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RUSALCA Principal Investigators and their Projects

 

U.S.  Proposals

 

1)       Cathy Cahill  University of Alaska, Fairbanks

a.      Atmospheric Aerosols over the Bering & Chukchi Seas

 

2)        Jackie Grebmeier and Lee Cooper, University of Tennessee

a.      Benthic Processes & Ecosystem Change in the Northern Bering & Chukchi Seas

 

3)       Russell Hopcroft and Ksenia Kosobokova Universitiy of Alaska, Fairbanks and Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Moscow

a.      A Census of Arctic Zooplankton Communities

 

4)        Katrin Iken and Bodil Bluhm, University of Alaska, Fairbanks

a.      Arctic Epibenthic Community Structure & Benthic Food Web Structure

 

5)       Brenda Norcross and Brenda Holladay, University of Alaska, Fairbanks

a.      Fisheries Ecology of the Bering & Chukchi Sea

 

6)       Robert Pickart, Andrey Proshutinsky, Carin Ashjian, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

a.      Flow of Pacific Water Through the Western Chukchi: Dynamics and Biological Implications

 

7)       David Stein, Catherine Mecklenberg, Natalia Chernova and Boris Sheiko, NOAA, Pt. Stevens Research, and Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg

a.      Biodiversity of Adult Fish

 

8)       Thomas Weingartner , University of Alaska, Fairbanks

                                                               i.      Bering Strait: The Pacific-Arctic Ocean Connection

 

9)       Terry Whitledge University of Alaska, Fairbanks

                                                               i.      Interactions of Productivity & Nutrient Processes in the Northern Bering & Chukchi Seas

 

 

Russian Proposals

 

1)       Anatoly S. Astakhov (PI), A.Svininnikov, M.Ivanov, V. Sattarova, B. Li. Pacific Oceanological Institute FEB RAS

a)       Investigation of Gas and Water (Cold and Hot Vents on the Piips Volcano

 

b)       Discovery and investigation of gas and water seeps from sedimentary
basins in permafrost degradation regions of the Bering and Chukchi Seas

 

2)       Cherkashov, G.  (PI), Soloviev, A. Krylov, V. Petrova, L. Mazurenko L.L., O. Kijko. VNIIOKEANGEOLOGIA, St. Petersburg

a)       Study of hydrothermal activity and related geological and biological objects and processes on the Piips volcano, Bering Sea.

 

b)       Glacial history of the Chukchi borderland

 

c)       Study of gas hydrate accumulations associated with fluid discharge areas in the Bering and Chukchi seas

 

3)       Russell R. Hopcroft, (PI) Institute of Marine Science, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Ksenia Kosobokova, Shirshov Institute of Oceanography, Moscow,

a)       A Census of Arctic Zooplankton Communities

 

4)       Mikhail Ivanov (PI, academician), N.  Pimenov, A. Lein, A. Savvichev and I. Rusanov (Institute of Microbiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow

a)       Microbiological and biogeochemical aspects of the carbon and sulfur cycles in the water column and bottom sediments of the Bering and Chuckchi Seas

 

5)       B.I. Sirenko. (PI) S.G. Denissenko, V.V. Petrjashev, S.Ju. Gagaev, A.A. Golikov, A.V. Smirnov, E.L. Markhaseva. Zoological Institute RAS (St. Petersburg)

a)       Fauna of the Chukchi and Bering Seas and their dynamics.

 

6)       Igor Lavrenov, Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, Roshydromet, St. Petersburg

a)       Monitoring flux in the Western Bering Strait, Russian Mooring operations


 

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