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Bering Sea storms introduce various environmental conditions that adversely affect human activity and infrastructure in the coastal zone and the ecosystems they depend upon. Storm impacts include interactions with sea ice in all potential states: large floes, shore-fast ice, and incipient sea-ice in frazil or slush state. In particular, sea ice can act to enhance or mitigate the impacts of adverse marine state, even as the event is occurring. Such occurrences should be part of a forecasting regimen, however scientific work has not been conducted on this phenomena, with the result that a physical model describing the formation of slush ice berms does not exist. To arrive at such a model requires visits to and input...
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One of the major challenges in understanding changes in coastal processes in western Alaska is the lack of measured ocean data in the region. This project leveraged existing human resources, and physical and computational infrastructure to collect and disseminate oceanographic observations in the Bering Sea. From instrument restoration, transport and deployment, through data streaming, recovery and dissemination, this project considered the end to end supports necessary to gather, promote, and serve oceanographic data along Alaska’s Western coast. Real‐time sea‐state conditions were transmitted via both high and low bandwidth sites, directly benefited emergency managers and local communities, particularly in dealing...
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Developing consistent and repeatable broad-scale methods for biodiversity modelling is an important goal to address as habitat loss, fragmentation and environmental degradation threaten our ability to maintain ecosystem and species diversity levels. Geospatial reviews of biodiversity monitoring have identified ecological indicators for the indirect mapping of species richness and ecosystem components modelling the processes controlling species distribution gradients. The goal of our research is to advance broad-scale biomonitoring by demonstrating how landscape-scale environmental indices can be used to model regional ecosystem and species diversity of British Columbia (BC), Canada. We meet our ecosystem-modelling...
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