Project Information

Title: Surveys to Monitor Marine Bird Abundance in PWS During Winter and Summer 1998 98159

Project Year and Number: 1998: 98159

Other Fiscal Years and Numbers for this Project: 2010: 10100751, 2008: 080751, 2007: 070751, 2005: 050751, 2004: 040159, 2002: 02159, 2001: 01159, 2000: 00159, 1999: 99159, 1997: 97159-CLO, 1996: 96159, 1994: 94159, 1993: 93045

Principal Investigator (PI): Brian Lance (US Fish & Wildlife Service)

Managing Agency: USGS

Assisting Personnel: None

Research Location: Prince William Sound

Restoration Category: Monitoring

Injured Resources Addressed: Bald Eagles, Black Oystercatchers, Common Loons, Common Murres, Cormorants, Harlequin Ducks, Kittlitz's Murrelets, Marbled Murrelets, Pigeon Guillemot, Sea Otters

Abstract: This project will conduct small boat surveys to monitor abundance of marine birds and sea otters in Prince William Sound during March and July 1998. Five previous surveys have monitored population trends for more than 65 bird and 8 marine mammal species in the sound. Data collected in 1998 will be used to continue to examine trends from summer 1989-98 and from winter 1990-98 by determining whether populations in the oiled zone changed at the same rate as those in the unoiled zone. Overall population trends for the sound from 1989-98 will also be examined. In addition to monitoring the status of injured species, continued monitoring will confirm possible oil spill effects on species not previously considered injured.


Proposal: Not Available

Reports:
Annual Report FY98: View (3,342 KB)
Final Report: See Project 050751

Publications from this Project: None Available