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POSTER SESSION REVIEW GULF OF ALASKA: Human & Community Impacts & Ecosystem Perspectives. ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AT SMALL SCALES. ANNE HOOVER-MILLER: Functioning in the Fjords: What does ice have to offer?
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POSTER SESSION REVIEWGULF OF ALASKA: Human & Community Impacts & Ecosystem Perspectives
ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AT SMALL SCALES • ANNE HOOVER-MILLER: Functioning in the Fjords: What does ice have to offer? • THOMAS KLINE: Carbon subsidies derived from cross shelf exchange: a ‘missing link’ in ecological models • HOLLY MCKINNEY: Using stable isotope & mercury analysis of archaeologically deposited Pacific cod as a proxy for understanding changes in ecosystem productivity • GAYLE NEUFELD: Allometric scaling of marine macrophytes in coastal Alaska • TANIA SPURKLAND: Spatial variation of environmental factors in kelp bed communities of Kachemak Bay
COMMUNITY-BASED ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING • KRIS HOLDERIED: Scientists and oyster farmers partner to monitor coastal conditions • MARILYN SIGMAN & STEVE BAIRD: The use of citizen observations in coastal monitoring • VALDEZ YOUTH AREA WATCH STUDENTS: Monitoring, mapping and surveying of the new Mineral Creek State Park area • DONNA WILLOYA: TEK and the Alaska Native Hunters’ Guide to Steller Sea Lion Biosampling
HUMAN IMPACTS ON ECOSYSTEMS: CONTAMINANTS MONITORING • DENNIS APETI: Contaminants monitoring in Alaska by the National Status and Trends Mussel Watch Project • WILLIAM DRISKELL: Monitoring the mussel minima: LTEMP hits new lows • BONITA NELSON: The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council hydrocarbon database • DAVID TALLMON: TBT contamination, imposex, and factors affecting recolonization by an intertidal snail
HUMAN IMPACTS ON ECOSYSTEMS • MICHAEL TUREK: Steller sea lions in Alaska: Direct mortality by humans • RICHARD THORNE: Impacts of seafood waste discharge in Orca Inlet, PWS
MONITORING STATEWIDE: • MOLLY MCCAMMON & CARL SCHOCH: The Alaska Ocean Observing System