TITLE: Environmental Variability, Bowhead Whale Distributions, and Inupiat Subsistence Whaling - Whaling Linkages and Resilience of an Alaskan Coastal System

AUTHORS:

Dr. Carin Ashjian, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Phone: 508-289-3457
e-mail:cashjian@whoi.edu

Dr. Stepehn Okkonen, University of Alaska, Fairbanks
Phone: 907-283-3234
email:okkonen@alaska.net

Dr. Robert G. Campbell, University of Rhode Island,
Phone: 401-874-6692
e-mail:campbell@gso.uri.edu

Dr. Evelyn Sherr, Oregon State University
Phone: 541-737-4369
e-mail:sherre@coas.oregonstate.edu

PI: Dr. Carin Ashjian, WHOI

NSF GRANTS: 0436131,0436110,0436166,0435956.

DATE SET OVERVIEW:
This table represents the event log for the 2005 field season for the SNACS study conducted in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas, off the coast of Barrow, Alaska. Table headings,Variables,legend: Local date, Station/Line # (uw = underway, s=start, e=end), local time (Alaska Daylight Time), Decimal Latitude (deg), Decimal Longitude (deg), Instrument(ACR=Acrobat Water Sampler,ADCP= Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler, CTD= Conductivity, Temperature, Depth Profiler, VPR= Video Plankton Recorder,Double Net = Bongo Net, oblique haul,Ring Net = single net, double oblique haul),Cast #, Bottom Depth (meters,feet), Instrument Depth (meters/feet), Remarks.