SOLICITATION NOTICE
R -- RESEARCH SPECIALIST
- Notice Date
- 5/18/2006
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- NAICS
- 561990
— All Other Support Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Western Administrative Support Center, 7600 Sand Point Way, Northeast, Seattle, WA, 98115-6349
- ZIP Code
- 98115-6349
- Solicitation Number
- WASC-6-0688
- Response Due
- 6/2/2006
- Archive Date
- 6/17/2006
- Description
- This requirement is being procured and an award will be made in accordance with FAR Part 13, Simplifies Acquisition Procedures. The office of NOAA, National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) located in Santa Cruz, Ca intend to negotiate on a sole source basis with the University of Calfornia, Santa Cruz for research specialist. Background FATE is an iterative research program that develops and evaluates an expanding array of ecological and oceanographic products intended for use in fishery stock assessment models. Most of these products have been derived from a ?one species ? one index? approach. While this approach has yielded fruitful results for a number of commercially important stocks, an ecosystem-based approach to fisheries management requires an integrated ecosystem assessment. This proposal builds on the results of previously funded FATE projects, to move beyond correlative-based single-species indices and to address more realistically the complex interaction between environmental forcing and ecosystem variability. Our objective is to develop and validate a manageable set of leading ecological indicators that incorporate the complex physical-biological interactions driving variability in key populations that represent larger elements of the California Current ecosystem. We seek to do this with a team of oceanographers, fisheries biologists, seabird ecologists, and stock assessment scientists. We believe this approach will address the requirements of an ecosystem-based approach to management, and moves FATE into a new phase as a program that provides science-based information to decision-makers. Deliverables Creation of life history matrices summarizing the relevant environmental influences and critical life history stages for eight species central to the CCS ecosystem (Figure 1; Year 1); Creation of a CCS ecosystem response matrix summarizing how representative critical ecosystem components respond to environmental forcing (Year 1); Development and dissemination of a set of physical (bottom-up) and biological (top-down) indices that represent broad impacts on the CCS ecosystem (Year 1); Development and validation of a set of leading ecological indicators for the CCS ecosystem (Year 2); Integration of the acquired information for implementation into stock-specific and ecosystem-based assessment models (Year 2). This project is part of the "Bottom-Up and Top-Down Indicators of Ecosystem Variability: An Integrated Ecosystem Assessment for the California Current System" which was funded by the FATE program (Fisheries and the Future) in response to a carefully constructed grant by a group of researchers that brought various areas of expertise to the project. One of the components is under the oversight of a UCSC Post Doc researcher. His involvement in this project is based on his unique experience and expertise in measuring and analyzing climatic effects on salmon aging and abundance. There are many partners from various institutions that collaborated on this proposal and it is critical they each participate and contribute their designated special skills for the successful completion of the project. The period of performance is July 2006 through May 2008. This notice may represent the only official notice. All interested parties must respond to this announcement within fifteen calendar (15) days of its publication. All responses must be in writing and may be faxed to (206)-526-6025 attention to Melvin Fondue.
- Record
- SN01052756-W 20060520/060519133733 (fbodaily.com)
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