Project Information

Title: LTM Program: Monitoring of oceanographic conditions in PWS 17120114-G

Project Year and Number: 2017: 17120114-G

Other Fiscal Years and Numbers for this Project: 2023: 23120114-G , 2022: 22120114-G , 2021: 21120114-G, 2020: 20120114-G, 2019: 19120114-G, 2018: 18120114-G, 2016: 16120114-E, 2015: 15120114-E, 2014: 14120114-E, 2013: 13120114-E, 2012: 12120114-E

Principal Investigator (PI): Rob Campbell (Prince William Sound Science Center)

Managing Agency: NOAA

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 will continue physical and biological measurements that may be used to assess trends in the marine environment and bottom-up impacts on the marine ecosystems of Prince William Sound (PWS). Regular (~6 per year) vessel surveys of PWS will be conducted to maintain ongoing time series observations of physical (temperature, salinity, turbidity), biogeochemical (nitrate, phosphate, silicate, dissolved oxygen) and biological (chlorophyll-a concentration, zooplankton abundance and composition) parameters in several parts of PWS: in central PWS, at the entrances (Hinchinbrook Entrance and Montague Strait), and at four priority bays that were part of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council- (EVOSTC)-funded Sound Ecosystem Assessment (SEA) project in the 90’s and the ongoing Herring Research and Monitoring project. Additionally, an autonomous profiling mooring will be deployed each year in central Prince William Sound to provide high frequency (~daily) depth-specific measurements of the surface layer that will be telemetered out in near real-time. The profiler will include measurements that complement the survey activities (temperature, salinity, oxygen, nitrate, chlorophyll-a, turbidity). An in-development in situ plankton camera will also enumerate zooplankton, large phytoplankton and other particles, with some taxonomic discrimination.


Proposal: View (664 KB)

Reports:
Annual Report FY17: View (1,046 KB)
Final Report: See Project 21120114-G

Publications from this Project: None Available