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Chukchi Offshore Monitoring in Drilling Area (COMIDA): Factors Affecting the Distribution and Relative Abundance of Endangered Whales and Other Marine Mammals in the Chukchi Sea
The Chukchi Sea shelf is a bathymetrically complex region where air-sea-ice interactions govern ecosystem structure and function. CHAOZ used a combination of autonomous moored... -
Dispersal Patterns and Summer Ocean Distribution of Adult Dolly Varden from the Wulik River, Alaska, Evaluated Using Satellite Telemetry (AK-08-12)
In northwest Alaska near the Chukchi Sea, Dolly Varden charr Salvelinus malma is highly valued as a subsistence fish and local residents harvest thousands of these fish each... -
Chukchi Sea Environmental Studies Program: Seabirds
The seabird ecology component collects data on the distribution and abundance of seabirds in the northeastern Chukchi Sea in the vicinity of several oil and gas lease areas and... -
Chukchi Sea Environmental Studies Program: Benthic
Primary production reaching the sea floor is consumed by benthic organisms (animals living in or closely associated with sediments) allowing these communities to flourish in the... -
Circulation, Cross-shelf Exchange, Sea Ice, and Marine Mammal Habitats on the Alaskan Beaufort Sea Shelf
The team proposes to carry out a joint physical/biological program to enhance the understanding of how the ABS atmosphere/ice/ocean/marine-mammal system works and what some of... -
Arctic Climate Impact Assessment
The Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA) is a study describing the ongoing climate change in the Arctic and its consequences: rising temperatures, loss of sea ice,... -
Synthesis of Arctic Research
Our goal is to increase scientific understanding of the relationships among oceanographic conditions, benthic organisms, lower trophic prey species (forage fish and... -
Chukchi Acoustics, Oceanography, and Zooplankton Study (CHAOZ)
Research focus: 1. examine the changing ecosystem of the Chukchi Sea through the use of biophysical moorings, shipboard observations and climate numerical models, and 2. link... -
Arctic Ecosystem Integrated Survey
The School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, has applied to the CCIAP for $3 million to conduct an Arctic Ecosystem Integrated Survey. The... -
Assessing ice seal abundance and sea-ice characteristics
Use of UAS for assessment of both ice seal density and sea ice conditions. Refinement of techniques for automation of detecting & counting seals in large streams of digital... -
Distributed Biological Observatory
The “Distributed Biological Observatory (DBO)” is envisioned as a change detection array along a latitudinal gradient extending from the northern Bering Sea to the Barrow Arc... -
Arctic Marine Synthesis:Atlas of the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas
This collection of 44 maps contains information on the biological and physical environment, such as sea ice dynamics, the distribution of ice-dependent species including polar... -
Arctic Change
The objective of this website is to present recent indicators that describe the present state of the Arctic climate and ecosystem in an accessible, understandable, and credible... -
Bering-Aleutian salmon international survey (BASIS): Chukchi Sea Survey
Study the effects of climate change (loss of sea ice) on the oceanography and pelagic/benthic fish communities. No survey planned in 2010; hopes for survey in 2011 -
National Aquatic Resource Surveys (NARS) - Alaska Monitoring and Assessment Program (AKMAP)
The focus of NARS in Alaska for the next 5 years lead by the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation Alaska Monitoring and Assessment Program (AKMAP) is the Arctic... -
Pacific Marine Arctic Regional Synthesis (PacMARS)
The Pacific Marine Arctic Regional Synthesis (PacMARS) is a research synthesis effort underwritten by the North Pacific Marine Research Institute to assemble by mid-year 2013... -
Terrestrial linkage to climate and metazoan communities in coastal ecosystems of the Beaufort Sea
This study targets how seasonally distinct terrestrial inputs of water and organic matter influence microbial and metazoan communities in coastal waters of the Alaskan Beaufort... -
Chukchi Sea Environmental Studies Program: Marine Mammals
The purpose of the marine mammal ecology survey is to increase current knowledge of the movements, distribution and abundance of marine mammals during the open water season...
