Bering Strait -- A Vital and Variable Forcing of the Western Arctic Shelves, Slopes and Basings

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Media sampled/studied/modelled

Seawater/suspended particulate matter

Regions studied

Keywords

Updated 2000-06-30

Maintain oceanographic moorings in the Bering Strait to monitor heat and mass flux into the Arctic Ocean; moorings will be augmented by nutrient samplers in 2001.

This is not a National Implementation Plan (NIP) project

http://www.apl.washington.edu

Status: Ongoing
Project time span: 1999 - 2008
Data collection: 1999 - 2008
Data processing: 1999 - 2008
Data reporting: 1999 - 2008

Contact information

Contact person: Knut Aagaard
Address: Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington 1013 NE 40th St. Seattle WA 98105-6698 USA
Phone: +1-206-543-8942
Fax: +1-206-543-3521
Email: ude.notgnihsaw.lpa@draagaa

Parameters and Media

Parameter groups measured/observed/modelled

Media sampled/studied/modelled

Seawater/suspended particulate matter

Additional information or further specification of types of data / information collected, species / tissues / organs sampled, etc.

Parameters measured: Currents, conductivity, temperature (nutrients to be added later)

Geography

Regions studied: Bering Strait; Bering Strait

Data availability

Are data archived or planned to be archived at an AMAP Thematic Data Centre?: no

Samples/specimens archived in specimen banks?: No

Methods & Procedures

Not specified

Additional Information

Is this a bi- AND multi-lateral project (i.e. a project involving cooperation between different countries)?: No