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Thomas Weingartner

University of Alaska Fairbanks

weingart@ims. uaf. edu | I am a Professor of Marine Science at the School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Since 1989 I have been fortunate to study the physical processes that affect the oceanography of the continental shelves of the Gulf of Alaska, and Bering, Chukchi, and Beaufort seas. See a sampling of this work.

I am particularly interested in the mechanisms that govern circulation, affect mixing, and alter the temperature and salinity of continental shelf waters. My measurements of currents, temperature, salinity, and fluorescence (a proxy for chlorophyll) come from moored oceanographic instruments that sample year-round at hourly intervals and instruments deployed from ships as diverse as nuclear submarines and small skiffs. In addition I use satellite-tracked drifters and a variety of satellite-derived data sets in my research.

Terry Whitledge

University of Alaska Fairbanks

terry@ims. uaf. edu

Chris Wilson

NOAA

chris. wilson@noaa. gov

Josh Wisniewski

University of Alaska Fairbanks

fsjw15@uaf. edu | Josh Wisniewski is a PhD candidate with the UAF Department of Anthropology; he received his BA and MA in anthropology from the University of Alaska Anchorage. Wisniewski's research explores the complex sets of relations between Iñupiaq and Yup'ik societies and marine mammals through time and the ontological premises shaping local and traditional ecological knowledge constructions.

For the past five years his research has been focused in Shishmaref, Alaska, where he has worked with Iñupiaq hunters and elders exploring and documenting ecological knowledge of bearded seals and historic and contemporary hunting practices. Expanding the geographic scope of his ongoing research, Wisniewski will be learning from hunters and elders in the communities of Togiak and Emmonak. Here, he will document local and traditional ecological knowledge, experiences and observations of the interactions between marine mammals, and changing ice conditions in these settings.

Rebecca Woodgate

University of Washington

woodgate@apl. washington. edu | I am a Senior Oceanographer in the Polar Science Center at the University of Washington's Applied Physics Laboratory in Seattle. I am a physical oceanographer, specializing in field observations in ice-covered seas. My background is in physics and computer modeling, and I now work mostly with mooring data and ship-based data from the Arctic and sub-Arctic seas. In this Bering Sea project, I am working with modeler Dr. Jinlun Zhang, using a computer model of ocean and sea-ice to study the changing sea-ice in the Bering Sea, especially the physical causes of change and the implications for this remarkably rich ecosystem. For more details of our project, please see our website.

Jingfeng Wu

University of Alaska Fairbanks

jwu@iarc. uaf. edu