Bering Sea Ecosystem Collection

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An informal network of people who communicate about research in Alaska's seas

The Sea Ice for Walrus Outlook (SIWO), and activity of the SEARCH Sea Ice Outlook, is a resource for Alaska Native subsistence hunters, coastal communities, and others interested in sea ice and walrus.

The Directory of Arctic Researchers, funded by the National Science Foundation, contains the names, addresses, science specialties, and current research of 4130 arctic researchers. It aids networking between individual investigators, institutions, funding agencies, and arctic stakeholders to facilitate arctic research and education efforts.

The COSEE Network excels at forming partnerships between ocean scientists and formal middle and high school teachers. The Ocean Science Education Institute (OSEI) from COSEE-New England and COSEE-Ocean Systems workshops are just two of many examples.

K-12 science and mathematics teachers, teachers' aides and university faculty working together to learn about the nature of scientific inquiry and the variability of lake ice, snow, and conductive heat flow in the State of Alaska. Various education modules available, including the new "Snow Module."

Found on page 17 of pdf. Developed by Canadian ice researchers and lovingly named by ALISON participants, the TWITT is the ingenious instrument for measuring ice thickness without making a mess of the study site. Although it requires basic shop equipment/know-how to build, the cost of materials per TWITT is inexpensive.

Educational videos aimed at Middle School and High School students with topics of: Elder's Knowledge, Sea Ice Ecosystem, and Ringed Seals on Sea Ice.

These stories discuss the unique property of ice - that it floats in liquid water. Students in grades 4-5 learn why this occurs; younger students focus on real-world examples and how ice is necessary for life in the polar regions.

For the International Polar Year, we gave polar scientists cameras and blogging tools and asked them to document their field work. Follow along on their adventures and see what it's like to be a research scientist in the Arctic or Antarctica.

Meet marine biologist George Matsumoto from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute and learn about the floating ecosystems that thrive around icebergs in Antarctic waters.

Arctic Climate Modeling Program lessons

This animation provides a close perspective of the relationship between ice and solar reflectivity. As glaciers, the polar caps, and icebergs (shown here) melt, less sunlight gets reflected into space. Instead, the oceans and land absorb the light, thus raising the overall temperature and adding energy to a vicious circle.

Education unit exploring water in the form of ice. (NASA MESSENGER program)

The goal of the Simplified Image Management and Processing Learning Environment for Science (SIMPLE Science) project is to help overcome barriers to use of image processing and analysis (IPA) in K-12 classrooms.

Website features a list of 11 videos related to the Bering Sea (including a short video from St. Paul Island).

SpongeBob SquarePants "Plankton Song" video. It's a fact-filled fish song!

he Bering Ecosystem Study (BEST) is an NSF sponsored program that will give researchers an opportunity to gain improved understanding of the linkages between variations in Bering Sea ice cover and the biology of the waters and benthos beneath. This project will require extensive measurements and analysis of water properties and chemistry, ice cover properties and biomass and related processes.

Drifter based view of juvenile salmon dispersal

An extensive subsurface oceanographic mooring array was deployed just south of St. Lawrence Island between September 1998 and September 1999 to test theoretical ideas regarding the fate of dense winter water generated within the polynya. The data presented here are primarily from this effort.

Satellite-tracked oceanographic drifters provide an informative (and nearly realtime) depiction of surface circulation that complements other measurements collected by shipboard sampling, instrumented moorings. and numerical models.

Our focus in this and previous drifter studies in the Bering Sea has been on the nearshore circulation. Most cruises aboard large research vessels are limited to water depths greater than 20m (66 feet)

Goals: To understand adaptation by demonstrating how plankton use structures and surface area to stay afloat in the photic zone; to understand micron, a metric unit of measurement, and how mathematics (surface area) play a role in plankton survival.

After being introduced to an oceanic food web students will complete the experiment hypothesizing what could be found in and information gained from sea lion scat.

"Food Chain" by Kathleen Carroll. Follow the food chain among plants and animals in the ocean and in a fast food restaurant. How might this transfer take place in a forest? All this answered in the song.

Pilot program for students on the topics of the cryosphere, elementary (K-4), and the hydrosphere. This webpage also provides a link to view other ESSEA modules by topic.