Arctic Team

Who we are

Current Team Members

Catherine Berchok
Jessica Crance
Dana Wright
Brynn Kimber
Eric Braen
Stephanie Grassia
Daniel Woodrich
Sophia Wagner

Past Team Members

  • Greta Weise
  • Ildiko Kremper
  • Jessica Knoth
  • Arial Brewer
  • Jenna Harlacher
  • Eliza Ives
  • Alexandra Ulmke
  • Megan Wood
  • Julie Mocklin
  • Linda Vate Bratstrom
  • Holly Calahan
  • Jessica Thompson

Post Docs

  • Ellen Garland

Past Interns and Volunteers

CICOES: Sophia Wagner (2023), Cole Watson (2020), Tarenina Max (??)
NOAA Hollings: Ildiko Kremper (2020), Srishti Dasarathy (2015), Rebecca Leitt (2013), Dana Wright (2011)
SAFS/MML: Max Van Gelder (2020)
NERTO: Daryin Medley (2021)
Volunteers: Nicholas Tucker(??), Cole Watson (??), Eric Braen (??)|

Where we work

We work in the US Arctic, from the Aleutian Islands and Bering Sea north to the shelf waters of the eastern Chukchi and western Beaufort Seas, as well as the Chukchi Borderlands. We also work in the northern Gulf of Alaska, and have had short-term projects in Behm Canal (near Ketchikan, Alaska).

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The research we do

We primarily deploy two types of passive acoustic sensors:

  • Recorders deployed on subsurface moorings throughout the Bering, Beaufort, and Chukchi Seas, as well as in the Gulf of Alaska. They autonomously record underwater sounds for a year at a time.
  • Sonobuoys for shorter-term, real-time, passive acoustic monitoring from vessels.

We also occasionally use towed arrays and have deployed sonobuoys from aircraft.

Locations of all long-term passive acoustic recorder moorings