Climate Variability, Oceanography, Bowhead Whale Distribution, and Iñupiat Subsistence Whaling near Barrow, Alaska

• Main Authors: Ashjian, Carin J., Braund, Stephen R., Campbell, Robert G., George, J. C., Kruse, Jack, Maslowski, Wieslaw, Moore, Sue E., Nicolson, Craig R., Okkonen, Stephen R., Sherr, Barry F., Sherr, Evelyn B., Spitz, Yvette H.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: SelectedWorks 2010
• Subjects: bowhead whale; plankton; oceanography; Beaufort Sea; subsistence whaling; Sustainability; Water Resource Management; Barrow Canyon; Balaena mysticetus; Barrow; Alaska; Copepods
• Online Access: https://works.bepress.com/craig_nicolson/2; https://works.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1002&context=craig_nicolson

The annual migration of bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) past Barrow, Alaska, has provided subsistence hunting to Iñupiat for centuries. Bowheads recurrently feed on aggregations of zooplankton prey near Barrow in autumn. The mechanisms that form these aggregations, and the associations between w...