Current CMI Projects
Satellite ocean color remote sensing of water mass dynamics in Cook Inlet
PI: Hisatoma Waga
From Beaufort to Bering Seas: Analyzing relationships of communication and risk-sharing
in anticipation of increased hydrocarbon traffic off Alaska’s northern coasts
PI: Amy Lovecraft
Understanding Pacific Halibut Spatial Dynamics in the Northern Bering Sea
PI: Andew Seitz
Harnessing the power of eDNA as a real-time assessment tool of nearshore Arctic marine
communities
PI: Jessica Glass
Delineating species and stock boundaries in the Arctic-Bering cisco species pair
PI: Andres Lopez
Biological effects of Cook Inlet crude oil degradation products and suspect screening
of oxidized PAHs
PI: Patrick Tomco
Arctic Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Structure Data Analysis and Synthesis
PI: Seth Danielson
Are expanding Pink Salmon populations in the Arctic produced from regional watersheds?
PI: Kristen Gorman
Investigating the impacts of oil exposure and changing snow cover on sea ice microbial
communities
PI: Gwenn Hennon
Hydrocarbon Oxidation Products in Cook Inlet: Formation and Bioaccumulation in Mussels
PI: Patrick Tomco
Kelp restoration in the Boulder Patch
PI: Katrin Iken
Feasibility study for a novel instrumental technique to characterize subsurface currents
and hydrography within the Alaska OCS
PI: Kay McMonigal
Graduate Student Projects
Resources use by Arctic fishes along Beaufort Sea coastal lagoons
Sydney Wilkinson (Ph.D. Marine Biology)
Passive acoustic monitoring of killer whates (Orcinus orca) in the northern Gulf of Alaska
Hannah Myers (M.S. Marine Biology)
Comparison of Cook Inlet beluga acoustic presence in critical foraging habitat between
years of reduced commercial salmon fishing zones
Sonia Kumar(M.S. Marine Biology)