State of Alaskan Salmon and People (SASAP)

State of Alaskan Salmon and People (SASAP) is a knowledge synthesis that is designed to inform the future of management of Alaska’s wild salmon. The SASAP project specifically seeks to: * connect knowledge across disciplines and agencies, between cultures and users, and across regions such that we gain a fuller picture of this complex and dynamic system, can set shared research priorities, develop and monitor indicators of system health and drive better management of the system; and * create new institutional capacity for interdisciplinary salmon knowledge generation and to establish a shared and credible baseline for integrated knowledge that can be built on over time. The knowledge generated from the SASAP project is expected to pay a seminal role informing future salmon management and research in Alaska and more broadly in the North Pacific region. Outputs from the SASAP synthesis will be used by government, education, research, community and commercial interests to strengthen their understanding of salmon systems and prioritize future research, monitoring and management efforts. NCEAS will collaborate with subawardee and project coordinator, Nautilus Impact Investing (NII), to establish a number of Working Groups (approximately 10) which will focus on the wide range of issues associated with Alaska’s salmon, including but not limited to, social, legal, cultural, economic and environmental concerns. In addition all working groups will have an opportunity to collaborate and exchange knowledge during two three-day meetings per year. It is expected that many of these groups will be linked with the University of Alaska system and NCEAS will play a key mentoring role for those participants, helping develop their capacity for interdisciplinary research and collaboration.