Welcome to the North Slope Science Initiative (NSSI). The NSSI is an intergovernmental effort to increase collaboration at the local, state, and federal levels to address the research, inventory, and monitoring needs as they relate to development activities on the North Slope of Alaska.

NSSI Data Catalog and Project Tracking

Featured Content

NEW! Federal Register Notice: STAP Senior Staff Committee and Oversight Group Meetings Jan 31 - Feb 2, 2012

NEW! Nominations received for appointment to the Science Technical Advisory Panel have been forwarded to the Secretary of Interior for consideration. The Secretary will make appointments after careful review of all nominations.

NEW! Arctic Connectivity Paper Published (September 2011)

NEW! Barrow Workshop (March 2011) Final Report

NSSI 2010 Report to Congress

North Slope Aviation Map

Upload your poster/presentation slides from the March 29, 2011 Workshop in Barrow

Download the 1990 report on Science in Northwest Alaska: Research Needs and Opportunities on Federally-Protected Lands

How to Use This Place (Lotus Quickr for NSSI)

Take a Tour of Lotus Quickr

Arctic Report Card: Update for 2010 Released

NSSI Land Cover Project 2010 Report

Emerging Issues Summaries

Emerging Issues Geospatial Data Requirements
NSSI Tundra Lake Studies Website

NSSI Data Products and NSSI Project Tracking System

Canada and U.S. Oil and Gas Research Forum 2010

Meetings

Oversight Group meeting scheduled for October 27, 2011, Anchorage, Alaska. This meeting will be held in the Anchorage Federal Building, Room 154, from 8:30 AM to 11:30 AM.

Scope, Mission and Vision of the NSSI

The North Slope Science Initiative (NSSI) was developed by federal, state and local governments with trust responsibilities for land and ocean management, to facilitate and improve collection and dissemination of ecosystem information pertaining to the Alaskan North Slope region, including coastal and offshore regions.

The mission of the NSSI is to improve scientific and regulatory understanding of terrestrial, aquatic and marine ecosystems for consideration in the context of resource development activities and climate change.

The vision of the NSSI is to identify those data and information needs management agencies and governments will need in the future to develop management scenarios using the best information and mitigation to conserve the environments of the North Slope. The NSSI adopts a strategic framework to provide resource managers with the data and analyses they need to help evaluate multiple simultaneous goals and objectives related to each agency’s mission on the North Slope. The NSSI uses and complements the information produced under other North Slope science programs, both internal and external. The NSSI also facilitates information sharing among agencies, non-governmental organizations, industry, academia, international programs and members of the public to increase communication and reduce redundancy among science programs.

This website is operated by MTRI through an Assistance Agreement administered by the Bureau of Land Management, as the administrative agency of the North Slope Science Initiative, and by a Memorandum of Understanding with the membership of the North Slope Science Initiative.