Phytoplankton and nutrition: Evaluating effects of phytoplankton assemblage composition on food quality for consumers 

• Sarah Mincks

Jeanette Gann is an oceanographer with the Ecosystem Monitoring and Assessment (EMA) program at NOAA in Juneau, Alaska. She participates in at-sea surveys throughout Alaska, where she focuses on phytoplankton community changes in the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska, including harmful algal blooms (HABs). The focus of her PhD involves investigating nutritional qualities of varying phytoplankton communities through fatty acids. A large piece of her work is looking at how phytoplankton taxa relate to zooplankton and young fish in general, and age-0 walleye pollock in particular. Another piece involves working on a genomics protocol to assess diatom species composition in Alaskan waters with more efficiency than current microscopy techniques are able to accomplish. Additionally, Jeanette is a member of PICES (North Pacific Marine Science Organization) where she serves as chair of the Technical Committee on Data Exchange (TCODE), and serves on the Science Board.

Lead Author
Gann, J.C., L.B. Eisner, S. Porter, J.T. Watson, K.D. Cieciel, C.W. Mordy, E.M. Yasumiishi, P.J. Stabeno, C. Ladd, R.A. Heintz, and E.V. Farley. 2015. Possible mechanism linking ocean conditions to low body weight and poor recruitment of age-0 walleye pollock (Gadus chalcogrammus) in the southeast Bering Sea during 2007. Deep Sea Research II: Topical Studies in Oceanography 134:115–127. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2015.07.010

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Coauthor
Lomas, M.W., L.B. Eisner, J. Gann, S.E. Baer, C.W. Mordy, and P.J. Stabeno. 2020. Time-series of direct primary production and phytoplankton biomass in the southeastern Bering Sea: responses to cold and warm stanzas. Marine Ecology Progress Series 642:39–54. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps13317

Liu, C.L., L. Zhai, S.I. Zeeman, L.B. Eisner, J.C. Gann, C.W. Mordy, S.B. Moran, and M.W. Lomas. 2016. Seasonal and geographic variations in modeled primary production and phytoplankton losses from the mixed layer between warm and cold years on the eastern Bering Sea shelf. Deep Sea Research II: Topical Studies in Oceanography 134:141–156. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2016.07.008

Murphy, J.M., K.G. Howard, J.C. Gann, K. Cieciel, W.D. Templin, and C.M. Guthrie III. 2016. Juvenile Chinook Salmon abundance in the northern Bering Sea: Implications for future returns and fisheries in the Yukon River. Deep Sea Research II: Topical Studies in Oceanography 135:156–167. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2016.06.002

Eisner, L.B., J.C. Gann, C. Ladd, K. Cieciel, and C.W. Mordy. 2015. Late summer/early fall phytoplankton biomass (chlorophyll a) in the eastern Bering Sea: spatial and temporal variations and factors affecting chlorophyll a concentrations. Deep Sea Research II: Topical Studies in Oceanography 134:100–114. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2015.07.012

• Phytoplankton
• Oceanography
• Harmful algal blooms

• Pollock Conservation Cooperative Research Center (PCCRC) award, February 2020
• Rasmuson Fisheries Research Fellowship (RFRC) 2018, 2019

• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
• North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES)