Habitat Assessment and Marine Chemistry
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Habitat Program Manager
Jeep Rice
Auke Bay Laboratories
Alaska Fisheries Science Center, NOAA Fisheries
Ted Stevens Marine Research Institute
17109 Pt Lena Loop Rd
Juneau AK 99801
(907) 789-6020
Jeep.Rice@noaa.gov
The Habitat Assessment and Marine Chemistry Program conducts
research on chemical and ecological processes that occur in marine,
tidal, and watershed habitats ranging from the Arctic to the Gulf
of Alaska. This program attempts to assess bioenergetics in
various species and life stages, assess the impact of development and
contaminants on these species and their habitats, and map and evaluate their
habitat quality. The program comprises a mix of chemists and biologists
focused into three project teams:
Nutritional ecology research or bioenergetics,
assesses the nutritional value of forage species, including juvenile salmon, as
measured by changes in lipid class, fatty acid, and caloric composition of
these forage species. The studies seek
to evaluate how habitat quality changes seasonally and spatially by
understanding how prey organisms allocate energy between growth, reproduction,
and fat storage.
Contaminants research quantifies threats from
polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH)
to reproductive, nursery, and feeding habitats for various life stages of salmon, herring,
and other fish species.
Much of this work has focused on understanding the long-term effects of the
Exxon Valdez Oil Spill.
Nearshore habitat research combines habitat mapping
and fish utilization studies to identify use of essential fish habitat.
Additional focus has been on identifying sensitive life stages of forage fish and
chemical or physical impacts of development on the quality of eelgrass and kelp
bed habitats.
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Recent Publications, Poster Presentations, Reports & Activities |
- Ongoing population-level impacts on killer whales Orcinus orca following the 'Exxon Valdez' oil spill in Prince William Sound, Alaska.
MATKIN, C. O., E. L. SAULITIS, G. M. ELLIS, P. OLESIUK, and S. D. RICE.
2008. Ongoing population-level impacts on killer whales Orcinus orca following the 'Exxon Valdez' oil spill in Prince William Sound, Alaska. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 356:269-281.
- Eelgrass habitat and faunal assemblages in the city and borough of Juneau, Alaska.
HARRIS, P. M., A. D. NEFF, S. W. JOHNSON, and J. D. THEDINGA.
2008. Eelgrass habitat and faunal assemblages in the city and borough of Juneau, Alaska. U. S. Dep. Commer., NOAA Tech. Memo., NMFS-AFSC-182, 46 p. (.pdf, 4.67 MB). Online.
- Temporal Stability of Fatty Acids in Herring Hearts
By: JACEK MASELKO, RON HEINTZ, TED OTIS
Conference: Alaska Marine Science Symposium, Anchorage, AK, Jan 2008
(2008 poster, .pdf, 332KB) Online.
- Humpback Whale Predation on Pacific Herring in Southern Lynn Canal: Testing a Top-down Hypothesis
By: JOHN R. MORAN, STANLEY D. RICE, SUZANNE F. TEERLINK
Conference: Alaska Marine Science Symposium, Anchorage, AK, Jan 2008
(2008 poster, .pdf, 210KB) Online.
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Energetic Changes in Coho Smolts Induced by the Presence of the Nematode Parasite Philonema agubernaculum
See the publications and poster databases for additional listings.
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