Five new sensors will enable continuous monitoring of ocean acidification in Kachemak Bay

Researchers will be able to continuously monitor ocean acidification conditions in Kachemak Bay, Alaska thanks to five new sensors to be installed in September 2017.

University of Alaska Fairbanks College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences professor Amanda Kelley and her team installed a pH sensor at the Kasitsna Bay Laboratory in March 2017, and plan to deploy sensors throughout the bay in September.

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Faculty Focus: Anne Beaudreau

It takes some people a long time to discover what they want to be when they grow up—but Anne Beaudreau knew from an early age that she wanted to be a marine biologist.

Originally from Rhode Island, Anne now lives in Juneau, where she is an associate professor of Fisheries at the UAF College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences. She was the eldest of four in a family that was very focused on the arts and education, and grew up playing the violin and studying drawing and painting.

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Spring Sikuliaq cruise launches new Bering, Chukchi research program

University of Alaska Fairbanks scientists have completed the first cruise in a new comprehensive program studying late spring dynamics in the Bering and Chukchi seas.

Researchers from the College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences spent the month of June 2017 on research vessel Sikuliaq investigating variables that influence spring productivity and food web dynamics, and studying how declining ice cover may influence Arctic ecosystems.