Alaska Native Co-Management Organizations
The NSB DWM works with or participates in the following Alaska Native Co-Management Organizations and more:
ABWC Alaska Beluga Whale Committee
NSB-DWM contact: Billy Adams and Robert Suydam
AEWC Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission
NSB-DWM contact: Billy Adams
AMBCC Alaska Migratory Bird Co-management Council
NSB-DWM contact: Taqulik Hepa
ANCC Alaska Nannut Co-Managment Council
NSB-DWM contact: Billy Adams and Taqulik Hepa
CAFF Arctic Council Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna
NSB-DWM contact: Taqulik Hepa
EWC Eskimo Walrus Commission
Barrow contact: Charlie Brower
NSB-DWM contact: Billy Adams
ISC Ice Seal Committee
NSB-DWM contact: Billy Adams and Andy VonDuyke
IIBWC Inuvialuit and Inupiat Beluga Whale Commission
NSB-DWM contact: Robert Suydam
IIPBC Inuvialuit and Inupiat Polar Bear Commission
NSB-DWM contact: Taqulik Hepa and Billy Adams
IIBWC and IIPBC – NSB-DWM collaborates with IGC Inuvialuit Game Council
IPCOMM Indigenous People’s Council on Marine Mammals
NSB-DWM contact: Taqulik Hepa and Billy Adams
Other Subsistence User Groups
The NSB DWM participates in the following Subsistence User groups and more:
ADFG Alaska Board of Game
NSB-DWM contact: Taqulik Hepa
FSB RAC Federal Subsistence Board North Slope Subsistence Regional Advisory Council
NSB-DWM information contact: Brian Person
Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve Resource Commission
NSB-DWM contact: Taqulik Hepa
IWC International Whaling Commission
NSB-DWM contact: Taqulik Hepa, Robert Suydam
MMC US Marine Mammal Commission
NSB-DWM contact: Robert Suydam
NSSI North Slope Science Initiative
NSB-DWM contact: Robert Suydam, Brian Person and Todd Sformo
Polar Bear Range States
NSB-DWM contact: Taqulik Hepa
Spectacled and Steller’s Eider Recovery Team
NSB-DWM contact: Todd Sformo
Western Arctic Caribou Herd Working Group
NSB-DWM contact: Brian Person
Government Agencies
The NSB DWM works with the following agencies on various projects and studies:
ADFG Alaska Department of Fish and Game
BLM Bureau of Land Management, Alaska
BOEM Bureau of Ocean and Energy Management BOEM Alaska OCS Region
BSEE Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement
NMFS National Marine Fisheries Service, Alaska Regional Office
NMML National Marine Mammal Laboratory, Alaska Fisheries Science Center/NOAA
