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A Voyage Through The Arctic Post #2

A Voyage Through the Arctic

Follow NOAA Fisheries Alaska Tribal Research Coordinator and partners collecting valuable data and information to further promote awareness of our precious Alaskan resources.
August 15, 2022 - Research ,
Alaska
Alaska Native woman researcher holding a rockfish Mabel Baldwin-Schaeffer holding a shortspine thornyhead rockfish. Credit: NOAA Fisheries

A Voyage Through the Arctic Post #1

A Voyage Through the Arctic

Follow NOAA Fisheries Alaska Tribal Research Coordinator and partners collecting valuable data and information to further promote awareness of our precious Alaskan resources.
August 05, 2022 - Science Blog ,
Alaska
Mabel Baldwin-Schaeffer stands under an arch made of two whale ribs. She has her arms raised, with her back to the camera and facing the Arctic Ocean on a beach in Utqiagvik, Alaska. The skeleton of a small overturned boat is propped up on the beach beside the arch. Sea ice gathers along the shore and in the distant offshore with a stretch of open water in between. Blue sky and gray clouds are visible above the horizon. Mabel Baldwin-Schaeffer under the Utqiagvik whale bone arch overlooking the Arctic Ocean. Credit: Patrick Savok.

Innovation to Learn More About Alaska's Deep-Sea Corals and the Species that Live There Post #8

Innovation to Learn About Deep-Sea Coral Communities in the Gulf of Alaska

Some of our observations during this survey of deep sea coral ecosystems in the Gulf of Alaska
July 29, 2022 - Survey ,
Alaska
A soft fan shaped coral sits surrounded by the rocky structures that have built upon each other for years as part of this unique ecosystem. Credit: NMFS/NOAA. Color correction applied by NOAA Fisheries

Innovation to Learn More About Alaska's Deep-Sea Corals and the Species that Live There Post #7

Innovation to Learn About Deep-Sea Coral Communities in the Gulf of Alaska

Environmental DNA (eDNA): using genetics from the environment to survey for deep sea life in the Gulf of Alaska
July 26, 2022 - Survey ,
Alaska
Two scientists extracting eDNA from Niskin bottle water sample. Meredith Pochardt (left) and Sean Rooney (right) collecting water samples from a Niskin bottle. The bottles are attached on the cable above the drop camera and can be triggered to capture water at targeted depths and locations to look for eDNA. Image courtesy of Sean Rooney, NOAA

Winter Observing On A Commercial Longline Vessel - Post #7

Winter Observing On A Long-Line Vessel

Join fish biologist Rory Morgan as she braves the Arctic winter on a commercial fishing vessel in the Bering Sea to collect valuable scientific information as part of the North Pacific Observer Program.
July 20, 2022 - Fisheries Observer ,
Alaska
Sea birds hunt fish behind a longline vessel in the Bering Sea on a partially cloudy day. Credit: NOAA Fisheries

Innovation to Learn More About Alaska's Deep-Sea Corals and the Species that Live There Post #6

Innovation to Learn About Deep-Sea Coral Communities in the Gulf of Alaska

A preview of the exciting findings from Leg 1 of our survey!
July 19, 2022 - Survey ,
Alaska
An underwater photograph shows a diverse muddy bottom habitat with brittlestars, stylasterid (lace) corals, and other invertebrates forming a deep-sea coral ecosystem in the North Pacific. Credit: NOAA Fisheries Diverse benthic habitat, showing brittlestars, a crinoid, and stylasterid corals of the genus Stylaster. Stylasterid (Stylasteridae) corals are among the most important habitat-forming invertebrates in deep-sea coral ecosystems in the North Pacific. They are also known as ‘lace corals’ or ‘hydrocorals’. Like their warm water cousins the stony coral, found in coral reefs, they have rigid skeletons made of calcium carbonate. Credit: NOAA Fisheries

Innovation to Learn More About Alaska's Deep-Sea Corals and the Species that Live There Post #5

Innovation to Learn About Deep-Sea Coral Communities in the Gulf of Alaska

A review of challenges and accomplishments upon arrival in Yakutat, Alaska at the end of Leg 1 of the coral survey.
July 14, 2022 - Survey ,
Alaska
A group of scientists pose around an underwater drop camera in a metal housing aboard a ship. Credit: NOAA Fisheries The vessel and scientific crew aboard the R/V Woldstad. From top-left: Michael Rathibhan (Woldstad) and Glen Martin (Woldstad), James Longero (Woldstad), Chris Andrews (Woldstad), Brooke Andrews (Woldstad), Pam Goddard (AFSC), Elaina Jorgensen (AFSC), Pat Malecha (AFSC), and Sean Rooney (AFSC). Not shown, Meredith Pochardt (AFSC) Image courtesy of NOAA Fisheries

Winter Observing On A Commercial Longline Vessel - Post #6

Winter Observing On A Long-Line Vessel

Join fish biologist Rory Morgan as she braves the Arctic winter on a commercial fishing vessel in the Bering Sea to collect valuable scientific information as part of the North Pacific Observer Program.
July 05, 2022 - Fisheries Observer ,
Alaska
A sunrise over the Bering Sea. Credit: Rory Morgan, Alaska Observers Inc. Edited by NOAA Fisheries Red sky at morning over the Bering Sea. Credit: Rory Morgan, Alaska Observers Inc.

Innovation to Learn More About Alaska's Deep-Sea Corals and the Species that Live There Post #4

Innovation to Learn About Deep-Sea Coral Communities in the Gulf of Alaska

Highlights from the deep: images of corals found in Alaska during 2022's survey.
July 05, 2022 - Survey ,
Alaska
A sea floor of soft sediment covered in venus flytrap sea anenomes and other invertebrates such as brittle stars. Credit: NMFS/NOAA One of the more common seafloor habitats in the Gulf of Alaska is sand and mud. These soft sediment habitats are home to the venus flytrap sea anemone (Actinoscyphia aurelia) and other invertebrates such as this great armored brittle star (Stegophiura ponderosa). Many of the organisms in these habitats are passive suspension feeders that orient themselves into the current to capture passing organic particles as they drift by. Image courtesy of NMFS, NOAA. Color correction applied by NOAA Fisheries.

Innovation to Learn More About Alaska's Deep-Sea Corals and the Species that Live There Post #3

Innovation to Learn About Deep-Sea Coral Communities in the Gulf of Alaska

Sean Rooney shares his observations as coral survey team heads to the U.S. – Canada border in Dixon Entrance
June 30, 2022 - Survey ,
Alaska
station map for Gulf of Alaska coral survey Map of data collection points in the Gulf of Alaska for measuring coral and sponge density and diversity. Color of points indicates priority for sampling a given location. Image courtesy of Sean Rooney, NOAA