Michele and Jessica.

Michele Frandsen

Program Manager

(907) 474-7088
frandsen@ims.uaf.edu

Alaska Sea Grant role

Manage and supervise support functions of the Alaska Sea Grant Program. Oversee Sea Grant proposal submission, project budgets, and reporting requirements. Administrative contact for principal investigators, graduate students, and general public. Maintain the ASG integrated project database and Web interface that tracks projects, students, and program outcomes. Member of management team. Joined Alaska Sea Grant in May 2001.

Education

Coursework toward a degree in wildlife biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks

Expertise

Accountability for administrative budgets and outcomes for all Sea Grant–funded research, advisory, and communications projects. Anticipating problems and dealing with them as needed.

Selected publications

Norcross, B.L., S.M. McKinnell, M. Frandsen, D.L. Musgrave, and S.R. Sweet. 2003. Larval fishes in relation to water masses of the central North Pacific transitional areas, including the shelf break of west-central Alaska. Journal of Oceanography 59(4):445–460.
Norcross, B.L., E.D. Brown, R.J. Foy, M. Frandsen, S. Gay, T.C. Kline Jr., D.M. Mason, E.V. Patrick, A.J. Paul, and K.D.E. Stokesbury. 2001. A synthesis of the early life history and ecology of juvenile Pacific herring in Prince William Sound, Alaska. Fish. Oceanog. 10 (Suppl. 1):42–57.
Norcross, B.L., and M. Frandsen. 1996. Distribution and abundance of larval fishes in Prince William Sound, Alaska, during 1989 after the Exxon Valdez oil spill. In: S.D. Rice, R.B. Spies, D.A. Wolfe, and B.A. Wright (eds.), Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Symposium Proceedings. Am. Fish. Soc. Symp. 18:463–486.

What I do when not at Sea Grant