Continuing Projects

Gill & Stakes (UC Santa Cruz & MBARI)
The geological and geochemical development of Endeavour Axial Ridge Volcano

Sloan (Colorado School of Mines)
Are in situ ocean hydrates analogs of laboratory hydrates?

Syms, Carr, & Levin (University of California - Santa Cruz & NMFS)
Conservation of nearshore fishes: The role of movement, habitat structure, and density in determining effectiveness of Marine Protected Areas

Wilcock, Brown & Hilton (University of Washington, Scripps)
High-resolution measurements of temporal variability in fluid fluxes and chemistry from cold seeps: First deployments of a suite of new instruments.

Smith University of Hawaii at Manoa)
Succession and seep affinities of large-whale, kelp and wood fall communities on the California slope

New Projects

 Anderson (San Diego State University)
The roles of predators and habitat in patterns of mortality of the temperate reef fish

Baco-Taylor & Shank (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Population genetics of Gulf of Alaska seamount invertebrates: A multi-species approach

Keller, Duncan, & Fisk (Oregon State University)
Origin and Evolution of Western Gulf of Alaska Seamounts

Rathburn, Levin, & Gieskes (Indiana State University, Scripps)
Biological response to catastrophic disturbance on the Aleutian Margin, Gulf of Alaska

Stone, Heifetz, Woodby, & Reynolds (NMFS, AK Dept. Fish & Game, & University. Of AK Fairbanks)
Distribution of deep-sea corals and associated communities in the Aleutian Islands

Yogodzinski, Keleman, Scholl, & Singer (University South Carolina, WHOI, Moss Landing Marine Labs, & Univ. Wisconsin)
Primitive plutonism in an island arc: A study of deep submarine canyons in the Western Aleutians

Developmental Projects

Edwards (San Diego State University)
The roles of latitude and ecotypic adaptation on the demography of subtidal kelp populations in the northeast Pacific: a pilot study in Kasitsna Bay, Alaska

Fryer & McMurtry (University of Hawaii at Manoa)
Dating the Ugamak Landslide

Highsmith, Konar, Reynolds, & Wheat (WC&PRURC)
Cold-Water Diving Program - Kasitsna Bay Laboratory

Klinger, Gunderson, Palsson, & Greene (University of Washington, Washington Dept. Of Fisheries & Wildlife, Moss Landing Marine Labs)
The Pacific Northwest Initiative