Project Information

Title: Coordinating Volunteer Vessels of Opportunity to Collect Oceanographic Data in Kachemak Bay and Lower Cook Inlet 02671

Project Year and Number: 2002: 02671

Other Fiscal Years and Numbers for this Project: None

Principal Investigator (PI): Diana Stram

Managing Agency: ADFG

Assisting Personnel: Dale Banks, Joel Cooper, Carl Schoch

Research Location: Kachemak Bay, Lower Cook Inlet

Restoration Category: Research

Injured Resources Addressed: Not Specified

Abstract: Cook Inlet Keeper and the Kachemak Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve (NERR) will organize a network database of local community volunteers for the purpose of collecting oceanographic data from regional ships of opportunity. An outreach program will be undertaken to identify and construct a database of private and commercial vessels making frequent trips in the Kachemak Bay, lower Cook Inlet, and Gulf of Alaska regions. A thermosalinograph, installed on a vessel at the Kachemak Bay NERR, will be used to clarify regions for future data collection. These data will also be correlated with existing stationary sensors and volunteer-monitoring projects to expand spatial and temporal knowledge of water quality and mixing patterns and their relationship to the dispersal of larvae and pollutants in the region.


Proposal: View (287 KB)

Reports:
Final Report: View (2,723 KB)

Publications from this Project: None Available