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Monitoring seabird populations in areas of oil and gas development on the Alaskan Continental Shelf: Oceanic, shelf and coastal seabird assemblages at the mouth of a tidally-mixed estuary (Cook Inlet, Alaska). Final report

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:432733
Surveys were conducted in July, 1992 to study the distribution and abundance of seabirds in a 12,500 sq km area of lower Cook Inlet, Alaska. Seabirds at the sea surface, fish below the surface (estimated acoustically), and sea surface temperature and salinity were recorded on 415 ten-minute transects covering 1225 linear km. Sea temperature and salinity (CTD) profiles of the water column and zooplankton tows were obtained on stations crossing the entrance to Cook Inlet.
Research Organization:
National Biological Service, Anchorage, AK (United States). Alaska Science Center
OSTI ID:
432733
Report Number(s):
PB--97-124929/XAB
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English