Project Information

Title: SEA: Isotope Tracers - Food Web Dependencies in PWS (Fish, Marine Mammals, and Birds) 95320-I

Project Year and Number: 1995: 95320-I

Other Fiscal Years and Numbers for this Project: 1998: 98320-I, 1997: 97320-I, 1996: 96320-I, 1995: 95320-I2, 1994: 94320-I

Principal Investigator (PI): Donald Schell (University of Alaska Fairbanks)

Managing Agency: ADFG

Assisting Personnel: None

Research Location: PWS/KAP

Restoration Category: Research

Injured Resources Addressed: Pacific Herring, Pink Salmon

Abstract: This project would continue work initiated in FY 94 as part of the PWS System Investigation (Project 94320). This particular sub-project would analyze tissue samples and use shifts in stable isotope ratios that occur with increasing trophic levels to describe food sources and predation relationships among species in PWS. This project would integrate with virtually all of the other PWS System Investigation sub-projects.


Proposal: Not Available

Reports:
Annual Report FY95: View (1,146 KB)
Final Report: See Project 98320-I

Publications from this Project: None Available

Datasets:
EVOSTC Data Archive: This project measures stable isotopes of carbon and nitrogen in macro-zooplankton and fishes from Prince William Sound and north Gulf of Alaska in order to reveal primary production sources in an their food. Biologic samples are taken at SEA stations located around the Sound. Published articles Availability: All SEAFOOD project data will be integrated into project SEA-DATA. Available to collaborating researchers and managers and through the scheduled release of the SEA database.