| Updated: July 12, 2010 |
| Plots and results from the Summer 2010 Bering Sea Ecosystems cruise are shown here. This Summer expedition is funded through the BEST-BSIERP program in conjunction with NOAA's NPCREP* program, and jointly funded by NSF and NPRB. This R/V Thomas G. Thompson cruise carries scientists from a multiple of disciplines, measuring ocean conditions and food web productivity on the eastern Bering Sea shelf. These fit into the larger directive of this multi-year project addressing the study and inter-relationship of climate, oceanography, fisheries biology, marine mammals, seabirds, and local and traditional knowledge. |
| Four scientists from the EcoFOCI project are out on the ship. We are handling hydrography, water sampling, nutrients and O2 analysis. The cruise left from Dutch Harbor, Alaska in the Aleutian Islands on June 17th. |
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Contour plots from CTD cross sections [scroll, then click for larger plot] Top plots are temperature (left), salinity (right) |
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SL (St. Lawrence) CTD Line in the Bering Sea
 MN CTD Line between Nunivak Island and St.Matthew Island in the Bering Sea  NP CTD Line between Nunivak and St. Paul Islands in the Bering Sea 
p14n CTD Line in the Bering Sea  SB (Shelf Break) CTD Line in the Bering Sea  UAP CTD Line in the Bering Sea 
W CTD Line inshore of the 70-m isobath and north of Nunivak Island in the Bering Sea  CN CTD cross-shelf line located far south in the SE Bering Sea Shelf  CNN CTD cross-shelf line in the SE Bering Sea Shelf  |
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Water samples from 5-meters depth were taken from the underway seawater sampling system and analyzed to obtain these along-track data. Plots shown below: temperature, salinity, chlorophyll fluorescence, and nitrate concentration. [scroll, then click for full size] |
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NSF - National Science Foundation NPRB - North Pacific Research Board BEST-BSIERP BEST - Bering Ecosystem Study
BSIERP - Bering Sea Integrated Ecosystem Research Program
NOAA - National Oceanic and Atmospheric AdministrationNPCREP - North Pacific Climate Regimes and Ecosystem Productivity |
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