North Pacific Wildlife Consulting, a
Limited Liability Company of the state of Alaska, is dedicated
to high quality scientific investigations of marine mammals,
marine birds, and marine fishes that inhabit the waters and
coastal areas of the North Pacific Ocean. Through international
cooperation of nations comprising the North Pacific Rim, North
Pacific Wildlife Consulting LLC conducts research and passes
funds from funding agencies to investigators to carry out field
research in waters of Russia, Japan and the Unites States.
North Pacific
Wildlife Consulting LLC (NPWC) is a Limited Liability Company
formed in Anchorage, Alaska. The company consists of three Managing
Members, a US citizen, Don Calkins from Seward Alaska and two
Russian citizens working under H-1B visas in the United States,
Dr. Vladimir Burkanov from Petropavlovsk Kamchatsky and Seattle
Washington and Dr. Alexander Burdin from Petropavlovsk Kamchatsky
and Seward Alaska. The company was formed to fulfill a need the
members perceived in providing funding to conduct research in
the Russian Far East. The service we provide allows funding agencies
and entities to maximize their opportunities to conducted activities
in Russian waters. We conduct research ourselves or contract
agencies or individuals in Russia to participate or conduct research.
We work through grants to institutions in Russia to provide logistics
support for our research as well as that of others interested
in funding work in the Russia Far East. The majority of our work
is funded from grants from agencies such as the National Marine
Fisheries Service, The Alaska SeaLife Center, the United States
Fish and Wildlife Service, The International Whaling Commission,
and the U.S. Marine Mammal Commission.
Our projects through August 2004 have involved grants to study
Steller sea lions, western gray whales, Killer whales, sea otters
and humpback whales in Russian Far Eastern Waters. We also provide
support to conduct studies on beluga whales and we support research
on northern fur seals and Largha seals. In addition to these
projects the members are carrying out, we are contracting for
translations of Russian literature into English, and have coordinated
funding for the Russian Holarctic Marine Mammal Conferences.
NPWC has also donated funds to the Second Holarctic Conference
on Marine Mammals held at Lake Baikal in Russia in 2003 and has
donated to the American Cancer Society through participating
in Sponsorship of an Alaska SeaLife Center team in the Polar
Bear Jump at Seward, Alaska in January, 2004.
VLADIMIR BURKANOV
DON CALKINS
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