| NSL # | STUDY TITLE | PLANNING AREA | PROJECT CONTACT | PARTNERS | |
| PLANNED NEW STARTS | |||||
| AK-22-01 | Lower Cook Inlet Fish and Invertebrate Community Composition, Distribution, and Density Cook Inlet | Cook Inlet | |||
| AK-22-02 | Collaborative synthesis to understand the impacts of vessel presence and sound on the marine environment and subsistence activities in the Pacific Arctic | Chukchi Sea Beaufort Sea Bering Strait |
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| AK-22-03 | Using Multiple Tools to Assess Marine Mammal Distribution, Numbers, and Habitat use in Cook Inlet | Cook Inlet | |||
| AK-22-04 | Cook Inlet Physical Oceanography: Synthesis and Modeling | Cook Inlet | |||
| AK-22-05 | Linking pelagic and nearshore benthic ecosystems in lower Cook Inlet and Kachemak Bay through meroplankton: Collaborating with the Gulf Watch Alaska Monitoring Program in Cook Inlet | Cook Inlet | |||
| AK-22-06 | Retrospective Synthesis of Historical Alaska OCS Oil and Gas Activities | All Alaska Planning Areas | |||
| AK-22-07 | Alaska Assessment for Cetaceans and Other Marine Mammals (ACOMM) | All Alaska Planning Areas | |||
| *Note: The procurement of any study is contingent upon availability of funding | |||||
| ONGOING STUDIES | |||||
| Biology | |||||
| AK-21-06 | GPS Tagging of Seabirds to Obtain Areas of Foraging Aggregations and Forage Fish Schools in Lower Cook Inlet | Cook Inlet | Burril | USGS | |
| AK-21-03 | Resource Areas to Support Oil Spill Risk Analysis (OSRA) and National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) Needs in the Cook Inlet Region | Cook Inlet | Burril | ADF&G | |
| AK-20-11 | The Impact of Marine Fish Communities on Red-throated Loon Productivity in the Beaufort Sea | Beaufort | Raymond | USGS | |
| AK-20-10 | Monitoring the Recovery of Seabirds and Forage Fish Following a Major Ecosystem Disruption in Lower Cook Inlet (LCI) | Cook Inlet | Burril | USGS | |
| NT-20-10 | A sustainable, integrated AMBON in the US Arctic | Beaufort Chukchi |
Bonsell | USGS | |
| AK-19-02-15 | Understanding Spatial Dynamics and Movement of Pacific Halibut (Hippoglossus stenolepis) in the Northern Bering Sea | Chukchi Bering | Burril | CMI | |
| AK-19-02-14 | Delineating Species and Stock Boundaries in the Arctic-Bering Cisco Species Pair | Beaufort Chukchi |
Bonsell | CMI | |
| AK-19-02-13 | Harnessing the Power of eDNA as a Real-time Assessment tool of Nearshore Arctic Marine Communities | Beaufort | Raymond | CMI | |
| AK-19-02-10 | Are expanding Pink Salmon populations in the Arctic produced from regional watersheds? | Beaufort Chukchi |
Burril | CMI | |
| AK-20-07 | Early Detection Plan for Marine Non-native Species on the Arctic Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) | Beaufort Chukchi |
Burril | Smithsonian | |
| AK-19-02-02 | Kelp Restoration in the Boulder Patch | Beaufort | Bonsell | CMI | |
| AK-19-02-03 | Utilization of the Under-ice Habitat by Arctic Cod in the Western Arctic Ocean: A Multidisciplinary Collaborative Study | Beaufort Chukchi |
Burril | CMI | |
| AK-19-01 | Impacts of Sedimentation and Drivers of Variability in the Boulder Patch Community, Beaufort Sea | Beaufort | Burril | UT; UAF | |
| AK-18-01 | Environmental Resource Areas: Developing Products to Support Oil-Spill Risk Analysis (OSRA) and National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) | All Alaska Planning Areas | Burril | USGS | |
| AK-17-03 | Marine Bird Distribution and Abundance in Offshore Waters | Beaufort Chukchi Cook Inlet |
Raymond | USFWS | |
| AK-16-07 | Arctic Integrated Ecosystem Survey, Phase II | Beaufort Chukchi |
Burril | NOAA; USFWS |
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| Fates and Effects | |||||
| AK-21-02 | Synthesis of Contaminants Data for Cook Inlet: Evaluation of Existing Data as "Baseline Conditions" and Recommendations for Further Monitoring | Cook Inlet | Smith | CIRCAC | |
| AK-20-05 | Improvements to the Oil Spill Risk Analysis (OSRA) Input Quality Assurance/Quality Control (QA/QC) and Validation | All Planning Areas | Crowley | ||
| AK-19-02-16 | Biological effects of Cook Inlet crude oil degradation products and suspect screening of oxidized polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) | Cook Inlet | Smith | CMI | |
| AK-19-02-11 | Investigating the Impacts of Oil Exposure and Changing Snow Cover on Sea Ice Microbial Communities | Beauforrt | Raymond | CMI | |
| AK-19-02-12 | Hydrocarbon Oxidation Product in Cook Inlet: Formation and Bioaccumulation in Mussels | Cook Inlet | Smith | CMI | |
| AK-18-x11 | Hydrocarbon Seeps in the Lower Cook Inlet, Gulf of Alaska, Chukchi Sea and Beaufort Sea OCS Planning Areas | All Alaska Planning Areas | Foreman | UAF | |
| AK-16-04 | Updates to the Fault Tree for Oil-Spill Occurrence Estimators | Beaufort Chukchi | Crowley | ||
| Information Management | |||||
| AK-21-x07 | Feasibility Study for Renewable Energy Technologies in Alaska Offshore Waters | All Alaska Planning Areas | Burril | NREL | |
| AK-20-02 | Alaska Marine Science Symposium | All Planning Areas | Burril | UAF | |
| AK-19-02-09 | Arctic Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Structure Data Analysis and Synthesis | Beaufort Chukchi |
Bonsell | CMI | |
| AK-19-02 | Alaska Coastal Marine Institute | All Alaska Planning Areas | Crowley | CMI | |
| AK-16-02 | Collaboration with North Pacific Research Board (NPRB) Arctic Marine Research Program | Beaufort Chukchi |
Raymond | NPRB | |
| Marine Mammals and Protected Species | |||||
| AK-21-04 | Bowhead Whale Migration Patterns along the Alaska Beaufort Shelf in During a Period of Rapid Environmental Change | Beaufort | Crowley | UAF | |
| AK-21-01 | Winter Ringed Seal Density within Beaufort Sea Oil and Gas Project Areas | Beaufort | Raymond | ADF&G | |
| AK-20-08 | Comprehensive Synthesis of Impacts to Marine Mammals from Oil and Gas Activities in the Alaska Outer Continental Shelf (OCS), 2000–2020 | Beaufort Chukchi, Cook Inlet |
Crowley | ||
| AK-20-04 | Quantifying Sea Otter Abundance, Distribution, and Foraging Intake in Cook Inlet Alaska, Using Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) | Cook Inlet | Raymond | USGS | |
| AK-20-01 | Cook Inlet Beluga Acoustic Monitoring in Lower Cook Inlet (LCI) Rivers | Cook Inlet | Burril | NOAA | |
| AK-19-02-05 | Evaluating Novel Assessment Approaches for Coastal Ice Seal Haulout Areas and Behavior in the Alaskan Beaufort Sea | Beaufort | Raymond | CMI | |
| AK-Ofc-01 | NOAA-BOEM Partnership: Range-Wide Distribution of Cook Inlet Beluga Whales (Delphinapterus leucas) in the Winter | Cook Inlet | Bonsell | NOAA | |
| Physical Oceanography | |||||
| AK-20-03 | Update of River Overflood on Sea Ice and Strudel Scour Database | Beaufort | Smith | ||
| AK-19-02-08 | Exploring radium isotopes as tracers of groundwater inputs, flushing rates, and produced water in Cook Inlet | Cook Inlet | Crowley | CMI | |
| AK-19-02-04 | Western Beaufort and Chukchi Sea Surface Current Analysis | Beaufort Chukchi |
Crowley | CMI | |
| AK-19-03 | Landfast Ice in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas and Under Ice Circulation Processes on the Beaufort Sea Shelf | Beaufort Chukchi |
Smith | UAF | |
| AK-17-01 | Wave and Hydrodynamic Observations and Modeling in the Nearshore Beaufort Sea | Beaufort | Crowley | ||
| Social Systems | |||||
| AK-21-05 | Coastal and Submerged Historic Properties and Precontact Sites on the Alaska Outer Continental Shelf | All Alaska Planning Areas | Brooks | ||
| AK-20-x09 | Kenai Peninsula Borough Socioeconomic Profile, 2008 to 2020 | Cook Inlet | Brooks | ||
| AK-20-06 | Subsistence Harvest and Iñupiaq Knowledge of Beluga Whales for Kaktovik, Alaska | Beaufort | Brooks | ADF&G | |
| AK-19-05 | Monitoring of the Cross Island Subsistence Whale Hunt for Effects from Liberty DPP | Beaufort | Brooks | ||
| AK-15-05 | Traditional Knowledge Implementation: Accessing Arctic Community Panels of Subject Matter Experts | Beaufort Chukchi |
Brooks | NSB | |
| RECENTLY COMPLETED | |||||
| AK-19-08 | Oil Spill Impact Literature Synthesis: Crude and Refined Spills 1,000–20,000 bbls | All Alaska Planning Areas | Crowley | ||
| AK-19-07 | Model-based essential fish habitat (EFH) descriptions for Arctic cod, saffron cod and snow crab in the Alaskan Arctic | Beaufort Chukchi |
Burril | UAF | |
| AK-19-02-07 | Ocean Migration and Behavior of Steelhead Kelts in the Northern Gulf of Alaska, Examined with Satellite Telemetry | Cook Inlet | Burril | CMI | |
| AK-18-x12 | Oil Spill Occurrence Estimators for Onshore and Offshore Crude and Refined Oil Spills on the Alaska North Slope and Cook Inlet, Alaska | Beaufort Chukchi Cook Inlet | Crowley | ||
| AK-17-x11 | Nearshore fish surveys in the Beaufort Sea | Beaufort | Burril | USGS | |
| AK-17-02 | Wave Energy Converter Impact Assessment | Gulf of Alaska | Crowley | UAF | |
| AK-16-09 | Updating Status and Trends of Seabirds and Forage Fish in Lower Cook Inlet | Cook Inlet | Raymond | USGS | |
| AK-16-05 | Community Based Monitoring: LEO Network | Beaufort Chukchi Cook Inlet |
Brooks | ANTHC | |
| AK-16-01 | Aerial Surveys of Arctic Marine Mammals (ASAMM) - Personnel and Aircraft Needs | Beaufort Chukchi |
Raymond | NMML; USDOI; NBC | |
| AK-15-07 | Field Evaluation of an Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) for Studying Cetacean Distribution, Density, and Habitat Use in the Arctic | Beaufort Chukchi |
Raymond | NMML; NSWCDD | |
| AK-15-01 | Initiating an Arctic Marine Biodiversity Observing Network (AMBON) for Ecosystem Monitoring | Chukchi | Bonsell | NOPP; NOAA | |
| NT-13-05 | Marine Arctic Ecosystems Study (MARES): A Multi-Agency NOPP Partnership | Beaufort Chukchi |
Crowley | NOPP | |
| AK-13-03-24 | Microbial Biodegradation of Alaska North Slope Crude Oil in Arctic Marine Sediments | Beaufort Chukchi | Raymond | CMI | |
| AK-13-03-23 | High-frequency Characterization of the Physicochemical Parameters of Cook Inlet, Alaska | Cook Inlet | Crowley | CMI | |
| AK-13-03-22 | Nearshore Food Web Structure on the OCS in Cook Inlet, Alaska | Cook Inlet | Coon | CMI | |
| AK-13-03-17 | Measuring Wave Force along Alaska's Coastal Sea Ice | Chukchi | Crowley | CMI | |
| RESEARCH PARTNERSHIPS | |||||
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U.S. Department of The Interior