Alaska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit
The Alaska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit (est. 1950) is a partnership among the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, the University of Alaska Fairbanks, the U.S. Geological Survey, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Wildlife Management Institute.
The Alaska Unit sponsors dozens of projects and graduate students in research that ranges topically from productivity of fish and wildlife populations to effects of contaminants on coastal ecosystems, and geographically from southeast Alaska rain forests to the boreal forest of Alaska's Interior, to the tundra of the North Slope.
The research program of the Alaska Unit is aimed at understanding the ecology of Alaska's fish and wildlife; evaluating impacts of land use and development on these resources; and relating effects of social and economic needs to production and harvest of natural populations.
In addition to the Unit functions of graduate student training/ instruction and technical assistance, research efforts are directed at problems of productivity, socioeconomic impacts, and perturbation on fish and wildlife populations, their habitats and ecosystems. Fisheries research emphasizes water quality, habitat characteristics, and life history requirements of arctic and subarctic fish populations. Wildlife research focuses on evaluation of habitat quality and ecology of northern birds and mammals. Unit research is also be directed at integrated studies of fish and wildlife at the ecosystem level.
The Alaska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit (est. 1950) is a partnership among the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, the University of Alaska Fairbanks, the U.S. Geological Survey, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Wildlife Management Institute.
The Alaska Unit sponsors dozens of projects and graduate students in research that ranges topically from productivity of fish and wildlife populations to effects of contaminants on coastal ecosystems, and geographically from southeast Alaska rain forests to the boreal forest of Alaska's Interior, to the tundra of the North Slope.
The research program of the Alaska Unit is aimed at understanding the ecology of Alaska's fish and wildlife; evaluating impacts of land use and development on these resources; and relating effects of social and economic needs to production and harvest of natural populations.
In addition to the Unit functions of graduate student training/ instruction and technical assistance, research efforts are directed at problems of productivity, socioeconomic impacts, and perturbation on fish and wildlife populations, their habitats and ecosystems. Fisheries research emphasizes water quality, habitat characteristics, and life history requirements of arctic and subarctic fish populations. Wildlife research focuses on evaluation of habitat quality and ecology of northern birds and mammals. Unit research is also be directed at integrated studies of fish and wildlife at the ecosystem level.