Alaska Sea Grant

The Gulf of Alaska: Biology and Oceanography

Table of Contents

Chapter

 

Page

Preface

 

v

Acknowledgments

 

v

CHAPTER 1—Introduction

Phillip R. Mundy and Robert Spies

 

1

CHAPTER 2—Physical and Biological Background

Phillip R. Mundy and Robert T. Cooney

15

CHAPTER 3—Climate and Weather

Phillip R. Mundy and Peter Olsson

25

CHAPTER 4—Physical and Geological Oceanography: Coastal Boundaries and Coastal and Ocean Circulation

Thomas Weingartner

35

CHAPTER 5—Biological and Chemical Oceanography

Robert T. Cooney

49

CHAPTER 6—Nearshore Benthic Communities

Charles Peterson

59

CHAPTER 7—Seabirds in the Gulf Of Alaska

Alan Springer

69

CHAPTER 8—Fish and Shellfish

Phillip R. Mundy and Anne Hollowed

81

CHAPTER 9—Marine Mammals

Lloyd Lowry and James Bodkin

99

CHAPTER 10—Economics of Human Uses and Activities in the Northern Gulf Of Alaska

James Richardson and Gregg Erickson

117

CHAPTER 11—Modeling

Gretchen Oosterhout

139

References

153

Acronyms

181

Index

193