DRIVERS OF EPIBENTHIC BIODIVERSITY AND ABUNDANCE IN BARROW CANYON, CHUKCHI SEA UTILIZING DROP CAMERA VIDEO DATA

• Main Author: Pfaff, Andrea Ruth
• Other Authors: Grebmeier, Jacqueline M, Marine-Estuarine-Environmental Sciences, Digital Repository at the University of Maryland, University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Biology; Environmental science; Chukchi Sea; Drop Camera Video System; Epibenthic Macrofauna; Pacific Arctic; Underwater Imagery; Arctic; Pacific; Barrow Canyon; Chukchi
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1903/29642; https://doi.org/10.13016/hy9w-3vuq

In the Northeastern Chukchi Sea’s Barrow Canyon, modeling indicates that converging currents rapidly downwell high volumes of labile carbon creating a benthic biological hotspot. Utilizing a Drop Camera Video System, this thesis analyzes the epibenthic population across upper Barrow Canyon along the...