Project Information

Title: Long term monitoring of oceanographic conditions in Prince William Sound 15120114-E

Project Year and Number: 2015: 15120114-E

Other Fiscal Years and Numbers for this Project: 2024: 24120114-G , 2023: 23120114-G , 2022: 22120114-G , 2021: 21120114-G, 2020: 20120114-G, 2019: 19120114-G, 2018: 18120114-G, 2017: 17120114-G, 2016: 16120114-E, 2014: 14120114-E, 2013: 13120114-E, 2012: 12120114-E

Principal Investigator (PI): Robert Campbell

Assisting Personnel: None

Project Website: https://gulfwatchalaska.org/monitoring/environmental-drivers/oceanographic-conditions-in-prince-william-sound/

Research Location: Prince William Sound

Restoration Category: Monitoring

Injured Resources Addressed: Not Specified

Abstract:

This project is a component of the integrated Long-term Monitoring of Marine Conditions and Injured Resources and Services submitted by McCammon et. al. This project is intended to provide physical and biological measurements that may be used to assess bottom-up impacts on the marine ecosystems of Prince William Sound. Specifically, it is proposed to deploy an autonomous profiling mooring in central Prince William Sound that will provide high frequency (~daily) depth-specific measurements of physical (temperature, salinity, turbidity), biogeochemical (nitrate, phosphate and silicate) and biological (Chlorophyll-a concentration) parameters, over the course of the growing season (focused on the vernal and autumn blooms). Several regular vessel surveys are also proposed to provide ground-truth data for the mooring, and to attempt to capture some of the spatial variability in PWS. As well as the mooring site, the surveys will visit all four of the SEA bays to maintain ongoing EVOSTC funded time series measurements at those sites and to support proposed herring research (Pegau et. al). The major entrances (Hinchinbrook Entrance and Montague Strait) will also be visited. The surveys will make the same suite of measurements as the mooring, and will also collect water and plankton samples. This project will also link significantly with the herring research efforts proposed by Pegau et al.


Proposal: View (466 KB)

Reports:
Annual Report FY15: View (3,583 KB)
Final Report: See Project 16120114-E

Publications from this Project: None Available