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University of Washington
, Seattle; the
Russian Academy
of Sciences, Far East Branch
, Vladivostok; and the Sapporo and Hakodate campuses of
Hokkaido University
, Hokkaido, Japan.
Okhotskia was conceived as a natural extension of our highly successful
International
Kuril Island Project
(IKIP), which we now recognize as Phase One of this expanded effort.
Considering the enormous potential for biotic
survey in the Russian Far East,
we have now put the Kuril work into the broader context of a long-term,
large-scale survey and inventory
that encompasses all of the terrestrial and
freshwater habitats associated with the landmasses that define the boundaries
of the Okhotsk Sea.
A proposal submitted in November 1999 to the
National Science Foundation
(NSF), Division of Environmental Biology,
Biotic Surveys and
Inventories
Program, has resulted in a one year grant to launch Phase Two of this program:
the
International Sakhalin Island Project
(ISIP),
a biotic survey and inventory of Sakhalin Island. A follow-up
request to expand the work to encompass a full five years on Sakhalin was
submitted to the NSF in November 2000 and we are now awaiting the results of
that review process.
The primary purpose of the Okhotskia web site is to provide a gateway to our
Kuril
Archipelago and Sakhalin Island web-sites, to thus provide, in turn,
easy access to project results and databases, both for participants
and other
interested scientists. We have also included contact information for all
project personnel. Graphical button bars are provided
at the top and bottom
of each page to aid navigation to each of the major sections of the IKIP and
ISIP
sites. For those using browsers
without graphics support, the links provided
by the button bars are:
Okhotskia Main Page
,
Kuril Project
,
Sakhalin Project
,
Project Database
and
Links
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