Field Notes 2008-2010

Year	Focal Area	Length	Correspondent(s) or PIs involved	Read the Story!	Vessel	Fieldwork Summary or Links to Individual Stories
2010	fish	Aug 16-Sep 26	Sandra Parker-Stetter	Forage Fish and Salmon Survey	NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson	Overview Welcome to Dutch Harbor! Heading out and sampling Finding our groove A big haul of jellyfish Sunburns and jellies Strange days, indeed Shallow water, lots of company Leg 2 begins Little fish down deep Unexpected guests Shifting gears Oceanography 101 Home stretch A successful survey
2010	benthos	Jul 19-22	Brad Moran	Bering Sea Carbon Cycling	n/a	Brad Moran reports on changes in primary productivity, phytoplankton community composition, carbon export, net community composition, and sediment oxygen utilization in the Bering Sea Project study region.
2010	fish	Jun 4-Aug 4	Patrick Ressler Mike Sigler	Pollock Survey	NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson	Bering Sea Project scientists and participants in NOAA's Teachers at Sea program conduct pollock surveys in the Bering Sea.
2010	multiple	Jun 16-Jul 14	David Shull, Chief Scientist	Late Spring Cruise	NOAA Ship Thomas G. Thompson	Overview Bering Sea water properties Nature's tracers Profusion of plankton Students at sea Bering Sea sediments Benthic Nirvana Shelf sampling, cruise recap
2010	multiple	May 9-Jun 14	Carin Ashjian, Chief Scientist	Early Spring Cruise	NOAA Ship Thomas G. Thompson	Eye of the storm Copepods A beautiful evening Sea change Eerie gray calm Dall's Porpoises Farewell to the Ice End of a successful cruise
2010	fish	Mar 24-27	Franz Mueter	Unalaska Community Visit	n/a	Franz Mueter makes a presentation at Unalaska-Dutch Harbor about the potential effects of climate change on Bering Sea fisheries.
2010	multiple	Mar 6-Apr 6	Matt Sexson, USGS and UAF	Early Spring Cruise	USCG Polar Sea	In Kodiak Sea ice research Eiders! Benthic sampling On station Seabird surveys Underway
2010	local and traditional knowledge	Feb 1-12	Nick Bond Josh Wisniewski	Togiak Community Visits	n/a	Nick Bond and Josh Wisniewski, with ADFG's Ted Krieg, visit Togiak to interview community residents in Yup'ik and English.
2009	seabirds	summer	Scott Heppell Rosana Paredes	Seabird Telemetry	F/V Goldrush	Scott Heppell and Rosana Paredes track black-legged kittiwakes and thick-billed murres in the Pribilofs.
2009	predator-prey dynamics	summer	Scott Heppell Rosana Paredes	Patch Dynamics at Sea	F/V Goldrush, F/V Frosti	Scott Heppell and Rosana Paredes map prey available to seabirds and fur seals in the Pribilofs.
2009	local and traditional knowledge	July	Henry Huntington Chad Jay George Noongwook Caleb Pungowiyi	Local and Traditional Knowledge in Savoonga	n/a	Henry Huntington and Chad Jay travel to Savoonga to interview village elders and to survey seabirds and walrus.
2009	fish	May 7-20	Janet Duffy-Anderson	Ichthyoplankton Surveys	NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson	Janet Duffy-Anderson tracks the distribution of ichthyoplankton (larval fish) and their plankton prey.
2009	multiple	Apr 4-May 11	Carin Ashjian, Chief Scientist	Late Spring Cruise	USCG Healy	Heading south Great grazing! Finally phytoplankton Sediment trap rodeo Rolling in the swell BING BING BING ... Plankton grazing Slogging through the ice Cold and beautiful Lucky the clam Dancing copepods Forty more days
2009	multiple	Mar 10-31	Tom Van Pelt, Program Manager	Early Spring Cruise	USCG Healy	Strong winds and ice algae Ice birds in the polynya Walrus tag Eiders and ice cores Rock the shafts
2008	predator-prey dynamics	summer	Kelly Benoit-Bird Scott Heppell Sasha Kitaysky Andrew Trites	Bird and Mammal Studies on Bogoslof and the Pribilofs	USFWS R/V Tiglax, F/V Frosti	Kelly Benoit-Bird and Scott Heppell use hydroacoustics to detect prey "patches" of krill. Sasha Kitaysky and Andrew Trites lead teams to survey the foraging habits of murres, kittiwakes, and fur seals.
2008	multiple	Jul 3-31	Tom Van Pelt, Program Manager	Summer Cruise	USCG Healy	Micro life Grazing the deep Zooplankton Searching for birds Icebreaking steel
2008	multiple	Mar 29-May 6	Carin Ashjian, Chief Scientist	Late Spring Cruise	USCG Healy	Leaving Dutch Harbor Multicore, sediments, albatross Storms and stations at sea Into the ice Springtime in the Bering Sea Smooth sailing Mesmerized by ice Algae, krill and the big chill My pager, and huge waves Riding the swell Pancakes and Jim Swift rolls Logistics and light Barbecue at sea Visiting the community Heading south Return to Dutch Harbor
2008	multiple	Mar 13-26	Nora Deans, Bering Sea Project Outreach Manager	Early Spring Cruise	USCG Healy	We arrive in Dutch Boarding Healy, first ice Belugas, board of lies, walrus Bering Sea hotspot Elusive eiders
2008	atmosphere and ocean	spring	Peggy Sullivan, NOAA	Hydrography	n/a	Peggy Sullivan explains how and why we sample the physical properties of water, including temperature, salinity, nutrients, chlorophyll, and oxygen.
2008	fish	May 12-21	Janet Duffy-Anderson	Ichthyoplankton Surveys	NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson	Janet Duffy-Anderson and her team track the distribution of ichthyoplankton (larval fish) and their plankton prey.
2008	seabirds	summer	Rachel Orben Rosana Paredes	Seabird Telemetry	n/a	Rosana Paredes and Rachel Orben track black-legged kittiwakes to learn more about offshore foraging patterns.
2008	fish	n/a	Jim Ianelli Franz Mueter	Pollock	n/a	Franz Mueter and Jim Ianelli explore the northward shift of walleye pollock in the Bering Sea and what it could mean for the fishery.
2008	benthos	spring	Nora Deans, Bering Sea Project Outreach Manager Rolf Gradinger	Sea Ice	USCG Healy	Nora Deans profiles Rolf Gradinger's work on sea ice algae.
2008	marine mammals	spring	Sue Moore	Sounds of the Sea	USCG Healy	Sue Moore uses a hydrophone to listen for undersea life and gain insight into distribution patterns of marine mammals.
2008	seabirds	spring	Nora Deans, Bering Sea Project Outreach Manager Jim Lovvorn	Searching for Spectacled Eiders	USCG Healy	Nora Deans reports on seabird biologist Jim Lovvorn's work with spectacled eiders, the entire population of which overwinters in the northern Bering.
2008	marine mammals	spring	Tony Fishbach Chad Jay	Walrus	n/a	Tony Fishbach and Chad Jay tag and track walrus in the Bering Sea. They will combine the walrus data with benthic samples from the same region to describe foraging effort by walruses relative to the distribution of their prey.
2008	atmosphere and ocean	winter	Ned Cokelet	Winter Oceanography	F/V Aldebaran	Ned Cokelet equips a fishing vessel to make oceanographic measurements while underway during a winter fishery. The purpose is to collect wide-ranging measurements of basic ecosystem conditions such as water temperature, salinity, and phytoplankton abundance.

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