Recent Projects

Ongoing:

The Physical and Chemical Dynamics of Groundwater Flow across the Land-Sea Interface in Arctic Lagoon Ecosystems

Groundwater study area along the shoreline of Kaktovik Lagoon. 

Collaborative Research: The Physical and Chemical Dynamics of Groundwater Flow across the Land-Sea Interface in Arctic Lagoon Ecosystems, NSF-OPP-ANS-1938820.  2020-2023.  This project includes collaborators from the Jackson School of Geosciences at UT (M.B. Cardenas) and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (M. Charette). 


Arctic Great Rivers Observatory
Go to http://arcticgreatrivers.org for information this project.

Dr. McClelland on the Yukon River near Pilot Station, AK.

Collaborative Research: AON: The Arctic Great Rivers Observatory (Arctic-GRO), NSF-OPP-AON-1914215.  2019-2024.  This project is collaboratively linked with NSF grants to the Woods Hole Research Center (R. Holmes), Florida State University (R. Spencer), and University of New Hampshire (A. Shiklomanov). http://arcticgreatrivers.org


A Predictive Model for Arctic Coastal Erosion

Graduate student Emily Bristol sampling bluff face material at Drew Point, Alaska. Photo credit: Ben Jones.

A Predictive Model for Arctic Coastal Erosion, DOE, Sandia National Laboratories – Academic Alliance Partnership.  2017-2020.  This project includes collaborators from Sandia National Labs (D. Bull, J. Frederick, A. Mota), University of Alaska Fairbanks (B. Jones, J. Kasper), and Integral Consulting (C. Jones).


LTER: Beaufort Sea Lagoons: An Arctic Coastal Ecosystem in Transition
Go to https://ble.lternet.edu/ for information on this project.

BLE LTER field team at work during a sampling trip to Kaktovik Lagoon in April 2019.

LTER: Beaufort Sea Lagoons: An Arctic Coastal Ecosystem in Transition, NSF-PLR-1656026.  2017-2022. This project includes collaborators from the University of Massachusetts Amherst (M. Rawlins), Oregon State University (B. Crump and E. Spitz), University of Alaska Fairbanks (K. Iken, J. Kasper, and A. Mahoney), University of Toronto Mississauga (B. McMeans), UT El Paso (V. Lougheed and C. Tweedie), and the UT Marine Science Institute (K. Dunton, A. Hardison).  https://ble.lternet.edu/


Concluded:

Collaborative Research: AON: The Arctic Great Rivers Observatory (Arctic-GRO), NSF-PLR-1602680.  2016-2019. This project was collaboratively linked with NSF grants to the Woods Hole Research Center (R. Holmes), Florida State University (R. Spencer), and University of New Hampshire (A. Shiklomanov).

Where a River Slows: Investigating the Oscillic Freshwater Zone, NSF-EAR-1417433.  2014-2018. This project included collaborators from the Jackson School of Geosciences (K. Moffett), the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (B. Hodges), and the Marine Science Institute (A. Hardison) at UT-Austin. 

Expansion and Modernization of Stable Isotope Analysis Capabilities at the University of Texas Marine Science Institute, NSF-DBI-1418764.  2014-2016.  This project included collaborators from the UT Marine Science Institute (D. Erdner, and W. Gardner). 

Collaborative Research: Identification of nitrogen sources for toxic Alexandrium blooms using a novel species-specific tracer, d15N-saxitoxin, NSF-OCE-1232835.  2012-2015.  This project included collaborators from the UT Marine Science Institute (D. Erdner), Virginia Institute of Marine Science (J. Smith), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (D. Anderson), and Stony Brook University (C. Gobler). 

The Arctic Great Rivers Observatory (Arctic-GRO), NSF-OPP-1107774.  2012-2016.  This project included collaborators from the Woods Hole Research Center (R. Holmes), Marine Biological Laboratory (B. Peterson), and Yale University (Peter Raymond).

Developing and Applying an Integrated Multi-scale Earth System Modeling Framework to Study the Impacts of Changing Climate, Local Weather, and Land Use on Watersheds and Downstream Coastal Ecosystems, NASA-NNX11AE42G.  2011-2014.  This project included collaborators from UT-Austin (Z.-L. Yang, D. Maidment), UT San Antonio (H. Xie), Texas A&M University Corpus Christi (P. Montagna), and the US Forest Services (W.-M. Hao).

Collaborative Research: Terrestrial Linkages to Microbial and Metazoan Communities in Coastal Ecosystems of the Beaufort Sea, NSF-OPP-1023582.  2010-2013.  This project included collaborators from the UT Marine Science Institute (K. Dunton) and University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences (B. Crump).