Coastal and offshore oil and gas development: Balancing competing interests through enhancing information and synthesis

Activities associated with oil and gas development in coastal and offshore settings are reflective of and impacted by the suite of major interconnected transformations that are underway in the North.  In the broadest sense this theme aims to help researchers, educators and students at the University of Alaska to develop networks and partnerships extending from the local to the global level with different stakeholders who are in need of information for planning and decision-making in the context of coastal and offshore oil and gas development. This project begins a process with the ultimate goal of translating such data and observations into information or knowledge that helps planners, stakeholders and the general public address the challenges and take advantage of the opportunities implicit in the change underway in the North.