Project Information

Title: SEA: Sound Ecosystem Assessment 98320

Project Year and Number: 1998: 98320

Other Fiscal Years and Numbers for this Project: 2002: 02320, 2000: 00320-BAA, 1999: 99320-CLO, 1997: 97320, 1996: 96320, 1995: 95320, 1994: 94320

Principal Investigator (PI): Ted Cooney (University of Alaska Fairbanks)

Managing Agency: ADFG

Assisting Personnel: None

Research Location: Prince William Sound

Restoration Category: Research

Injured Resources Addressed: Pacific Herring, Pink Salmon

Abstract: This project is an integrated, multi-component study of processes influencing the annual survival of juvenile pink salmon and herring rearing in Prince William Sound. An emerging understanding of mechanisms of loss at this life stage is being captured by linked numerical simulations of ocean state, plankton dynamics, fish energetics, and prey/predator relationships. FY 98 will be the final fully-funded year of SEA, a period of reduced field work but accelerated data analysis and application of results to management models.


Proposal: Not Available

Reports:
Final Report: View (33,471 KB)

Publications from this Project: Bernatowicz, J. A.; Schempf, P. F., and Bowman, T. D. Bald eagle productivity in south-central Alaska in 1989 and 1990 after the Exxon Valdez oil spill. in: Rice, S. D.; Spies, R. B.; Wolfe, D. A., and Wright, B. A., eds. Proceedings of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Symposium. Bethesda, MD: American Fisheries Society; 1996; pp. 785-797.