• Carin Ashjian (lead PI), Associate Scientist
• Department of Biology
• Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
• 266 Woods Hole Road
• Woods Hole, MA 02543
• Phone: 508-289-3457
• Fax: 508-457-2134
• cashjian@whoi.edu

Dr. Carin Ashjian is an Associate Researcher at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Her research interests include zooplankton ecology, bio-physical interactions, remote sensing of zooplankton, and polar oceanography. Ashjian has participated in over 35 cruises with ice time beginning in the early 1980's. She received her PhD in 1991 from the University of Rhode Island.

• Stephen Braund
• Stephen Braund and Associates
• PO Box 101480
• Anchorage, AK 99510-1480
• Phone: 907-276-8222
• Fax: 907-276-6117
• srba@alaska.net

Mr. Braund, principal of SRB&A for 27 years, has conducted sociocultural and socioeconomic research in over 125 rural Alaska villages since 1973, participating in over 100 research projects throughout rural Alaska, Canada, and Japan.  His research background includes rural subsistence studies, including documentation of harvest amounts and subsistence use areas, assessment of Alaska Eskimo cultural and subsistence need for bowhead whales, cultural resource assessments, and evaluation of socioeconomic and subsistence impacts associated with petroleum exploration and development, mining and other types of development.  Braund has performed subsistence research throughout Alaska, including the North Slope, northwest Alaska, Seward Peninsula, Bering Straits, Norton Sound, the Yukon/Kuskokwim region, Bristol Bay, the Alaska Peninsula, Kodiak Island, the Aleutian/Pribilof Islands region, southcentral Alaska, interior Alaska, southeast Alaska, and Prince William Sound.  Mr. Braund was a member of the scientific review board for the MMS Arctic Nearshore Impact Monitoring In the Development Area (ANIMIDA) project, the goal of which is to document baseline conditions and monitor environmental parameters potentially affected by the Northstar and Liberty offshore oil and gas developments.  Braund also serves as an EVOS Trustee Council Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee member and as a member of the Arctic Institute of North America (ANIA) Grant-In-Aid Committee.  Mr. Braund has a B.A. in Northern Studies and English and an M.A. in Anthropology from the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.

• Robert Campbell
• University of Rhode Island
• Graduate School of Oceanography
• S. Ferry Road
• Narragansett, RI 02882-1197
• Phone: 401-874-6692
• Fax: 401-874-6853
• campbell@gso.uri.edu

• Craig George
• North Slope Borough
• Department of Wildlife Management
• PO Box 69
• Barrow, AK
• Phone: 907-852-0350
• Fax: 907-852-9848
• cgeorge@co.north-slope.ak.us

• Jack Kruse
• University of Massachusetts
• Department of Geosciences
• 117 N Leverett Road
• Leverett, MA 01054
• Phone: 413-367-2240
• Fax: 413-367-0092
• afjak@uaa.alaska.edu

Jack came with his family to Alaska in 1975 to join the faculty at the University of Alaska's Institute of Social and Economic Research. Although now retired, he continues to work on research projects in the Arctic. Much of his work has been a collaboration with Native organizations and regional organizations like the North Slope Borough. He has focused his research on people's responses to oil and gas development and climate change. In SNACS Jack will be working with Craig George, Carin Ashjian, Steve Braund, and Craig Nicolson on bowhead feeding and its relationship to bowhead whaling.

• Craig Nicolson
• Department of Natural Resources Conservation
• 160 Holdsworth Way
• Amherst, MA 01003-4210
• Phone: 413-545-3154
• Fax: 413-545-4358
• craign@forwild.umass.edu

• Wieslaw Maslowski
• Naval Postgraduate School
• Department of Oceanography - Code OC/Ma
• 833 Dyer Road Room 331
• Monterey, CA 93943-5122
• Phone: 831-656-3162
• Fax: 831-656-2712
• maslowsk@ncar.ucar.edu

• Sue Moore
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
• National Marine Mammal Laboratory
• 7600 Sand Point Way NE
• Seattle, WA 98115
• Phone: 206-526-4047
• Fax: 206-526-6615
• sue.moore@noaa.gov

Sue E. Moore, Ph.D., received her doctorate from Scripps Institution of Oceanography, with a dissertation entitled “Cetacean Habitats in the Alaskan Arctic” based upon a decade of sighting data from offshore aerial surveys. She has served as Director, and as Cetacean Program Leader, at the National Marine Mammal Laboratory (NMML) and is currently on detail to the Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) at the University of Washington to develop and support acoustic and Arctic-related research programs for the Alaska Fisheries Science Center. Sue serves on several Arctic-related scientific advisory committees including: the National Science Foundation Shelf-Basin Interaction Program; the Scientific Committee of the International Whaling Commission; and the International Arctic Polynya Program. She has (co) authored over 50 scientific papers, many as first-author and most focused on marine mammals offshore Alaska. One recent contribution was a chapter entitled “Long-term Environmental Change and Marine Mammals” prepared for the MMC Consultation on Future Directions in Marine Mammal Research.

• Stephen Okkonen
• University of Alaska Fairbanks
• Institute of Marine Science
• PO Box 1025
• Kasilof, AK 99610
• Phone: 907-283-3234
• Fax: 907-283-3234
• okkonen@alaska.net

• Barry Sherr
• Oregon State University
• College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences (COAS)
• 104 Oceanography Admin Building
• Corvallis, OR 97331-5503
• Phone: 541-737-4369 (also: -4647)
• Fax: 541-737-2064
• sherrb@ucs.orst.edu

Barry and Ev Sherr are a research team in the field of Microbial Oceanography. Barry earned his PhD from the University of Georgia in 1977, and Ev from Duke University in 1974. They have shared a position in the College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences at Oregon State University since 1990. They are interested in the roles of heterotrophic microbes, bacteria and phagotrophic protists, in the ecology of marine pelagic ecosystems, and are currently carrying out research projects on bacterial activity and on distribution of microzooplankton off the coast of Oregon, and on the role of microzooplankton in pelagic food webs in the Arctic Ocean.

• Evelyn Sherr
• Oregon State University
• College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences
• 104 Ocean Admin Building
• Corvallis, OR 97331-5503
• Phone: 541-737-4369
• Fax: 541-737-2064
• sherre@coas.oregonstate.edu

Barry and Ev Sherr are a research team in the field of Microbial Oceanography. Barry earned his PhD from the University of Georgia in 1977, and Ev from Duke University in 1974. They have shared a position in the College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences at Oregon State University since 1990. They are interested in the roles of heterotrophic microbes, bacteria and phagotrophic protists, in the ecology of marine pelagic ecosystems, and are currently carrying out research projects on bacterial activity and on distribution of microzooplankton off the coast of Oregon, and on the role of microzooplankton in pelagic food webs in the Arctic Ocean.

• Yvette Spitz
• Oregon State University
• College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences (COAS)
• 104 Oceanography Admin Building
• Corvallis, OR 97331
• Phone: 541-737-3227
• Fax: 541-737-2064
• yvette@oce.orst.edu