Grace Su ( grace@seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov) (301) 286-9494
Applicant's Name: Rachel Potter
Institution: University of Alaska - Fairbanks
Address: Institute of Marine Science
P.O. Box 757220
Fairbanks, AK 99775
Telephone: 907-474-5709
Fax Number: 907-474-7204
E-mail Address: rpotter@ims.uaf.edu
Type of Temporary Agreement requested:
An agreement that temporarily allows an existing real-time SeaWiFS HRPT
station to release data to the Authorized Users listed below.
Time period of temporary agreement:
(1) Start Date (month/day/year): 04/30/2003
End Date (month/day/year): 05/27/2003
(2) Start Date (month/day/year): 07/09/2003
End Date (month/day/year): 08/19/2003
SeaWiFS HRPT Station to provide data: HUAF
List of Authorized Users to access real-time data.
1. Rachel Potter
2. Dave Musgrave
3. W. Scott Pegau
Project Title: Mesoscale Survey in the Gulf of Alaska
Principal investigator(s): Daivd Musgrave and Terry Whitledge
Funding Agency(s): National Science Foundation
Description of the Research Project and Justification for Real-time SeaWiFS Data:
In May and July-August 2003, the SALMON Project, in conjunction with the Northeast
Pacific GLOBEC program, will undertake one of the most comprehensive surveys ever to
occur in Alaskan waters. By using the SeaSoar, an undulating instrument platform,
researchers intend to map physical and biological oceanographic characteristics
associated with the Alaska Coastal Current. Examples include the shelf-break front,
topographic steering associated with bathymetric irregularities, mesoscale and sub-
mesoscale eddies and meanders, and the strength of downwelling/upwelling at the coast.
These features affect the transport and distribution of deep-water zooplankton that are
alleged to be an important food source for juvenile salmon and may determine their
survival. The spatial scope fo the study is from the western end of Prince William Sound
to Kodiak Island. This survey will take place on the College of Oceanic and Atmospheric
Sciences at Oregon State University research vessel R/V Wacoma.
Having real-time SeaWiFS data will aid in finding the features that the researchers are
searching for while at sea.