Building diverse partnerships

Our work is a collaboration of many partners developing the science and unique connections needed to take on the 21st century’s challenges and opportunities. We work to identify, facilitate and communicate research (including data collection, analysis, and synthesis) to address the impacts of rapid environmental change. We build teams of diverse partners, including Federal and Tribal governments, communities, universities, resource managers, agencies, industry and nonprofits, working together in a non-regulatory way to adapt to changes and improve decision-making through investments in applied science, new analytical tools and novel datasets, and community engagement.


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Our Region

Our region includes the islands of the Aleutian archipelago, the associated eastern end of the Alaska Peninsula and the Bering Sea and surrounding marine waters.

Our Success Stories

  • Aleutian & Bering Sea Initiative

    Deploying Geofence technology in western Alaska to protect marine mammal haulouts

    ABSI has helped deploy the first marine ‘geofence’ around the Pribilof Islands as a tool that can alert managers and communities when vessels greater than 300 tons (~60’ or more in length) cross into virtually-fenced areas (“geofences”) around sensitive habitats. Since July 2019, a network of concentric geofences around 14 northern fur seal haulouts on the[…..]

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  • Aleutian & Bering Sea Initiative / Western Alaska Partnership

    Biodiversity Monitoring Synthesis completed to support the Arctic Council

    The Arctic Council is a forum promoting cooperation, coordination and interaction among the eight Arctic States, Arctic Indigenous communities and others on issues like environmental protection.  The Arctic Council’s Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (or “CAFF”) Working Group contracted with ABSI and Western Alaska Partnership to pilot an inventory of biodiversity marine monitoring efforts[…..]

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