industries that depend on them, all benefit from NPRB-funded research. Thank you for joining us in this critically important work, which the following pages bring to life. We welcome your feedback and ideas for how NPRB can continue to set the standard for funding high quality marine research that sparks scientific inquiry to serve all who care about the North Pacific and its marine resources.
Betsy Baker
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