Student papers for the 2017 Alaska Ocean Sciences Bowl Research Project: Resource Management in a Warming Pacific
The following papers were submitted by high school teams participating in the 2017 Alaska regional competition of the National Ocean Sciences Bowl.
Links below all to PDF files.
(in alphabetical order by city)
- Cordova Junior/Senior High School, Tsunami Bowling for Soup: The Effects of Climate Change on Sockeye Salmon in Prince William Sound and the Copper River
- Homer High School, Hooked on an ‘eeling: Oyster Mariculture: Kachemack Bay Management Plan in Response to a Changing Climate
- Juneau-Douglas High School, Get Nauti: Potential Impacts to Snow Crab (Chionoecetes opilio) in Warming Waters of the Bering Sea and Possible Management Solutions
- Ketchikan High School, Saber Toothed Salmon: Monitoring Southeast Alaskan Pink Salmon in a Warming Ocean
- Kodiak High School, The Punnipeds: Steller Sea Lions: A Natural Ecosystem Management System
- Mat-Su Career & Technical High School, The Little Cthulhus: An Analysis of the Repercusions Associated with Warming Oceans on Populations of Giant North Pacific Octopuses
- Mat-Su Career & Technical High School, Mat-Tsunamis: Adverse Effects of Ocean Acidification on Alaskan King Crab Populations
- Palmer High School, Chickens of the Sea: Effects of Ocean Warming on Littleneck Clams (Protothaca stamineais) in Alaska
- Petersburg High School, Higher Porpoise: Effect of a Warming North Pacific Ocean on LeConte Glacier
- Scammon Bay School, Eliimaq Maklak: The Impact of a Warming Pacific Ocean on Ice Seals in Alaska
- South Anchorage High School, Electric Guitar Fish: Global Warming and Ocean Acidification’s Effect on Pteropod Populations and Their Influence on Pink Salmon
- Unalaska City High School, Lucky Pollucky: Climate Change and the Effects on the Bering Sea Pollock Fisheries
- Wasilla High School, Smoltification Edumacation: Effects of Climate Change on Chinook Salmon as a Resource to the Cook Inlet
