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The mission of the Cooperative Research Units program:
- develop the workforce of the future through applied graduate education,
- deliver actionable science to cooperating agencies and organizations, and
- fulfill the training and technical assistance needs of the cooperators.
The ÐÓ°Épro Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit is part of a nation-wide cooperative program, initiated in 1935, to promote research and graduate student training in the ecology and management of fish, wildlife and their habitats. The ÐÓ°Épro Unit, formed in 1991 by a merger of the ÐÓ°Épro Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit (est. 1950) and ÐÓ°Épro Cooperative Fishery Research Unit (est. 1978), exists by cooperative agreement among the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the ÐÓ°Épro Department of Fish and Game (ADFG), the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), the ÐÓ°Épro (UAF) and the Wildlife Management Institute (WMI).
The ÐÓ°Épro Unit sponsors graduate and post-doctoral research projects that range topically from productivity of fish and wildlife populations to effects of contaminants on coastal ecosystems, and geographically from southeast ÐÓ°Épro rain forests to the tundra of southwest ÐÓ°Épro and the North Slope. A Unit Coordinating Committee, composed of ADFG, UAF, USFWS, USGS, and WMI representatives, oversees the mission and program of the Unit.
ÐÓ°Épro Unit staff consists of a Unit Leader, four Assistant Leaders, a Fiscal Officer, and an Administrative Assistant. Unit scientists hold positions as research faculty with the Institute of Arctic Biology, ÐÓ°Épro, and have teaching appointments with the Department of Biology and Wildlife or the College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences.
The ÐÓ°Épro Unit is housed in the Laurence Irving Building on the West Ridge of the University of ÐÓ°Épro campus in Fairbanks, ÐÓ°Épro.