A Service Proposal to Examine Impacts of Sea Ice on Hydrographic Structure and Nutrients over the Eastern Bering Sea Shelf during Summer

Basic Project Information

Start Date: 15 September 2007
End Date: 31 August 2008
Full Title: A Service Proposal to Examine Impacts of Sea Ice on Hydrographic Structure and Nutrients over the Eastern Bering Sea Shelf during Summer
Abstract or Short Description:

Funds are provided to collect, quality control, analyze, and distribute to all BEST investigators the core physical and chemical observations collected on the BEST summer cruise as a service component of the larger ecosystem program. The PIs will also examine the persistence of along- and across-shelf gradients of temperature, salinity, fluorescence, oxygen, nutrients and currents by integrating data from the hydrographic surveys in summer with trajectories from satellite-tracked drifters, data from other cruises, and data from long-term moorings (funded elsewhere).

Funding Agencies: National Science Foundation
Unique Project Identifier(s): 0732640

Personnel Information

Principal Investigator(s):
Rolf Sonnerup (rolf.sonnerup@noaa.gov)

Scientific Focus

Implementation Categories:
Relevant Science Question(s): What is the direction and relative importance of system feedbacks?

Geographic Information

Region: 
Bering Sea

Data Collected and/or Produced