UAF Oceans Lab

Studying Alaska Region Oceanography

A Conductivity, Temperature, and Depth assembly hangs from a cable, as it is lowered into an ocean.

CTD deployment from USCG Healy

A remote controlled Slocum glider, or autonomous underwater vehicle, glides slowly in clear ocean waters with a snowy mountain in the background.

A Slocum glider in a glaciated fjord

Three researchers in polar snow suits stand on the Northern ice cap holding a University of Alaska Fairbanks sign.

Members of the UAF Oceans team at the geographic North Pole during a cruise on USCG Healy. Left to right: Pete Shipton, Seth Danielson, and Savannah Sandy

A mooring that measures elements in water is lowered by cable into the ocean.

Instrumentation on an oceanographic mooring that measures pCO2, chlorophyll a, nitrate, irradiance, temperature and salinity.

The UAF Oceans Lab, led by Drs. Seth Danielson, Tyler Hennon and Thilo Klenz, is a collaborative research group dedicated to understanding how the ocean shapes ecosystems in the high-latitude North Pacific and Arctic. Our work focuses on the circulation, temperature, and freshwater variations of continental shelves, and how changes in these fundamental properties affect nutrient cycling, biological productivity, and ecosystem structure.

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