Meet the Scientists: C

Robert Campbell University of Rhode Island email

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Lorenzo Ciannelli Oregon State University email

My primary research focus is on fisheries oceanography and marine ecosystem ecology. I am interested in studying the causes of temporal and spatial variations of marine populations. Most of my work revolves around early life stages of fish, as variability at the population level is closely linked to egg, larval and juvenile survival in marine organisms. Through these investigations I combine quantitative analyses (i. e. , mathematical and statistical modeling) with more field and experimentally-oriented approaches.

Phil Clapham NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center email

Dr. Phil Clapham is the leader of the Cetacean Assessment and Ecology Program at the National Marine Mammal Lab in Seattle. His work focuses on population biology, behavioral ecology and conservation management, with particular emphasis on large whales. He has studied cetaceans since 1980, and at one time or another has worked with most species of whales in various places worldwide.

Prior to his current position, he worked at the Northeast Fisheries Science Center in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. He remains associated with the Smithsonian Institution (National Museum of Natural History) in Washington DC, and for many years directed a long-term study of individually identified humpback whales at the Center for Coastal Studies in Massachusetts.

Phil holds a PhD in zoology from the University of Aberdeen (Scotland), and has advised several governments and other bodies on whale research and conservation. Phil is a former member of the Board of Governors of the Society for Marine Mammalogy, and is a long-time member of the US delegation to the International Whaling Commission’s Scientific Committee. He is an editor for two scientific journals (Biology Letters and Mammal Review), and has published four books and more than a hundred peer-reviewed papers on whales and other cetaceans.

Ned Cokelet NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory email

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Lee Cooper University of Maryland email

Lee Cooper is a Research Professor at the Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory. He received his PhD in Oceanography from the University of Alaska Fairbanks in 1987 following undergraduate and graduate work at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the University of Washington.

His research interests include biogeochemical cycling in high-latitude ecosystem through the use of isotopic and elemental tracers. He has extensive polar shipboard research experience on all three current US Coast Guard icebreakers, including service as chief scientist coordinating several multidisciplinary research programs. He was also lead principal investigator for the Bering Strait Environmental Observatory, which involved local subsistence hunters in collection of samples and pilot-scale continuous seawater pumping operations in Bering Strait from Little Diomede Island.

Dr. Cooper has been active in working to improve collaborative bi-national research in the Russian Arctic and participates as the US representative in an International Arctic Science Committee working group that exchanges information with other arctic countries on multinational research activities in the Russian Arctic. He has been the lead author of more than 30 peer-reviewed publications and a co-author on a roughly equal number of other studies. He served as a member of a National Academy of Sciences study committee on designing an Arctic Observing Network that will improve capabilities for detecting climate change in the Arctic.

His public outreach efforts to explain climate change, particularly in high latitude regions, have included interviews for mass media outlets such as the CBS Evening News, News Hour with Jim Lehrer, Los Angeles Times, The Nome Nugget, USA Today, National Public Radio and the BBC.

Ken Coyle University of Alaska Fairbanks email

Ken Coyle holds a research faculty position at the UAF Institute of Marine Science. He has been involved in marine research in Alaska for more than thirty years, studying population dynamics and composition of zooplankton and benthos as fundamental links between primary producers and apex predators. His research has been focused primarily on the ecology of the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska shelves.

He has recently been involved in incorporating a nutrient-phytoplankton-zooplankton model into ROMS (a general circulation model) as part of a continuation of a multidisciplinary study (GLOBEC) of the Gulf of Alaska shelf ecosystem, and is generating software for the organization, visualization and analysis of data from BASIS (an international program to study salmon in the Bering Sea). He is currently collaborating with Alaska Ocean Observing System and NCAR personnel to provide integrated data management services for BEST-BSIERP.

Enrique Curchitser Rutgers University email

No bio available.