NE Chukchi Sea AKMAP

Project Description

The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation (ADEC) and University of Alaska Fairbanks Institute of Marine Science (IMS) conducted an Alaska Monitoring and Assessment Program (AKMAP) survey of the Northeastern Chukchi Sea nearshore corridor in 2010, 2011 and 2012. The surveyed region lies within a 25- to 50-mile exclusion corridor between the nearshore (~10-50 m depth) and the Bureau of Ocean Environmental Management (BOEM) oil/gas lease Sale #193. A spatial probabilistic survey design, developed under the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program was used to assess the ecological status of this area. Over the summers of 2010 and 2011 60 stations were surveyed as part of the probabilistic survey. Additional targeted stations were sampled; 1 in 2010; 3 in 2011; and 11 in 2012.

Project Funding

Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation
Amount: $1,911,225
Start Date: 2010-01-00
End Date: 2015-06-00

Publications and products

Lovvorn JR, AR Rocha, SC Jewett, D Dasher, S Oppel, & AN Powell. (2015). "Limits to benthic feeding by eiders in a critical Arctic migration corridor due to localized prey and changing sea ice". Progress in Oceanography. 136-162-174

Research Team

Douglas Dasher

Principal Investigator

Affiliate Faculty

dhdasher@alaska.edu | 907-347-7779

Specialties:

Radioecology studies.
Marine and freshwater aquatic resource surveys.
Contaminant fate and transport.
Sediment trace metals and anthropogenic source contribution.
Development of UAF ESTES-SFOS gamma spectroscopy laboratory for environmental radioactivity studies