Project Title: Project Period: Alaskan Ferry Oceanographic Monitoring in the Gulf of Alaska

• Main Authors: Daniel F. Doolittle Kbrr, Dr. Nicholas A. Bond Uw/jisao, Daniel F. Doolittle, Daniel. Doolittle
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: 51; 843.00; Gulf of Alaska; Kodiak; Alaska
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.510.3633; http://doc.nprb.org/web/07_prjs/707(7).pdf

Long-term ocean monitoring Summary of Proposed Work: Oceanographic monitoring is essential to deliver real-time ecosystem information for public and advisory use, to provide boundary conditions for numerical models and to put the marine ecosystem into an historical perspective that can reveal long-term developmental, climatic and anthropogenic changes. In 2004, we I installed a monitoring system aboard the Alaskan ferry Tustumena that operates between Homer, Kodiak and Dutch Harbor in the Gulf of Alaska. The instruments measure water temperature, salinity, phytoplankton nutrients, phytoplankton biomass, freshwater influence and water clarity. We propose to continue and augment the monitoring tc create an uninterrupted, long-term data set. We will take water samples throughout the year for instrument calibration. In addition, we propose to make the observations available to researchers and the general public within hours of data collection via the World Wide Web. Finally we will enhance our public outreach with an educational, Google-Earth-based public display system in the ferry's passenger lounge. Total Funding Requested From NPRB: