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News Release 17-018
NSF announces new Long-Term Ecological Research sites off Alaska, New England coasts
Scientists will expand research on ocean food webs in ecosystems that include recreational and commercial fisheries
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Scientists at the Northern Gulf of Alaska LTER site conduct research off the coast of Alaska.
Credit: Sarah Thornton, UAF
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Researchers at the Northeast U.S. Shelf LTER site deploy instruments off the coast of Massachusetts.
Credit: Sean Whelan, WHOI
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Alewives, a species of river herring, make their way from the Atlantic Ocean to a pond on land.
Credit: Andrew Jones, WHOI
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Researchers at the Northern Gulf of Alaska LTER site will study the gulf from aboard the Sikuliaq.
Credit: Mark Teckenbrock
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A subarctic copepod species is one of the keystone zooplankton species in the Gulf of Alaska.
Credit: Russ Hopcroft, UAF
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View of a diatom chain through an automated submersible microscope operating off Massachusetts.
Credit: Heidi Sosik, WHOI
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