Photo of an oceanographic instrument being deployed off a research vessel in the Bering Sea. It is surprisingly sunny and calm.
Today we are running seawater samples from the Fall Bering Sea #EcoFOCI mooring cruise. #FieldworkFriday 🧪🌊🦑
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M2 is a a long-term biophysical monitoring site in the southeastern #BeringSea and led by the #EcoFOCI group at #NOAA. 🧪🌊🦑🛟
2021 was not the typical year for this seasonally deployed surface mooring...
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We are unloading the #NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson after the #BeringSea mooring cruise. 🧪🌊🦑 #EcoFOCI
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Sea ice observed in the Chukchi Sea from the research vessel Sikuliaq. The ice was fairly small, quite dirty, and without marine mammal sightings but it was ice none-the-less with perhaps 10% coverage.
Map of observing stations visited during the Arctic Collaborative Cruise in the Pacific Arctic Region during August 2025.
#SKQ202515s completed sampling the Icy Cape line! 🙌 This is in the Utoqaq region in the Chukchi Sea off northwestern Alaska. #AlaskaSky #Sikuliaq 🧪🌊🦑🐻❄️
📸 C. McFarland
🗺️ #EcoFOCI
A scientist is setting up an oceanographic sediment trap. This device is left in the ocean for a year to collect particles falling towards the seafloor.
#SKQ202515s turned around the biophysical mooring array in the northern #BeringSea! 🙌 M8 is a long term monitoring site led by #NOAA #EcoFOCI and collects information on physics, chemistry, #eDNA, and marine mammals. 🧪🌊🦑🐋🧬🐻❄️
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#Arctic Collaborative cruise projects! #SKQ202515s 🧪🌊🦑🐻❄️
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🦀 Arctic Marine Biodiversity Observing Network #AMBON
🦪 Distributed Biological Observatory #DBO
🐟 NOAA Ecosystems & Fisheries Oceanography Investigations #EcoFOCI
🐋 Chukchi Ecosystem Observatory #CEO
Map of EcoFOCI long-term observations across Alaska’s large marine ecosystems, including observation types and years deployed. Uncrewed systems (e.g., gliders and floats) are not included. Ice extents in 2012 (an extensive ice year) and 2018 (the lowest ice extent on record) are indicated. EcoFOCI is a partnership between two NOAA laboratories, the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory and the Alaska Fisheries Science Center. The core of the program comprises long-term observations from the NOAA Research biophysical mooring array (25+ years) and work on the NOAA Fisheries ichthyo- and zooplankton collections (35+ years), which provide critical measurements for detecting and understanding ecosystem changes. The program was established in 1984 to examine the physical and biological factors that affect the pollock fishery in Alaska. Since that time, the program has evolved to meet emerging scientific questions and needs of NOAA, stakeholders, and communities.
#NOAA #EcoFOCI has a long and extensive record providing information for fisheries in Alaska’s large marine ecosystems. #DY2504 🧪🌊🦑
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The research is led by the #NOAA Ecosystems Fisheries Oceanography Coordinated Investigations #EcoFOCI program. #DY2504 🧪🌊🦑
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An oceanographer watches the landscape change between the Bering Sea and the Gulf of Alaska.
This week we are running seawater samples collected in the #BeringSea. @urigso.bsky.social student Fiona sailed on the NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson for our group. 🧪🌊🦑
We partner with #NOAA #EcoFOCI to add #OceanAcidification observations to their surveys. www.ecofoci.noaa.gov/bering-sea
📸 C. Berchok
Krauss, Michael, Gary Holton, Jim Kerr, and Colin T. West. 2011. Indigenous Peoples and Languages of Alaska. Fairbanks and Anchorage: Alaska Native Language Center and UAA Institute of Social and Economic Research.
NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson
We are on Sugpiaq land this week to unload the #NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson after #DY2410 🌊🧪🦑
The research cruise was led by the Ecosystem Fisheries Coordinated Investigations #EcoFOCI program with the Alaska Fisheries Science Center and Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory.
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