Project Information

Title: Toward Long-Term Oceanographic Monitoring of the GOA Ecosystem 030340

Project Year and Number: 2003: 030340

Other Fiscal Years and Numbers for this Project: 2010: 10100340, 2007: 070340, 2004: 040340, 2002: 02340, 2001: 01340, 2000: 00340, 1999: 99340, 1998: 98340

Principal Investigator (PI): Tom Weingartner (University of Alaska Fairbanks)

Managing Agency: ADFG

Assisting Personnel: None

Project Website: http://www.ims.uaf.edu/gak1/

Research Location: Resurrection Bay, Gulf of Alaska Shelf

Restoration Category: Monitoring

Injured Resources Addressed: Not Specified

Abstract: Interannual variations in temperature and salinity on the northern Gulf of Alaska shelf reflect environmental changes that affect this marine ecosystem. Quantifying and understanding this variability require long time series such as the 32-year record at hydrographic station GAK1 near Seward. This project continues this time series, quantifies the synoptic, seasonal, and interannual variability, and seeks to understand the reasons for this variability. It will also begin to examine interannual variations in near-surface stratification and the timing of the spring bloom on the inner Gulf of Alaska shelf. The data will be used to predict the baroclinic component of the mass and freshwater transport variability in the Alaska Coastal Current in the northern gulf.


Proposal: View (714 KB)

Reports:
Final Report: See Project 10100340

Publications from this Project: None Available