Recent CMI Projects

• Understanding Pacific Halibut Spatial Dynamics in the Northern Bering Sea
  PI: Andew Seitz

• 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

• Exploring radium isotopes as tracers of groundwater inputs, flushing rates, and produced water in Cook Inlet
  PI: Will Burt and Amanda Kelley

• Utilization of the under-ice habitat by Arctic cod in the western Arctic Ocean
  PI: Franz Mueter

• Ocean migration and behavior of steelhead kelts in Alaskan OCS oil and gas lease areas, examined with satellite telmetry
  PI: Andrew Seitz

• Surface current analysis of the western Beaufort and Chukchi Seas
  PI: Seth Danielson and Rachel Porter

• High-frequency characterization of the physicochemical parameters of Cook Inlet, Alaska
  PI: Amanda Kelley

• Measuring wave forces along Alaska’s coastal sea ice
  PI: Mark Johnson

• Coastal community vulnerability index and visualizations of change in Cook Inlet, Alaska [PDF]
  PI: Davin Holen

• Microbial biodegradation of Alaska North Slope crude oil in the Arctic marine environment
  PI: Mary Beth Leigh

• Nearshore food web structure on the OCS in Cook Inlet
  PIs: Katrin Iken, Brenda Konar

• Identifying sources of organic matter to benthic organisms in the Beaufort and Chukchi outer continental shelves [PDF]
  PIs: Katrin Iken, Matthew Wooller

• Development of an Autonomous Carbon Glider to Monitor Sea-air CO2 Fluxes in the Chukchi Sea.
  PI: Claudine Hauri

• Fate and Persistence of Oil Spill Response Chemicals in Arctic Seawater.
  PI: Mary Beth Leigh
  Students:  Kelly McFarlin, Ph.D  Biological Sciences  
  Matthew Perkins, PhD Environmental and Molecular Toxicology

• The Alaska Monitoring and Assessment Program survey of estuaries within the National Petroleum Reserve, Alaska.   
   PI: Douglas Dasher

• Evaluating Chukchi Sea Trace Metals and Hydrocarbons Sourced from Nearby Coastal Rivers.
  PI: Paul McCarthy
  Student: John Perreault, MS Geology

• Sensitivity to Hydrocarbons and Baselines of Exposure in Marine Birds on the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas.  
  PI: Tuula Hollmen
  Student: Riddle-Berntsen, PhD Marine Biology

• Biodegradation and Transport of Crude Oil in Sand and Gravel Beaches of Arctic Alaska.
  PI: Silke Schiewer
  Students: Anna Iverson, MS Environmental Engineering
  Priyamvada Sharma, MS Environmental Engineering

• Crude Oil Infiltration and Movement in First-year Sea ice: Impacts on Ice-associated Biota and Physical Constraints.
  PI: Eric Collins
  Students: Kyle Dilliplaine, MS Marine Biology
  Marc Oggier, PhD Geophysics

• Distribution and Abundance of Select Trace Metals in Chukchi and Beaufort Sea Ice.
  PIs: Rob Rember and Ana Aguilar-Islas

• Development of Accurate Model of the Beaufort and Chukchi Ice Drift and Dispersion for Forecasting Spill Trajectory 
  PI: Anton Kulchitsky

• Testing the Use of Unmanned Aircraft Systems for Intertidal Surveys.
  PIs: Katrin Iken and Brenda Konar

• Development and Testing of a Low-cost Satellite-tracked Ice Drifter for Arctic Alaska.
  PI:  Jeremy Kasper

• Sea Level Measurements Along the Alaskan Chukchi and Beaufort Coasts.
  PI: Stephen Okkonen

Graduate Student Projects

• Resources used by Arctic fishes along Beaufort Sea coastal lagoons
  Sydney Wilkinson (Ph.D. Marine Biology)

• Passive acoustic monitoring of killer whales (Orcinus orca) in the northern Gulf of Alaska
  Hannah Myers (M.S. Marine Biology, PhD Marine Biology, UAF, 2023)

• 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)