Katrin Iken

Katrin Iken

Interim Director, Institute of Marine Science
Interim Director, Coastal Marine Institute
Professor

Marine Biology
Marine Invertebrates
Marine Plants
Scientific Diving

College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences
2150 Koyukuk Drive
227 O'Neill Building
Fairbanks, AK 99775-7220
907-474-5192
907-474-7204 (fax)
kbiken@alaska.edu

 
Curriculum Vitae

 

Advising:

 

Publications

Schollmeier, T., A.C.M. Oliveira, M.J. Wooller, and K. Iken. (2017). "Tracing sea ice algae into various benthic feeding types on the Chukchi Sea shelf". Polar Biology. 41(2):207–224.
doi: http://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-017-2182-4

Divine, L.M., K. Iken, and B.A. Bluhm. (2015). "Regional benthic food web structure on the Alaska Beaufort Sea shelf". Marine Ecology Progress Series. 531:15–32.
doi: https://doi.org/10.3354/meps11340

Tu, K.L., Blanchard, A.L., Iken, K. Horstmann-Dehn, L. (2015). "Small-scale spatial variability in benthic food webs in the northeastern Chukchi Sea". Marine Ecology Progress Series. 528:19-37.
doi: 10.3354/meps11216

Wang, S.W., S.M Budge, K. Iken, R.R. Gradinger, A.M. Springer, and M.J. Wooller . (2015). Importance of sympagic production to Bering Sea zooplankton as revealed from fatty acid-carbon stable isotope analyses". Marine Ecology Progress Series. 518:31–50.
doi: https://doi.org/10.3354/meps11076

K. Iken, B. Bluhm and J. S¿reide. (2013). Arctic benthic communities Arctic Report Card Update for 2013.
doi: http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/reportcard/benthic_communities.html

M. Murphy and K. Iken. (2013). "Larval brachyuran crab timing and distribution in relation to water properties and flow in a high-latitude estuary". Estuaries and Coasts.
doi: 10.1007/s12237?013?9668?2 doi: 10.1007/s12237?013?9668?2

P. Miloslavich, J. Cruz-Motta, E. Klein, K. Iken, V. Weinberger, B. Konar, T. Trott, G. Pohle, G. Bigatti, L. Benedetti-Cecchi, Y. Shirayama, A. Mead, G. Palomo, M. Ortiz, J. Gobin, A. Sardi, J. D’az, A. Knowlton, M. Wong and A. Peralta. (2013). "Large-scale spatial distribution patterns of gastropod assemblages in rocky shores". PLoS ONE. 8(8):e71396.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0071396

S. W. Wang, S. M. Budge, R. R. Gradinger, K. Iken and M. J. Wooller. (2013). "Fatty acid and stable isotope characteristics of sea ice and pelagic particulate organic matter in the Bering Sea: tools for estimating sea ice algal contribution to Arctic food web production". Oecologia. :14-Jan.
doi: 10.1007/s00442-013-2832-3 

A. Dubois and K. Iken. (2012). "Seasonal variation in kelp phlorotannins in relation to grazer abundance and environmental variables in the Alaskan sublittoral zone". Algae. 27: 9-19.

M. Deiman, K. Iken and B. Konar. (2012)." Susceptibility of Nereocystis luetkeana (Laminariales, Ochrophyta) and Eualaria fistulosa (Laminariales, Ochrophyta) spores to sedimentation". Algae. 27:115-123.

Moran, S.B., M.W. Lomas, R.P. Kelly, K. Iken, R. Gradinger and J.T. Mathis. (2012). "Seasonal succession of net primary productivity, particulate organic carbon export, and autotrophic community composition in the eastern Bering Sea". Deep-Sea Research II. 65-70:84-97.
doi: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2012.02.011

Specialties

  • Trophic interactions and food web analysis
  • Benthic diversity and communities
  • Stable isotope analysis
  • Phycology and invertebrate ecology
  • Shallow water ecology and deep-sea biology
  • Polar marine biology

 

Research Overview

My research is mainly centered around trophic interactions between organisms. This involves dietary composition, feeding habits and consumption rates of invertebrates, macroalgal-herbivore interactions, stable isotope analysis of food web structures, etc. It also involves chemical defenses of macroalgae and invertebrates against grazers and predators. I am generally interested in shallow water community diversity, dynamics and ecology, especially in both polar regions, and in deep-sea communities. Most of my shallow water work uses scientific diving as a research tool.

 

Current Research Projects