Alaska Marine Science Symposuim

MMS Research Supports the Alaska Marine Science Symposium in 2010

The Alaska Marine Science Symposium is an annual science meeting held in Anchorage, Alaska, which provides opportunities for scientists to inform each other about their research activities in the marine regions off Alaska. An estimated 700-800 people attended the Alaska Marine Science Symposium in 2010. This year's symposium included opening remarks by Alaska Senator Mark Begich. The symposium included plenary talks, workshops, meetings, and poster receptions by scientists conducting research in Alaska.

The symposium schedule is organized geographically by the three large marine ecosystems off Alaska, including the Gulf of Alaska, the Bering Sea, and the Arctic. Individual panels in the plenary sessions are focused on the main components of the ecosystem including climate and oceanography, lower trophic level productivity, fish and fish habitat, seabirds, marine mammals, and human systems.

This year, over 30 MMS sponsored research projects within the Beaufort, Chukchi, and Bering seas were presented in the form of oral presentations and poster sessions, including six workshops and planning meetings held by MMS scientists and MMS sponsored Principal Investigators. The MMS sponsored presentations can be found at the following MMS web site:
http://www.mms.gov/alaska/ess/Poster%20Presentations/Posters.HTM.

Full details regarding all of the research presented at past symposiums can be found at the Alaska Marine Science Symposium Web Site located at:http://www.alaskamarinescience.org/

The following are copies of presentations provided at this workshop event:

• An Integrated Chemical and Biological Study of the Benthos of the Chukchi Sea: Preliminary Results from the COMIDA Program

• Poster: Managing Information for the Chukchi Sea Marine Ecosystem

• Poster: Epibenthic Habitats of the Bering and Chukchi Seas Observed and Categorized During BEST-BSIERP, COMIDA, and Shell Oil Exploration-Supported Seafloor Video Surveys

• Poster: Trace Metals in Seawater, Sediments and the Northern Neptune Whelk (Neptunea heros) from the Chukchi Sea, COMIDA Project

• Poster: Chukchi Sea Infaunal Population Structure and Sediment Biogeochemistry as Part of COMIDA and Shell Oil Exploration Environmental Studies

• Poster: Winds, Currents, and Krill: The Story of the Barrow Area Bowhead Whale Feeding Hotspot

• Poster: Organic Containment Distribution in Shelf Sediments and Biota of the Chukchi Sea: Initial Results from the COMIDA Program

• Poster: Detecting Bowhead Whale (Balaena mysticetus) sounds in the Beaufort Sea: Confounding Sounds of Cacophony of Noise

• Poster: COMIDA: Epidenthic Community Structure

• Poster: Using a new short-term dermal attachment tag to study bowhead foraging ecology in the western Beaufort Sea

• Poster: Mapping and Characterization of Recurring Spring Leads and Landfast Ice in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas

• Mapping Sea Ice Overflood on the Alaskan Beaufort Sea Coast Using Remote Sensing

• Poster: Long-term changes in the movement and distribution of polar bears in the southern Beaufort Sea

• The cANIMIDA Project: Monitoring Sediment and Biota in Nearshore Oil and Gas Development and Production Areas in the Arctic Beaufort Sea, Alaska

• Poster: Chukchi/Beaufort Seas Meteorology Study: Data Collection, Mesoscale Modeling, and Climatology Analysis

• Poster: Ecosystem Characteristics Based on Benthic Biomass, Density, and Stability; Isotopic Signatures from Chukchi Sea Cruise COMIDA