Research Summaries

Back Collaborative Research: Environmental Variability, Bowhead Whale Distributions, and Inupiat Subsistence Whaling-Linkage and Resilience of an Alaskan Coastal System

Fiscal Year 2007
Division Graduate School of Engineering & Applied Science
Department Oceanography
Investigator(s) Maslowski, Wieslaw
Sponsor National Science Foundation (NSF)
Summary The main hypothesis of this interdisciplinary project is that variation in environmental conditions may impact the success of the annual bowhead hunt through alteration of whale distribution and behavior, and through changes in wind patterns and ice extent that affect Native whalers' access to the whales. We propose a comprehensive study of this Alaska coastal system to quantify whale-environment linkages and to understand how physical-biological coupling influences bowhead whale behavioral ecology and, ultimately, Alaska Native subsistence harvests.
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