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October 28, 2022
Environmental anthropology, human dimensions of fishery systems, local and traditional ecological knowledge. Social and cultural aspects of fishery systems.
October 28, 2022
³ÉÈËӰƬ-region oceanography. The functioning of continental shelf dynamics and ecosystems. Maintaining long-term ocean observation programs that document the manifestation and effects of climate change. Studying how variations in temperature, salinity and ocean currents exert control over ecosystem structure and functioning.
October 28, 2022
Invertebrates, aquaculture, crab fisheries management. Sustainably managing living marine resources. Fishery management, specifically Dungeness crab, snow crab and king crab.
October 28, 2022
Lower trophic level marine ecosystem modeling, individual (agent) based modeling of plankton and juvenile fish. Using computational approaches to explore marine ecosystem dynamics in high latitude seas.
October 28, 2022
Claudine Hauri is an expert biological and chemical oceanography, carbon cycle, climate change, biogeochemistry, marine ecology, ocean acidification, and oceanography.
October 28, 2022
Donna Hauser is an expert in marine ecology focusing on marine mammals and other species in changing Arctic and temperate oceans. Her research interests include supporting community-based observing of coastal change.
October 28, 2022
Phytoplankton ecology, climate change, environmental genomics
October 28, 2022
Zooplankton ecology, climate change, Arctic, Gulf of ³ÉÈËӰƬ. Composition, production and energy flow of marine pelagic ecosystems using a combination of classical and modern tools, particularly in polar and sub-polar ecosystems.
October 28, 2022
Food web ecology, marine biodiversity. Work in the Arctic on seafloor (benthic) communities. Food web relationships, community structure and biodiversity.
October 28, 2022
Meibing Jin is an expert in modeling of ecosystem in ocean and sea ice, and their response to climate changes. His research focuses on modeling of ocean and sea ice dynamics, physical oceanography and marine ecosystem in Polar oceans.
October 28, 2022
Physical oceanography, Arctic oceanography, sea-ice modeling, sea-ice seasonal cycle. Researching Arctic climate with a focus on the annual cycle of sea ice.
October 28, 2022
Comparative physiology, ocean change biology, ocean acidification. Organism-environment interactions in near-shore environments, with the goal of understanding how this over-arching element will contribute to the outcome of species response to global environmental change, such as ocean acidification, increased ocean temperature and deoxygenation.
October 28, 2022
Kelp forest ecology, marine biodiversity, benthic community structure and function in coastal waters.
October 28, 2022
Fish biology, genetics and biodiversity. Studies fish diversity and evolution using evidence from anatomy and genetics to understand the biological processes that shape the distribution and variability of fish populations both living and in the past.
October 28, 2022
Sea ice geophysics, with research interests that encompass changes in the Arctic sea ice cover, coastal dynamics, remote sensing of ice, ice-ocean interaction, historic sea ice records and the relationship between humans and sea ice.
October 28, 2022
Fish ecology and evolution, salmon ocean ecology, population genetics. Genetic, life-history, growth and morphological variation in salmon and their consequences for management and conservation.
October 28, 2022
Soft-sediment (benthic) seafloor communities, primarily in the polar regions. Invertebrate and microbial communities and the role of these communities in the functioning of polar ecosystems.
October 28, 2022
Chemical oceanography, ocean economy, ocean policy. The application of uranium-series and artificial radionuclides as tracers of marine geochemical processes.
October 28, 2022
Jeffrey Muehlbauer studies rivers and aquatic food webs. His research interests lie primarily in understanding how habitat variables related to hydrology and geomorphology affect the distribution and composition of species, particularly aquatic insects.
October 28, 2022
Fisheries oceanography, climate change, fishery management, marine ecology, statistics. Use of statistical modeling to understand the impacts of environmental variability and climate change on marine fish populations.
October 28, 2022
Merging observational data, comprehensive statistical analysis and numerical modeling to achieve a better understanding of the Arctic Ocean state.
October 28, 2022
Igor Polyakov is an expert in oceanography, multidecadal variability, climate change, and the Arctic.
October 28, 2022
Hisatomo Waga is an expert in satellite oceanography. His research focuses particularly on the impacts of sea ice dynamics on phytoplankton communities in the Arctic Ocean.
October 28, 2022
John Walsh is an expert in Arctic climate, weather, climate change adaptation and sea ice. He specializes in climate modeling, addressing regional vulnerabilities, downscaling models and more.
October 28, 2022
Laura Whitmore is a chemical oceanographer – her work traces elements through the marine system to better understand water movement. She investigates elemental cycles to understand how biological communities, turbulence, erosion, and currents influence nutrients and other elements.
October 28, 2022
Wooller is an interdisciplinary scientist applying stable isotope techniques to understand the influence of changing environmental conditions on past and present ecosystems.
November 08, 2022
Fish physiology and biochemistry, mitochondrial biology, metabolic remodeling in fishes at cold temperature and adaptations of Antarctic fishes to cold temperature. O’Brien’s research is aimed at understanding how fish maintain energy production at cold temperatures.
October 31, 2023
Allison has a broad background in ecology and resource management, with a research portfolio focused on the linked terrestrial and marine ecosystems of the northeast Pacific coastal temperate rain forest. Her interests include hydrologically mediated materials flux across the coastal margin and associated influences on marine food webs; ocean acidification; and forest ecology and management. Integral to this work is understanding the impact of climate change on ecosystem processes and services.
October 31, 2023
Mariculture specialist working with community members, industry, ³ÉÈËӰƬ Native tribes and corporations, seafood processors, community leaders and regulators to promote marine aquaculture in ³ÉÈËӰƬ.
November 09, 2023
Science and policy in fisheries, marine mammal conservation, marine resource subsistence and Arctic governance.
November 09, 2023
Fisheries biologist studying the effects of environmental change on fish populations and aquatic food webs. His research uses field, lab, experimental and quantitative approaches to tackle problems with implications for natural resource management, conservation and habitat restoration. Recent research focuses on how ³ÉÈËӰƬn salmon are responding to a changing environment.