Sarah Mincks

• Sarah L. Mincks publications (Google Scholar)

• Zoe Bolling
• Elijah Colliver
• Jeanette Gann
• Akiva Gebler
• Danielle Lampe

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• Benthic ecology
• Polar marine ecosystems
• Benthic-pelagic coupling
• Sediment biogeochemistry
• Carbon cycling
• Ecology of marine sediments

My research touches on a range of topics in benthic ecology and biogeochemistry, focusing on high-
latitude ecosystems. I am interested in coupling between pelagic and benthic processes, including how
patterns in primary production impact benthic communities. My work examines how the quantity and
quality of different sources of primary production available to marine food webs vary in space and time,
and traces the fate of primary production in benthic food webs in both nearshore and continental shelf
systems. This work has implications for understanding marine carbon cycling, impacts of mariculture
activities on coastal ecosystems, and population dynamics of fishery and subsistence-harvested species
that ultimately depend on benthic food resources. Our lab group conducts offshore field work from
oceanographic research vessels as well as in the nearshore Alaskan environment, studying benthic
organisms ranging from microbes to macroalgae to marine invertebrates. We have expertise in meio-
and macrofaunal invertebrates, and apply a variety of analytical approaches in our work including
biomarkers (fatty acids, stable isotopes) and molecular tools.

• StratiFIED-NBS: Stratification and Fronts Influencing Ecosystem Dynamics in the Northern Bering Sea (NPRB Northern Bering Sea Integrated Ecosystem Research Program)
• Identifying ecotype-specific performance of Alaska's farmed kelp in response to variation in temperature and light
• Top-to-Bottom assessment of early life snow crab ecology in a melting northern Bering Sea
• Estimating dissolved organic carbon release by farmed kelp

• MSL 212 Introduction to Marine Science
• MSL 320 Aquatic Ecology
• MSL 412 / 612 Early Life Histories of Marine Invertebrates
• MSL 654 Benthic Ecology

CFOS Dean's Recognition Award: Outstanding Advisor, 2020