Rolf Gradinger

by buzzbizz | Jan 5, 2014 | Bering Sea Project

Rolf
Gradinger
University of Alaska Fairbanks

Rolf Gradinger is an Professor of Oceanography and Associate Dean at the University of Alaska Fairbanks School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences. During his Masters thesis work at the University of Kiel, Germany, he focused on phytoplankton species distribution patterns in the Greenland Sea (completed 1986). His PhD thesis (also Kiel University) focused on the functional role of heterotrophic nanoflagellates in the Arctic (completed 1999).

During his Post-doc period he started to work on Arctic and Antarctic sea ice communities –- a focus he has kept until today. Since 2001, he has worked at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and was involved in various Arctic research initiatives, including the Shelf-Basin Interaction Study or the Arctic Ocean Diversity project. Rolf's involvement in the Bering Sea Project is through joint work with Bodil Bluhm, Katrin Iken and University of Alaska graduate students on the role of sea ice algae for herbivorous plankton and benthos in the Bering Sea.

Jacqueline Grebmeier

by buzzbizz | Jan 5, 2014 | Bering Sea Project

Jacqueline
Grebmeier
University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science

Jacqueline Grebmeier is a Research Professor and a biological oceanographer at the Maryland Center for Environmental Science Chesapeake Biological Laboratory. She is the US delegate to the International Arctic Science Committee, a current member of the US Polar Research Board of the National Academies, and served formerly as a Commissioner of the US Arctic Research Commission following appointment by President Clinton. She has contributed to international and national science planning efforts including service on the steering committee for US efforts during International Polar Year.

Over the last 20 years she has participated in more than 35 oceanographic expeditions on both US and foreign vessels, many as Chief Scientist. She is the overall project lead scientist for the US Western Arctic Shelf-Basin Interactions project, one of the largest US funded global change studies now underway in the Arctic.

Her research includes studies of pelagic-benthic coupling in marine systems, benthic carbon cycling, benthic faunal population structure, and polar ecosystem health. She has published in many peer-reviewed scientific papers. Her role in many international research projects includes coordination of benthic biological and sediment tracer studies and analysis of ecosystem status and trends on Arctic continental shelves. A recent study in which she was lead author was published in Science and provides some of the first direct evidence for biological community responses to warming and oceanographic shifts in the Bering Sea ecosystem. Dr. Grebmeier has also served as editor of several books and journal special issues.

Rodger Harvey

by buzzbizz | Jan 5, 2014 | Bering Sea Project

Rodger
Harvey
Old Dominion University

No bio available.

Alan Haynie

by buzzbizz | Jan 5, 2014 | Bering Sea Project

Alan
Haynie
NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center

Alan is an economist for NOAA Fisheries at the Alaska Fisheries Science Center’s Economic and Social Science Research Program in Seattle. Alan’s research is focused on understanding and predicting how fishers respond to various impacts on fisheries, including the creation of marine protected areas, changes in market structure, and climate change. Alan has worked on the Bering Sea pollock fishery, the Bering Sea-Aleutian Islands flatfish fishery, and the Alaska sablefish fishery. As part of the Bering Sea Project, Alan will expand current models of fisher behavior to make predictions about how the pollock fishery will adjust to future changes in climate. Similar models will also be applied to the different gear types that fish for Pacific cod in the Bering Sea. Alan was an undergraduate at Stanford University and completed his PhD in economics at the University of Washington in 2005. 

Kate Hedström

by buzzbizz | Jan 5, 2014 | Bering Sea Project

Kate
Hedström
University of Alaska Fairbanks

Kate Hedström has been living in Fairbanks, Alaska since 2001, where she works at the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center. She received her BA in Physics at UCSD and stayed on for a PhD at Scripps. She became interested in the ocean by living near it in San Diego and also through Myrl Hendershot's introductory physical oceanography class. She has been working with numerical models of the ocean since she left Scripps, especially those in the ROMS family. Her current focus of interest are the waters off Alaska including sea ice, tides, and ecosystem dynamics.

Ron Heintz

by buzzbizz | Jan 5, 2014 | Bering Sea Project

Ron
Heintz
NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center

No bio available.