Professor

University affiliation

• College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences
• University of Alaska Fairbanks (Fairbanks)

Contact information

• Email: rrhopcroft@alaska.edu
• Phone: (907) 474-7842

Media contact

Jeff Richardson

• Phone: (907) 474-5350
• Email: jarichardson6@alaska.edu

Areas of expertise

• Ecology
• Fisheries and ocean science

Research interests/biography

Zooplankton ecology, climate change, Arctic, Gulf of Alaska. Composition, production and energy flow of marine pelagic ecosystems using a combination of classical and modern tools, particularly in polar and subpolar ecosystems. Development of better methods of assessing the biomass and production of planktonic organisms, and the modeling of these communities.