Current CMI Projects

Satellite ocean color remote sensing of water mass dynamics in Cook Inlet
PI: Hisatoma Waga

From Beaufort to Bering Seas: Analyzing relationships of communication and risk-sharing in anticipation of increased hydrocarbon traffic off Alaska’s northern coasts
PI: Amy Lovecraft

Understanding Pacific Halibut Spatial Dynamics in the Northern Bering Sea
PI: Andew Seitz

Harnessing the power of eDNA as a real-time assessment tool of nearshore Arctic marine communities
PI: Jessica Glass

Delineating species and stock boundaries in the Arctic-Bering cisco species pair
PI: Andres Lopez

Biological effects of Cook Inlet crude oil degradation products and suspect screening of oxidized PAHs
PI: Patrick Tomco

Arctic Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Structure Data Analysis and Synthesis
PI: Seth Danielson

Are expanding Pink Salmon populations in the Arctic produced from regional watersheds?
PI: Kristen Gorman

Investigating the impacts of oil exposure and changing snow cover on sea ice microbial communities
PI: Gwenn Hennon

Hydrocarbon Oxidation Products in Cook Inlet: Formation and Bioaccumulation in Mussels
PI: Patrick Tomco

Kelp restoration in the Boulder Patch
PI: Katrin Iken

Feasibility study for a novel instrumental technique to characterize subsurface currents and hydrography within the Alaska OCS
PI: Kay McMonigal

Graduate Student Projects

Resources use by Arctic fishes along Beaufort Sea coastal lagoons
Sydney Wilkinson (Ph.D. Marine Biology)

Passive acoustic monitoring of killer whates (Orcinus orca) in the northern Gulf of Alaska
Hannah Myers (M.S. Marine Biology)

Comparison of Cook Inlet beluga acoustic presence in critical foraging habitat between years of reduced commercial salmon fishing zones
Sonia Kumar(M.S. Marine Biology)