This document outlines priority issues as identified by the NSSI Science Technical Advisory Panel (STAP) in 2014 that are central to science based management on the North Slope of Alaska. This document draws on the perspective of NSSI membership and its STAP to identify broad subject areas that pertain to management questions and information needs over the next two decades. This document does not supplant individual agency science or management programs. Rather, the document can be used to validate many of the science directions already being addressed by individual NSSI member agencies, encourage sharing of human and monetary resources to address needs beyond an individual agency capability and help set systematic direction to collectively address science needs into the future.
