2010 Alaska Ocean Sciences Bowl Research Project: Problems facing Alaska coastal communities as a direct result of a retreating and thinning Arctic ice cap
The following papers were submitted by high school teams participating in the 2010 Alaska regional competition of the National Ocean Sciences Bowl. The papers after third place are listed in alphabetical order by school.
Winning Paper
- Petersburg High School W.O.A.A.: Possible Effects of Freshwater Inputs from Melting Icefields on the Marine Ecosystem of Petersburg, Alaska
Second Place (tie)
- Cordova High School–Prince William Sound Science Center The Notorious Dawgsharks: Shrinking Sea Ice, Growing Risk
- Seward High School Perusing Pycnopodia: The Effects of Receding Sea Ice on Point Hope
Other Papers
(in alphabetical order by city)
- Anchorage: South Anchorage High School Team Starfish: Productivity and Sea Ice Decline in the Arctic Ocean
- Eagle River High School Team Mobulidae: Upon Thin Ice (Problems Facing Barrow, Alaska, as a Direct Result of a Retreating and Thinning Arctic Ice Cap)
- Juneau-Douglas–Thunder Mountain High School Team Hot Tropic: Managing Walleye Pollock (Theragra chalcogramma) and Opilio Crab (Chionoecetes opilio) Fisheries under Changing Climatic Conditions
- Juneau-Douglas High School Team Soaladaobs: Impacts of Climate Change on Sea Ice and Bering Sea Primary Production
- Kodiak High School Weapons of Bass Destruction: Effects of Polar Ice Melt on Ocean Chemistry and Kodiak Island's Economy and Energy Technology
- Kotzebue High School Muktuk Mafia: The Effects of Global Warming on Shipping
- Mountain Village–Ignatius Beans Memorial School Complex Sea Lions: Shrinking Ice and its Perceived Effects on the Subsistence Sources of Mountain Village, Alaska
- Mountain Village–Ignatius Beans Memorial School Complex Juvenile Gannets: Shrinking Ice and Impact on Polar Bears
- Soldotna High School Krakens: The Effects of Global Warming and Thinning Sea Ice on Polar Bears (Ursus maritimus) and Other Animals of the Arctic
- Unalaska City School B.E.A.N.: The Impact of Receding Sea Ice on the Unalaska Snow Crab Industry
- Unalaska City School The Pelagic Surimi Bombers: The Impact of Sea Ice on the Unalaska Pollock Fishery
- Wasilla: Mat-Su Career & Technical High School Mat-Tsunami: Tough Times for Wainwright
- Wasilla: Mat-Su Career & Technical High School Fightoplankton: Devastating Effect of Arctic Ice on the Village of Newtok
- Wasilla High School Mollusca Cephalopoda Nautilidae: Problems Facing the Alaskan Coastal Community of Shishmaref as a Direct Result of Retreating and Thinning Arctic Ice Cap
