DBO Core Publications

2026

Ostle, C., Lawlor, K.C., Batten, S.D., Brunetta, M., Cunliffe, M., Davies, C.H., Harper, G.M., Johns, D.G., Robinson, H., Loro, F., Nelson, J., Richardson, A.J., Sastri, A., Wootton, M., Zimmermann, S., Stern-Kluckner, R., 2026. Mega-blooms of the harmful alga Alexandrium catenella in the Bering Sea recorded by the Continuous Plankton Recorder Survey. Harmful Algae, 103194. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hal.2026.103194

2025

Gaffey, C. B., Frey, K. E., Rogan, J., Estes, L., Cooper, L. W., Clement Kinney, J., & Grebmeier, J. M. (2025). Environmental factors associated with fall phytoplankton blooms in the northern Bering and Chukchi Seas. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 130, e2025JC022498, https://doi.org/10.1029/2025JC022498

Iwahara, Y., Matsuno, K., Sekiguchi, K., Sasaki, H., Nakano, T., Nishizawa, B., Uyama, T., Yamaguchi, A., Watanuki, Y., Miyashita, K., and Yoko Mitan (2025). Relationship Between the Distribution of Gray Whales (Eschrichtius robustus) and Two Types of Prey in the Northern Bering and Chukchi Seas. Arctic 78, 236 - 250, https://doi.org/10.14430/arctic83529

Lago, L.S., Pickart, R.S., Lin, P., Bahr, F., Fachon, E., Brosnahan, M.L., Pathare, M., Muhlbach, E., Horn, K., Rajagopalan, A., and Anderson, D.M. (2025). Physical Drivers of a Massive Harmful Algal Bloom in the Northern Bering and Chukchi Seas in Summer 2022. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 130, e2024JC021624, https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JC021624

2024

Wang, Yuanqi, Zhixuan Feng, Peigen Lin, Hongjun Song, Jicai Zhang, Hui Wu, Haiyan Jin, Jianfang Chen, Di Qi, and Jacqueline M. Grebmeier (2024). "Enhanced wind mixing and deepened mixed layer in the Pacific Arctic shelf seas with low summer sea ice." Nature Communications, 15, no. 1: 1-12, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-54733-w

2023

Bai, Y., Sicre, M.-A., Ren, J., Klein, V., Jin, H. and Chen, J., 2023. Latitudinal distribution of biomarkers across the western Arctic Ocean and the Bering Sea: an approach to assess sympagic and pelagic algal production. Biogeosciences Discussions, 2023: 1-34, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-2023-143

Barzola Elizagaray, P., Alberto, M.E., Bageta, C.R., Bevaqua, A., Cecconato, A., Garriga, M., Tirador, M., Nodaro, V., Enrique, M., and Gayá Tosoni, M.V., 2023, Modelo de crecimiento poblacional de morsa del Pacífico (Odobenus rosmarus) tras las disminución del hielo estival en mar de Chukchi por el cambio climático, Revista de Educación Matemática, 38, https://dialnet.unirioja.es/descarga/articulo/8999380.pdf

Charrier, B.R., Danielson, S.L. and Mincks, S.L., 2023. Trait-based assessment of polychaete assemblages distinguishes macrofaunal community structure among four distinct benthic eco-regions on a shallow arctic shelf. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 208: 105240, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2022.105240

Clarke, J.T., Ferguson, M.C., Brower, A.A., Fujioka, E., and Deland, S., 2023, Biologically important areas II for cetaceans in U.S. and adjacent waters - Arctic region, Frontiers in Marine Science, 10, https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2023.1040123

D´Angelo, A., Trenholm, N., Loose, B., Glastra, L., Strock, J. and Kim, J., 2023. Microplastics Distribution within Western Arctic Seawater and Sea Ice, Toxics, 2023, 11, 792, https://doi.org/10.3390/toxics11090792

Frey, K.E, L.N.C. Young, J.C. Comiso, L.V. Stock, L.W. Cooper, and J.M. Grebmeier, 2023, A comprehensive satellite-based assessment across the Pacific Arctic Distributed Biological Observatory shows widespread late-season sea surface warming and sea ice declines with variable influences on primary productivity, PLOS ONE, 18(7), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0287960

García-Reyes, Marisol, Minnett, Peter J., Steele, Michael, Castro, Sandra, Cornillon, Peter, Armstrong, Ed, Vazquez-Cuervo, Jorge, Tsontos, Vardis, Cokelet, Edward, & Wick, Gary A. (2023). 2022 Arctic Saildrone Cruise Report. Zenodo, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7709660

Hubbard KA, Villac MC, Chadwick C, DeSmidt AA, Flewelling L, et al., 2023, Spatiotemporal transitions in Pseudo-nitzschia species assemblages and domoic acid along the Alaska coast. PLoS ONE 18(3): e0282794, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0282794

Juranek, L.W., Hales, B., Beaird, N.L., Goni, M.A., Shroyer, E., Allen, J.G. and White, A.E., 2023. The Importance of Subsurface Productivity in the Pacific Arctic Gateway as Revealed by High Resolution Biogeochemical Surveys. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 128(2): e2022JC019292, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JC019292

Koch, C.W., Brown, T.A., Amiraux, R. et al. Year-round utilization of sea ice-associated carbon in Arctic ecosystems. Nat Commun 14, 1964 (2023), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37612-8

Meadows, C.A., Grebmeier, J.M., and Kidwell, S.M., 2023, Arctic bivalve dead-shell assemblages as high temporal- and spatial- resolution archives of ecological regime change in response to climate change., in Conservation Palaeobiology of Marine Ecosystems: Concepts and Applications (London: Special Publications, Geological Society, London)

Moore, S.E., 2023, Chasing inter-species communication: what marine mammals are telling us about our oceans, ICES Journal of Marine Science, fsad030, https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsad030

Pickart, R.S., Lin, P., Bahr, F., McRaven, L.T., Huang, J., Pacini, A., Arrigo, K.R., Ashjian, C.J., Berchok, C., Baumgartner, M.F., Cho, K.-H., Cooper, L.W., Danielson, S.L., Dasher, D., Fuiwara, A., Gann, J., Grebmeier, J.M., He, J., Hirawake, T., Itoh, M., Juranek, L., Kikuchi, T., Moore, G.W.K., Napp, J., John Nelson, R., Nishino, S., Statscewich, H., Stabeno, P., Stafford, K.M., Ueno, H., Vagle, S., Weingartner, T.J., Williams, B. and Zimmermann, S., 2023. The Pacific water flow branches in the eastern Chukchi Sea. Progress in Oceanography, 219: 103169, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2023.103169

Stabeno, P.J., Bell, S., Berchok, C., Cokelet, E.D., Cross, J., McCabe, R.M., Mordy, C.W., Overland, J., Strausz, D. and Sullivan, M., 2023. Long-term biophysical observations and climate impacts in US Arctic marine ecosystems. Oceanography, 36(2/3): 78-85, https://www.jstor.org/stable/27257883

Stewart, Joshua D., Trevor W. Joyce, John W. Durban, John Calambokidis, Deborah Fauquier, Holly Fearnbach, Jacqueline M. Grebmeier et al. "Boom-bust cycles in gray whales associated with dynamic and changing Arctic conditions." Science 382, no. 6667 (2023): 207-211, DOI: 10.1126/science.adi1847

Walker, A.M., Leigh, M.B., and Mincks, S.L., 2023, Benthic bacteria and archaea in the North American Arctic reflect food supply regimes and impacts of coastal and riverine inputs, Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 207: 105224, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2022.105224

2022

Clement Kinney, J., W. Maslowski, et al., 2022, On the variability of the Bering Sea Cold Pool and implications for the biophysical environment, PLoS ONE, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266180

Cooper, L.W.; Grebmeier, J.M. A chlorophyll biomass time-series for the Distributed Biological Observatory in the context of seasonal sea ice declines, 2022, Geosciences 2022, 12(8)/307, https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences12080307

Cooper, L.W., C. Magen, and J.M. Grebmeier. 2022. Changes in the oxygen isotope composition of the Bering Sea contribution to the Arctic Ocean are an independent measure of increasing freshwater fluxes through the Bering Strait. PLoS ONE 17(8): e0273065, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0273065

Danielson, S.L., J.M. Grebmeier, K. Iken, C. Berchok, L. Britt, K.H. Dunton, L. Eisner, E.V. Farley, A. Fujiwara, D.D.W. Hauser, M. Itoh, T. Kikuchi, S. Kotwicki, K.J. Kuletz, C.W. Mordy, S. Nishino, C. Peralta-Ferriz, R.S. Pickart, P.S. Stabeno, K.M. Stafford, A.V. Whiting, and R. Woodgate. 2022. Monitoring Alaskan Arctic shelf ecosystems through collaborative observation networks. Oceanography 35(3-4):198-209, https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2022.119.

Frey, K, E., J. Clement Kinney, L. V. Stock, R. Osinski, 2022, Observations of Declining Primary Production in the Western Bering Strait, Oceanography, 35, (2), https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2022.123

Frey, K.E., J.C. Comiso, L.W. Cooper, C. Garcia-Eidell, J.M. Grebmeier, and L.V. Stock. 2022. Arctic Ocean Primary Productivity: The Response of Marine Algae to Climate Warming and Sea Ice Decline. Arctic Report Card 2022, M.L Drunkenmiller, R.L. Thoman , and T.A. Moon, Eds.; NOAA technical report OAR ARC; 22-08 https://doi.org/10.25923/0je1-te61

Frey, K.E, L.N.C. Young, J.C. Comiso, L.V. Stock, L.W. Cooper, and J.M. Grebmeier. A comprehensive satellite-based assessment across the Pacific Arctic Distributed Biological Observatory shows widespread late-season sea surface warming and sea ice declines with variable influences on primary productivity. PLOS ONE 18(7): e0287960, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0287960

Gaffey, C.B., K.E Frey, L.W. Cooper, and J.M. Grebmeier. 2022. Phytoplankton bloom stage estimated from chlorophyll pigment proportions suggest delayed summer production in low sea ice years in the northern Bering Sea, PLOS ONE, 17(7): e0267586, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0267586

Gall, A. E., Prichard, A. K., Kuletz, K. J., & Danielson, S. L. (2022). Long: Influence of water masses on the summer structure of the seabird community in the northeastern Chukchi Sea. Plos one, 17(4), e0266182, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266182

Gemery, L. (2022). Biogeographic, geochemical, and paleoceanographic investigations of ostracodes in the bering, chukchi, and beaufort seas (Order No. 28966653). Available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. (2685599256). Retrieved from https://www.proquest.com/dissertations-theses/biogeographic-geochemical-paleoceanographic/docview/2685599256/se-2

Gemery, L., Cooper, L.W., Magen, C., Cronin, T.M., and Grebmeier, J.M. (2022). Stable oxygen isotopes in shallow marine ostracodes from the northern Bering and Chukchi Seas, Marine Micropaleontology, 102001, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marmicro.2021.102001

Giesbrecht, K. E., Varela, D. E., de Souza, G. F., & Maden, C. (2022). Natural variations in dissolved silicon isotopes across the Arctic Ocean from the Pacific to the Atlantic. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 36, e2021GB007107, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GB007107

Green, E. M. (2022). Insights into benthic macroinvertebrate ecology in the northern bering and southern chukchi seas from stable isotope analysis (Order No. 30001092). Available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. (2773668727), Retrieved from https://www.proquest.com/dissertations-theses/insights-into-benthic-macroinvertebrate-ecology/docview/2773668727/se-2

Lefebvre, K.A., Fachon, E., Bowers, E.K., Kimmel, D.G., Snyder, J.A., Stimmelmayr, R., Grebmeier, J.M., Kibler, S., Ransom Hardison, D., Anderson, D.M., Kulis, D., Murphy, J., Gann, J.C., Cooper, D., Eisner, L.B., Duffy-Anderson, J.T., Sheffield, G., Pickart, R.S., Mounsey, A., Willis, M.L., Stabeno, P., and Siddon, E. (2022). Paralytic shellfish toxins in Alaskan Arctic food webs during the anomalously warm ocean conditions of 2019 and estimated toxin doses to Pacific walruses and bowhead whales. Harmful Algae 114, 102205, 10.1016/j.hal.2022.102205

Moore S.E., J.T. Clarke, S.R. Okkonen, J.M. Grebmeier, C.L. Berchok, and K.M. Stafford. 2022. Changes in gray whale phenology and distribution related to prey variability and ocean biophysics in the northern Bering and eastern Chukchi seas. PLoS ONE 17(4): e0265934, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0265934

Pfaff, A. R. (2022). Drivers of epibenthic biodiversity and abundance in barrow canyon, chukchi sea utilizing drop camera video data (Order No. 30001006). Available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. (2773804222). Retrieved from https://www.proquest.com/dissertations-theses/drivers-epibenthic-biodiversity-abundance-barrow/docview/2773804222/se-2

Stafford, K.M., Melling, H., Moore, S.E., Berchok, C.L., Braen, E.K., Brewer, A.M. and Kimber, B.M., 2022. Marine mammal detections on the Chukchi Plateau 2009–2020. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 151(4), pp.2521-2529, https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0010208

Stafford, K.M., Farley, E.V., Ferguson, M., Kuletz, K.J., and Levine, R. 2022. Northward range expansion of subarctic upper trophic level animals into the Pacific Arctic region. Oceanography 35, 158-166, https://www.jstor.org/stable/27182710

2021

Anderson, D.M., E. Fachon, R.S. Pickart, P. Lin, A.D. Fischer, M.L. Richlen, V. Uva, M. Brosnahan, O.L. McRaven, F. Bahr, K. Lefebvre, J.M. Grebmeier, S. Danielson, Y. Lyu, and Y. Fukai. 2021. Evidence for massive and recurrent toxic blooms of Alexandrium catenella in the Alaskan Arctic. PNAS, Vol. 118, No. xx e2107387118, doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2107387118

Ashjian, C.J., Okkonen, S.R., Campbell, R.G., and Alatalo, P., 2021, Lingering Chukchi Sea sea ice and Chukchi Sea mean winds influence population age structure of euphausiids (krill) found in the bowhead whale feeding hotspot near Pt. Barrow, Alaska, PLOS ONE, 16(7): e0254418, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0254418

Feng, Z., Ji, R., Ashjian, C., Zhang, J., Campbell, R., Grebmeier, J.M., 2021, Benthic hotspots on the northern Bering and Chukchi continental shelf: Spatial variability in production regimes and environmental drivers, Progress in Oceanography, 191, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2020.102497

Gemery, L., Cooper, L.W., Magen, C., Cronin, T.M., and Grebmeier, J.M., 2021, Stable oxygen isotopes in shallow marine ostracodes from the northern Bering and Chukchi Seas, Marine Micropaleontology, 102001, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marmicro.2021.102001

Gemery, L., Cronin, T.M., Cooper, L.W., Dowsett, H.J., and Grebmeier, J.M., 2021, Biogeography and ecology of Ostracoda in the U.S. northern Bering, Chukchi, and Beaufort Seas, PLOS ONE, 16(5): e0251164, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0251164

Giesbrecht, K. E., Varela, D. E. (2021). Summertime biogenic silica production and silicon limitation in the Pacific Arctic region from 2006 to 2016. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 35, e2020GB006629, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GB006629

Goethel, C. L. (2021). Time-series focused assessments of changing marine bivalve communities in the bering and chukchi seas (Order No. 28776435). Available from Earth, Atmospheric & Aquatic Science Collection; ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. (2634110883). Retrieved from https://www.proquest.com/dissertations-theses/time-series-focused-assessments-changing-marine/docview/2634110883/se-2

Jones, B.R., Kelley, A.L., and Mincks, S.L., 2021, Changes to benthic community structure may impact organic matter consumption on Pacific Arctic shelves, Conservation Physiology, 9, https://doi.org/10.1093/conphys/coab007

Kędra, M., Cooper, L.W., Silberberger, M.J., Zhang, M., Biasatti, D., and Grebmeier, J.M., 2021, Organic carbon source variability in Arctic bivalves as deduced from the compound specific carbon isotopic composition of amino acids, Journal of Marine Systems, 103547, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmarsys.2021.103547

Koch, C. W. (2021). The significance of sea ice algae in the pacific arctic determined by highly branched isoprenoid biomarkers (Order No. 28415339). Available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. (2562798771). Retrieved from https://www.proquest.com/dissertations-theses/significance-sea-ice-algae-pacific-arctic/docview/2562798771/se-2

Koch, C.W., Cooper, L.W., Woodland, R.J., Grebmeier, J.M., Frey, K.E., Stimmelmayr, R., Magen, C., and Brown, T.A., 2021, Female Pacific walruses (Odobenus rosmarus divergens) show greater partitioning of sea ice organic carbon than males: Evidence from ice algae trophic markers, PLOS ONE, 16(8): e0255686, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0255686

Lalande, C., Grebmeier, J.M., Mcdonnell, A.M.P., Hopcroft, R.R., O'Daly, S., and Danielson, S.L., 2021, Impact of a warm anomaly in the Pacific Arctic region derived from time-series export fluxes, PLOS ONE, 16(8): e0255837, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0255837

Mueter, F.J., K. Iken, L.W. Cooper, J.M. Grebmeier, K.J. Kuletz, R.R. Hopcroft, S.L. Danielson, R.E. Collins, D. Cushing. 2021. Changes in diversity and species composition across multiple assemblages in the northeast Chukchi Sea during two contrasting years are consistent with borealization. Oceanography, 34, No. 2, pp. 38-51, doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2021.213

Pickart, R.S., M.A. Spall, P. Lin, K.R. Arrigo, J.M. Grebmeier, and L.T. McRaven. 2021. Physical controls on the macrofaunal benthic biomass in Barrow Canyon, Chukchi Sea. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, JGRC24496, doi.org/10.1029/2020JC017091

Stafford KM, Citta JJ, Okkonen SR, and Zhang J, 2021, Bowhead and beluga whale acoustic detections in the western Beaufort Sea 2008-2018, PLOS ONE, 16(6): e0253929, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0253929

Zhou, J., Luo, X., Xiao, J., Wei, H., Zhao, W., and Zheng, Z., 2021, Modeling the seasonal and interannual variations in nitrate flux through Bering Strait, Journal of Marine Systems, 218, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmarsys.2021.103527

2020

Danielson, S.L., Ahkinga, O., Ashjian, C., Basyuk, E., Cooper, L.W., Eisner, L., Farley, E., Iken, K.B., Grebmeier, J.M., Juranek, L., Khen, G., Jayne, S.R., Kikuchi, T., Ladd, C., Lu, K., McCabe, R.M., Moore, G.W.K., Nishino, S., Ozenna, F., Pickart, R.S., Polyakov, I., Stabeno, P.J., Thoman, R., Williams, W.J., Wood, K., and Weingartner, T.J., 2020, Manifestation and consequences of warming and altered heat fluxes over the Bering and Chukchi Sea continental shelves, Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 177, doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2020.104781

Frey, K.E., J.C. Comiso, L.W. Cooper, J.M. Grebmeier, and L.V. Stock, 2020, Arctic Ocean Report Card 2020, https://arctic.noaa.gov/Portals/7/ArcticReportCard/Documents/ArcticReportCard_full_report2020.pdf

Giesbrecht, K.E., and Varela, D.E. (2021). Summertime Biogenic Silica Production and Silicon Limitation in the Pacific Arctic Region From 2006 to 2016. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 35, e2020GB006629, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GB006629

Koch, C. W., Cooper, L. W., Lalande, C., Brown, T. A., Frey, K. E., and Grebmeier, J. M., 2020, Seasonal and latitudinal variations in sea ice algae deposition in the Northern Bering and Chukchi Seas determined by algal biomarkers, PLoS ONE, 15, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0231178

Koch, C.W., Cooper, L.W., Grebmeier, J.M., Frey, K., and Brown, T.A., 2020, Ice algae resource utilization by benthic macro- and megafaunal communities on the Pacific Arctic shelf determined through lipid biomarker analysis, Marine Ecology Progress Series, 651, https://doi.org/10.3354/meps13476

Meadows, C.A. (2020). Community-Level Biotic Response to Increasing Climate Variability During the Last 150 Years: Steady and Warming Conditions on the Continental Shelf of the Pacific Arctic Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Chicago.

Waga, H., Hirawake, T., and Grebmeier, J.M., 2020, Recent change in benthic macrofaunal community composition in relation to physical forcing in the Pacific Arctic, Polar Biology, 43, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-020-02632-3

Waga, H., and T. Hirawake (2020), Changing Occurrences of Fall Blooms Associated With Variations in Phytoplankton Size Structure in the Pacific Arctic, Frontiers in Marine Science, 7:209, https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.00209

2019

Cooper, L. W., Guarinello, M. L., Grebmeier, J. M., Bayard, A., Lovvorn, J. R., North, C. A., and Kolts, J. M., 2019, A video seafloor survey of epibenthic communities in the Pacific Arctic including Distributed Biological Observatory stations in the northern Bering and Chukchi seas, Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 162, doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2019.05.003

Creamean, J.M., Cross, J.N., Pickart, R., McRaven, L., Lin, P., Pacini, A., Hanlon, R., Schmale, D.G., Ceniceros, J., Aydell, T. and Colombi, N., 2019. Ice nucleating particles carried from below a phytoplankton bloom to the Arctic atmosphere. Geophysical Research Letters, 46(14), pp.8572-8581, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL083039

Eaton, Claire, 2019, Science Diplomacy in the Atlantic Arctic: Assessing Potential Expansion of the Distributed Biological Observatory (DBO) to the Baffin Bay-Davis Strait Area, M.S. Thesis, Department of Natural Resources and the Environment. University of New Hampshire, https://www.proquest.com/openview/3756de619f9fd00b08a335efe378cbdd/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y

Giesbrecht, K. E., Varela, D. E., Wiktor, J., Grebmeier, J. M., Kelly, B., and Long, J. E. , 2019, A decade of summertime measurements of phytoplankton biomass, productivity and assemblage composition in the Pacific Arctic Region from 2006 to 2016, Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 162, doi: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2018.06.010

Goethel, C. L., Grebmeier, J. M., and Cooper, L. W. , 2019, Changes in abundance and biomass of the bivalve Macoma calcarea in the northern Bering Sea and the southeastern Chukchi Sea from 1998 to 2014, tracked through dynamic factor analysis models, Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 162, doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2018.10.007

Grebmeier, J. M., Moore, S. E., Cooper, L. W., and Frey, K. E., 2019, The Distributed Biological Observatory: A change detection array in the Pacific Arctic - An introduction, Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 162, doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2019.05.005

Iken, K., Mueter, F., Grebmeier, J. M., Cooper, L. W., Danielson, S. L., and Bluhm, B. A. , 2019, Developing an observational design for epibenthos and fish assemblages in the Chukchi Sea, Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 162, doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2018.11.005

Kędra, M., Cooper, L. W., Zhang, M., Biasatti, D., and Grebmeier, J. M. , 2019, Benthic trophic sensitivity to on-going changes in Pacific Arctic seasonal sea ice cover - Insights from the nitrogen isotopic composition of amino acids, Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 162, doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2019.01.002

Kuletz, K. J., Cushing, D. A., Osnas, E. E., Labunski, E. A., and Gall, A. E., 2019, Representation of the Pacific Arctic seabird community within the Distruted Biologival Observatory array, 2007-2015, Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 162, doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2019.04.001

Lin, P., Pickart, R. S., Moore, G. W. K., Spall, M. A., and Hu, J. , 2019, Chacteristics and dynamics of wind-driven upwelling in the Alaskan Beaufort Sea based on six years of mooring data, Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 162, doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2018.01.002

Meadows, C. A., Grebmeier, J. M., and Kidwell, S. M. , 2019, High-latitude benthic bivalve biomass and recent climate change: Testing the power of live-dead discordance in the Pacific Arctic , Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 162, doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2019.04.005

Moore, S.E. and Hauser, D.D., 2019. Marine mammal ecology and health: finding common ground between conventional science and indigenous knowledge to track arctic ecosystem variability. Environmental Research Letters, 14(7), https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ab20d8/meta

Moore, S. E. and Kuletz, K. J. , 2019, Marine birds and mammals as ecosystem sentinels in and near Distributed Biological Observatory regions: An abbreviated review of published accounts and recommendations for integration to ocean observatories, Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 162, doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2018.09.004

Okkonen, S., Ashjian, C., Campbell, R. G., and Alatalo, P. , 2019, The encoding of wind forcing into the Pacific-Arctic pressure head, Chukchi Sea ice retreat and late-summer Barrow Canyon water masses , Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 162, doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2018.05.009

Pisareva, M. N., Pickart, R. S., Lin, P., Fratantoni, P. S., and Weingartner, T. J., 2019, On the nature of wind-forced upwelling in Barrow Canyon, Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 162, doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2019.02.002

Pickart, R.S., C. Nobre, P. Lin, K.R. Arrigo, C.J. Ashjian, C.Berchok, L.W. Cooper, J.M. Grebmeier, I.Hartwell, J.He, M. Itoh, T. Kikuchi, S. Nishino, and S. Vagle. 2019.Seasonal to mesoscale variability of water masses and atmospheric conditions in Barrow Canyon, Chukchi Sea, Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 162, doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2019.02.003

Shroyer, E. L. and Pickart, R. S. , 2019, Pathways, timing, and evolution of Pacific Winter Water through Barrow Canyon, Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 162, doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2018.05.004

Stabeno, P. J., Bell, S. W., Bond, N. A., Kimmel, D. G., Mordy, C. W., and Sullivan, M. E. , 2019, Distributed Biological Observatory Region 1: Physics, chemistry and plankton in the northern Bering Sea, Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 162, doi:/10.1016/j.dsr2.2018.11.006

Waga, H., Hirawake, T., Fujiwara, A., Grebmeier, J. M., and Saitoh, S.I. , 2019, Impact of spatiotemporal variability in phytoplankton size structure on benthic macrofaunal distribution in the Pacific Arctic, Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 162, doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2018.10.008

2018

Cooper, L. W. and Grebmeier, J. M. , 2018, Deposition patterns on the Chukchi shelf using radionuclide inventories in relation to surface sediment characteristics, Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 152, doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2018.01.009

Grebmeier, J., Frey, K., Cooper, L., and Kędra, M. , 2018, Trends in Benthic Macrofaunal Populations, Seasonal Sea Ice Persistence, and Bottom Water Temperatures in the Bering Strait Region, Oceanography, 31, doi:10.5670/oceanog.2018.224

Hauri, C., Danielson, S., McDonnell, A. M. P., Hopcroft, R. R., Winsor, P., Shipton, P., Lalande, C., Stafford, K. M., Horne, J. K., Cooper, L. W., Grebmeier, J. M., Mahoney, A., Maisch, K., McCammon, M., Statscewich, H., Sybrandy, A., and Weingartner, T., 2018, From sea ice to seals: a moored marine ecosystem observatory in the Arctic, Ocean Science, 14, doi:10.5194/os-14-1423-2018

Lovvorn, J. R., North, C. A., Grebmeier, J. M., Cooper, L. W., and Kolts, J. M., 2018, Sediment organic carbon integrates changing environmental conditions to predict benthic assemblages in shallow Arctic seas, Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems , 28, doi:10.1002/aqc.2906

Moore, S. E., and Grebmeier, J. M. , 2018, The Distributed Biological Observatory: Linking Physics to Biology in the Pacific Arctic Region + Supplementary File (See Article Tools), ARCTIC, 71, https://www.jstor.org/stable/26646184

Moore, S. E., Stabeno, P. J., Grebmeier, J. M., and Okkonen, S. R. , 2018, The Arctic Marine Pulses Model: linking annual oceanographic processes to contiguous ecological domains in the Pacific Arctic, Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 152, doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2016.10.011

Wang, M., Yang, Q., Overland, J.E., Stabeno, P., 2018, Sea-ice cover timing in the Pacific Arctic: The present and projections to mid-century by selected CMIP5 models, Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 152, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2017.11.017

Other Years

Kędra, M., J. M. Grebmeier, & L. W. Cooper, 2017, Sipunculan fauna in the Pacific Arctic region: a significant component of benthic infaunal communities, Polar Biology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-017-2179-z

Nishino, S., Kikuchi, T., Fujiwara, A., Hirawake, T., and Aoyama, M., 2016, Water mass characteristics and their temporal changes in a biological hotspot in the southern Chukchi Sea, Biogeosciences, 13, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-2563-2016

Grebmeier, J., Bluhm, B., Cooper, L., Denisenko, S., Iken, K., Kędra, M., and Serratos, C. , 2015, Time-Series Benthic Community Composition and Biomass and Associated Environmental Characteristics in the Chukchi Sea During the RUSALCA 2004–2012 Program, Oceanography, 28, doi:10.5670/oceanog.2015.61

DBO Relevant Publications

Ershova, E.A, Descoteaux, R, Wangensteen, O., Iken, K., Hopcroft, R., Smoot, C., Grebmeier, J.M., Bluhm, B.A. 2019. Diversity and distribution of meroplanktonic larvae in the Pacific Arctic and connectivity with adult benthic invertebrate communities. Frontiers in Marine Science 6, 490, doi.10.3389/fmars.2019.00490

Heshan Lin, Kun Liu, Jianjun Wang, Junhui Lin, Yaqin Huang, Xuebao He, Zhong Li, Shuyi Zhang, Jianfeng Mou, Yanguang Liu, Puqing Song, Yu Wang, Bingpeng Xing. 2019. Spatial variability of macrobenthic production in the Bering Sea, Polar Biology (2019) 42:449-460, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-018-2414-2

Moore, S.E., P.J. Stabeno, J.M. Grebmeier, and S.R. Okkonen. 2018. The Arctic Marine Pulses model: linking annual oceanographic processes to contiguous ecological domains in the Pacific Arctic. Deep Sea Research II Topical Studies in Oceanography 152, 8-21, dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2016.10.011

Gall, A.E., Morgan, T.C., Day, R.H., Kuletz, K.J., 2017. Ecological shift from piscivorous to planktivorous seabirds in the Chukchi Sea, 1975-2012. Polar Biol 40, 61-78, doi.org/10.1007/s00300-016-1924-z

Sigler, M.F., Mueter, F.J., Bluhm, B.A., Busby, M.S., Cokelet, E.D., Danielson, S.L., Robertis, A.D., Eisner, L.B., Farley, E.V., Iken, K., Kuletz, K.J., Lauth, R.R., Logerwell, E.A., Pinchuk, A.I., 2017. Late summer zoogeography of the northern Bering and Chukchi seas. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography 135, 168-189, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2016.03.005

Kuletz, K.J., Ferguson, M.C., Hurley, B., Gall, A.E., Labunski, E.A., Morgan, T.C., 2015. Seasonal spatial patterns in seabird and marine mammal distribution in the eastern Chukchi and western Beaufort seas: Identifying biologically important pelagic areas. Progress in Oceanography 136, 175-200, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2015.05.012

Grebmeier, J.M., Maslowski, W. (Eds.), 2014. The Pacific Arctic Region: Ecosystem Status and Trends in a Rapidly Changing Environment. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8863-2

Clement Kinney, J., W. Maslowski, S. Okkonen, 2009. On the processes controlling shelf-basin exchange and outer shelf dynamics in the Bering Sea. Deep-Sea Res. II, Vol. 56, 1351-1362, doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2008.10.023

Clement, J. L., W. Maslowski, L. Cooper, J. Grebmeier, W. Walczowski, 2005. Ocean circulation and exchanges through the northern Bering Sea - 1979-2001 model results. Deep Sea Research II, 52, 3509-3540, doi: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2005.09.010