Alexei Pinchuk

• CV

• Wesley Strasburger
• Alex Knobloch

Pinchuk, A.I., S.D. Batten, and W.W. Strasburger. 2021. Doliolid (Tunicata, Thaliacea) blooms in the southeastern Gulf of Alaska as a result of the recent marine heat wave of 2014–2016. Frontiers in Marine Science 8:625486. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.625486

Tempestini, A., A.I. Pinchuk, and F. Dufresne. 2020. Spatial genetic structure in Themisto libellula (Amphipoda: Hyperiidae) from the coastal Gulf of Alaska, Bering and Chukchi seas. Polar Biology 43:1795–1804. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-020-02745-9

Copeman, L., M. Spencer, R. Heintz, J. Vollenweider, A. Sremba, T. Helser, L. Logerwell, L. Sousa, S. Danielson, A.I. Pinchuk, and B. Laurel. 2020. Ontogenetic patterns in lipid and fatty acid biomarkers of juvenile polar cod (Boreogadus saida) and saffron cod (Eleginus gracilis) from across the Alaska Arctic. Polar Biology 43:1121-1140. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-020-02648-9

Eisner, L.B., A.I. Pinchuk D.G. Kimmel, K.L. Mier, C. Harpold, and E.C. Siddon. 2018. Seasonal, interannual, and spatial patterns of community composition over the eastern Bering Sea shelf in cold years. Part I: zooplankton. ICES Journal of Marine Science 75(1): 72–86. https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsx156

Pinchuk, A.I., and L.B. Eisner. 2017. Spatial heterogeneity in zooplankton summer distribution in the eastern Chukchi Sea in 2012–2013 as a result of large-scale interactions of water masses. Deep Sea Research II 135:27–39. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2016.11.003

Pinchuk, A.I., H.R. Harvey, and G.L. Eckert. 2016. Development of biochemical measures of age in the Alaskan red king crab Paralithodes camtschaticus (Anomura): Validation, refinement and initial assessment. Fisheries Research 183:92–98. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2016.05.019

Hunt, G.L. Jr., P.H. Ressler, G.A. Gibson, A. De Robertis, K. Aydin, M.F. Sigler, I. Ortiz, E.J. Lessard, B.C. Williams, A.I. Pinchuk, and T. Buckley. 2016. Euphausiids in the eastern Bering Sea: A synthesis of recent studies of euphausiid production, consumption and population control. Deep Sea Research II 134:204–222. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2015.10.007

• zooplankton taxonomy/ecology/physiology
• pelagic ecosystems
• dynamics of coastal ocean

Dr. Pinchuk’s research has been focused on zooplankton distribution and production in relation to physical properties of the environment as well as their role in the pelagic trophic structure. He has been combining field and laboratory approaches to study interannual and seasonal variability in distribution, growth and reproduction of euphausiids (krill) from the northern Gulf of Alaska as part of the US GLOBEC monitoring program. He has been involved with testing state-of-the-art marine sensors as part of Alliance of Coastal Technologies (ACT), a NOAA funded project. Other research includes a number of collaborative oceanographic projects in the southeastern Bering Sea and northern Gulf of Alaska, studying various aspects of zooplankton ecology in relation to physical and biological variability in the system at variety of temporal and spatial scales.

• Assessment of mesoplankton population and biomass in the eastern Bering Sea (NSF)
• Impact of sea ice on bottom-up and top-down controls of crustacean zooplankton and the meditation of carbon and energy flow in the eastern Bering Sea (NSF)
• Integration and modeling of spatial-temporal variation in growth and vital rates for euphausiids in the eastern Bering Sea – implications for demographic structure (NSF)
• Collaborative research: linking sea-ice retreat to plankton community structure and function in the eastern Bering Sea: data synthesis, biophysical modelling and multi-decadal projection (NSF)
• Arctic ecosystem integrated survey (CIAP)
• Biological communities in the Chukchi Sea (BOEM)
• Development of Biochemical Measures of Age in the Alaskan Red King Crab: Validation, Refinement and Initial Assessment (NPRB)

• Alaska SeaLife Center
• North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES)
• Alliance for Coastal Technologies
• American Geophysical Union (AGU)