Category: Arctic Beringia
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Point Hope, AK Science Outreach Visit
WCS Fisheries Ecologist Kevin Fraley and other WCS staff members traveled to Point Hope, Alaska to conduct interviews with subsistence fishers and hunters, and to present results from a study of the ecology of the nearby Cape Thompson coastal lagoons (photo above). In 2018 and 2021, WCS Fisheries crews visited five lagoons in the area…
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Winter 2022-2023 Arctic Slope Fish Ecology Fieldwork
Background In April 2022 (late winter), the tracking of scavenging activities of a GPS-collared wolverine on Alaska’s North Slope led WCS researchers to a macabre scene in an ice-encased river pool. More than 100 overwintering Arctic grayling and Dolly Varden had perished and their carcasses lay scattered on the river bottom or trapped in ice.…
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2022 Lagoons Field Season
A two-person WCS field crew conducted visits to Krusenstern, Aukulak, and Kotlik Lagoons for fisheries monitoring and research activities in June and August 2022. June During the June trip, all lagoons were open to the sea and ice chunks clogged the Chukchi Sea coast and lagoon openings due to a late spring. Biting insects were…
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Otolith Microchemistry Labwork
Lagoons Fish Otolith Microchemistry Labwork 60+ otoliths (fish earbones) collected from Cape Krusenstern and Cape Thompson lagoons from 2015-2021 were prepped at the USFWS lab in Fairbanks, AK for aging and otolith microchemistry. Fish species included sheefish, humpback whitefish, broad whitefish, least cisco, and even a couple Pacific herring and Arctic grayling. First, otoliths were…
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2021 Lagoons Field Season
A three-person WCS field crew visited Krusenstern, Aukulak, and Kotlik Lagoons in Cape Krusenstern National Monument for fisheries monitoring and research activities in June and August 2021. Additionally, a 2-man crew visited Atosik, Mapsorak, and Singoalik Lagoons in Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge in July to conduct similar activities. June (Cape Krusenstern) During our June…
Arctic Beringia Fish Ecology 