Science & Data

A Student's Perspective.

A Student's Perspective.

When I began my internship with NOAA, I never anticipated an opportunity to actually ride out on one of their research vessels. It would feel like a dream to wake up and see a different island every morning, each with its own distinctive substrate, lined along its shores, that depict its geological history,...

Alaska is not renowned for its good weather but there are exceptions! Older age classes of fish (age-1s) are still resident in the nearshore embayments around Kodiak Island, but they are tricky to sample-----they’re generally too deep for the seine and too shallow for trawl nets.  ...

An example of the data we can view on the site, showing one day of temperature (top) and salinity (bottom) measurements from mid-July. There are multiple sensors for measuring temperature on each saildrone, providing us with air (orange) and seawater temperature measurements at different places in the...

A Student's Perspective.

Here are NOAA Fisheries biologists Chris Magel (left) and Paul Iseri (right) proudly showing off a their catch of age-0 Pacific cod at a Kodiak site covered in dense kelp (Laminaria spp.). Juvenile fish are identified, sorted, counted and then measured. We just got back from Kodiak, Alaska...

A Student's Perspective.

The trackline of the Chukchi Sea survey planned for the first saildrone (blue lines).  During the survey, the saildrone will also stop to spend some extra time conducting “mini-surveys” at the location of three mooring (orange squares) that were deployed last summer. After two weeks and...

A Student's Perspective.