MMS Alaska Coastal Marine Institute
University of Alaska - Fairbanks
Following is a list of research projects that have been undertaken at this CMI. Also
included is the last name of the principal investigator and the year in which the project
was completed. If there is no date, the project is ongoing.
Testing Conceptual Models of Marine Mammal Trophic Dynamics Using Carbon and Nitrogen
Stable Isotope Ratios (Schell) - 1997
Microbial Degradation of Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Marine Sediments (Braddock) - 1997
Circulation on the North Central Chukchi Sea Shelf (Weingartner) - 1997
Winter Circulation Processes in the Northeast Chukchi Sea (Weingartner) - 1997
Interaction between Marine Humic Matter and PAH in LCI and Port Valdez, AK (Shaw) -
1998
The Alaska Frozen Tissue Collection and Associated Electronic Database: A Resource for
Marine Biotechnology (Jarrells) - 1998
Modeling the Circulation of the Chukchi Sea (Weingartner) - 1997
Physical-Biological Numerical Modeling on Alaskan Arctic Shelves (Niebauer) - 1998
Wind Field Representations and Their Effect on Shelf Circulation Models: A Case Study
in the Chukchi Sea (Proshutinsky) - 1998
Historical Changes in Heavy Metal and Hydrocarbon Contaminants on the Inner Shelf,
Beaufort Sea: Prior and Subsequent to Petroleum related Industrial Activities: Phase II
(Naidu)
An Economic Assessment of the Marine Sport
Fisheries in Lower Cook Inlet (Criddle/Hermann)
Subsistence Economies and North Slope Oil Development (Pederson/Caulfield) - 1998
The relationship of diet to habitat preferences of juvenile flatfishes in Kachemak Bay,
Alaska (Norcross) - 1999
The Alaska Frozen Tissue Collection and
Associated Electronic Database: A Resource for Marine Biotechnology (Jarrells)
Correction Factor for Ringed Seal Surveys
in Northern Alaska (Kelly/Quakenbush)
Circulation, Thermohaline Structure, and
Cross-shelf Transport in the Alaskan Beaufort Sea (Weingartner)
Feeding Ecology of Maturing Sockeye Salmon in Nearshore Waters of the Kodiak
Archipelago (Tyler/Swanton)
Kinetics and Mechanisms of Slow PAH
Desorption from Lower Cook Inlet and Beaufort Sea Sediments (Henrichs)
Beaufort Sea Nearshore Under-ice Currents: Science Analysis and Logistics (Weingartner)
- 2000
An Experimental Aproach to Investigate Seasonal Differences in the Role of Zooplankton in the Distribution of
Hydrocarbons (Shirley)
Seabird Samples as Resources for Marine
Environmental Assessment (Winker)
Beaufort and Chukchi Sea Seasonal
Variability for Two Arctic Climate States (Proshutinksy)
Petroleum Hydrocarbon Degrading Microbial
Communities in Beaufort Sea Sediments (Braddock)
Alaska Sea Ice Atlas (O.P. Smith)
A Nowcast/Forecast Model for the Beaufort
Sea Ice-ocean-oil-spill System (Wang/Jin)
Satellite Tracking of Eastern Chukchi Sea
Beluga Whales in the Beaufort Sea and Arctic Ocean (Frost/Lowry)
For more information, contact James Cimato.
