Project Synopses

Learn about the substance and relevance of each completed project in just two pages. Project Synopses are appropriate as a “shoreline” of research for:

• Teachers and students of all ages and academic levels
• The public in Alaska and beyond, including tourists interested in marine mammals, seabirds, and the fishing industry
• Alaska residents, including Alaska Native communities, who depend on marine resources for subsistence or employment
• The scientific community of marine researchers
• Agencies responsible for managing North Pacific marine resources

More than 70 NPRB-funded projects are now complete; our goal is to provide a synopsis for each completed project.

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Number	Theme	Title
201	Fish Habitat	Pilot nearshore Habitat mapping using acoustic and visual techniques
202	Fishes	Applying sonar technology to pollock fisheries management
203	Ecosystem	Long-term observations: Sentinels for change in the Bering Sea ecosystem
204	Fishes	North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission salmon tagging
205	Fishes	Use of genetic stock identification to determine the distribution, migration, early marine survival, and relative stock abundance of Western Alaska sockeye salmon
206	Ecosystem	Integrating marine bird and mammal observations with the Continuous Plankton Recorder Program
207	Ecosystem	Detecting change in the Bering Sea ecosystem
208	Fishes	Environmental cues for herring spawning
209	Fishes	Two species of rougheye rockfishes in the northern Gulf of Alaska
210	Fishes	Nutritional quality of Alaskan fish for predators
211	Plankton	Sinking particles and pelagic food webs in the southeast Bering Sea
301	Fish Habitat	Evaluation of essential fish habitat for juvenile flatfish around Kodiak
302	Plankton	A Continuous Plankton Recorder survey of the North Pacific and Southern Bering Sea
304	Fishes	Deep sea coral exploration
305	Fishes	Monitoring and modeling predator/prey relationships
306	Fishes	Species identity and life history of Hematodinium, the causative agent of bitter crab syndrome
307	Mammals	Bering Sea right whale distributions
308	Fishes	Forage fishes in the western Gulf of Alaska: variation in productivity
309	Mammals	Sperm whale and longline fisheries Interactions in the Gulf of Alaska
312	Mammals	Ice seal bio-monitoring in the Bering-Chukchi Sea region
313	Mammals	Effects of prey availability and predation risk on the foraging ecology and demography of harbor seals in Prince William Sound
314	Fish Habitat	Thermal habitat preferences of Pacific halibut and hydrographic variability on a fishery
315	Ecosystem	Long-term observations: Sentinels for change in the Bering Sea ecosystem
316	Fishes	Environmental effects on hatching, habitat selection and survival of juvenile crabs
318	Humans	Baseline commercial fishing community engagement and dependency profiles for the Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands, and Western Gulf of Alaska
319	Fishes	Pigmented macrophage aggregates as markers of Pacific herring population health
320	Seabirds	Seabird studies on kittiwakes, murres, and auklets
322	Seabirds	Short-tailed albatross interactions with North Pacific commercial fisheries
323	Seabirds	Assessment of trawl third wires as a threat to seabirds, including the endangered short-tailed albatross
324	Mammals	Bering Sea wintering grounds of beluga whales
325	Fishes	Video monitoring aboard Bering Sea factory trawlers: a pilot study
327	Fishes	Estuarine ecology of chum salmon in Kuskokwim Bay, western Alaska
401	Fishes	Survey strategies for assessment of Bering Sea forage species
404	Ecosystem	Alaska Marine Information System
406	Ecosystem	Synthesis of marine biology and oceanography of Southeast Alaska
407	Fishes	Kelp-grazer interactions
409	Mammals	Marine bird and mammal observations and the Pacific Continuous Plankton Recorder Program
410	Ecosystem	Long-term observations: Sentinels for change in the Bering Sea ecosystem
411	Mammals	Dietary specialization of killer whales in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands
412	Mammals	Sperm whale Interactions with longline fisheries
413	Seabirds	Tufted puffins as biological indicators of forage fish availability in the Gulf of Alaska
414	Mammals	Consequences of fur seal foraging strategies
415	Fish Habitat	Investigations of a skate nursery
416	Fish Habitat	Ecological value of habitat to juvenile rockfish in the Aleutian Islands
417	Fishes	Reproductive ecology of Atka mackerel in Alaska
418	Fishes	Spiny dogfish in Alaska
420	Fishes	Interannual and spatial variation in population genetic composition of northeastern Gulf of Alaska young-of-the-year Pacific ocean perch, Phases 1 and 2
421	Contaminants	Identification of polybrominated diphenyl ethers in sediments and biota in a pristine southeast Alaska watershed and near a municipal waste landfill in Juneau, Alaska
422	Contaminants	Hydrocarbons in Nelson Lagoon
423	Humans	An international market model for red, blue, golden, tanner, and snow crabs
501	Mammals	Remote monitoring of survival and short-range year-round movements of harbor seals in Prince William Sound, Alaska
503	Ecosystem	Arctic Ocean synthesis: analysis of climate change impacts in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas with strategies for future research
505	Fishes	Walleye pollock in the Eastern Bering Sea: a spatially explicit model
506	Fishes	Factors influencing the mortality of tagged walleye pollock captured using a trawl net
507	Fishes	Environmental effects on hatching, Habitat selection and survival of juvenile crabs
510	Fishes	Skate life history and demography
512	Fishes	Interannual and spatial variation in population genetic composition of northeastern Gulf of Alaska young-of-the-year Pacific ocean perch, Phases 1 and 2
515	Mammals	Ice seal movements
517	Ecosystem	Long-term observations: sentinels for change in the Bering Sea ecosystem
520	Ecosystem	Gulf of Alaska long-lerm observations
524	Fishes	Capelin and pollock in the Gulf of Alaska
528	Humans	Socioeconomic baseline information for the Pribilof Islands
529	Fish Habitat	Economic valuation of critical habitat closures
530	Humans	Institutional arrangements for ecosystem-based management in Alaska marine regions
534	Seabirds	Expanding the seabird tissue archive
536	Plankton	A Continuous Plankton Recorder survey of the North Pacific and Southern Bering Sea
601	Plankton	A Continuous Plankton Recorder survey of the North Pacific and Southern Bering Sea
603	Ecosystem	Gulf of Alaska long-lerm observations
646	Mammals	Steller sea lions in Alaska: direct mortality by humans
309	Mammals	Sperm whale and longline fisheries Interactions in the Gulf of Alaska
527	Mammals	Sperm whale and longline fisheries Interactions in the Gulf of Alaska
626	Mammals	Sperm whale and longline fisheries Interactions in the Gulf of Alaska