Activities of the Marine Ecosystems Collaboration Team within the US Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee


Session ID#: 33479

Session Description:
The Marine Ecosystems Collaboration Team (MECT) is one of nine teams within a unique U.S. Federal/Non-federal collaboration framework created within the Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee (IARPC). The MECT is a new team created as part of U.S. Arctic Research Plan 2017-2021, combining elements of the previous U.S Arctic Research Plan 2013-2017's Distributed Biological Observatory Collaboration Team and Chukchi & Beaufort Seas Collaboration Team. This Town Hall session will provide a general description of IARPC’s unique Federal/non-federal collaboration model and then highlight the particular workings and achievements of the MECT to address its 13 research objectives and associated performance elements. Case studies of ongoing interagency collaborative research projects will be presented. We will also provide recent organizational updates as well as an outlook of potential leveraging opportunities within ongoing and planned research programs through a planned community input link via the MECT web portal. The co-chairs of the MECT are Guillermo Auad (Bureau of Ocean Energy Management), Danielle Dickson (North Pacific Research Board), and Jackie Grebmeier (University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science). Further information on the MECT is available at: https://www.iarpccollaborations.org/teams/Marine-Ecosystems.
Primary Contact:  Jacqueline M. Grebmeier, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, Solomons, MD, United States
Presenters:  Guillermo Auad, U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Sterling, VA, United States and Danielle Dickson, North Pacific Research Board Anchorage, Anchorage, AK, United States
Cross-Topics:
  • ES - Ecology and Social Interactions
  • HE - High Latitude Environments
  • ME - Marine Ecosystems
 

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