Contact Information
Global Undersea Research Unit217 O'Neill
P.O. Box 757220
University of Alaska Fairbanks
Fairbanks, AK 99775-7220
Phone: (907) 474-5028
Fax: (907) 474-5804
bkonar@guru.uaf.edu
Brenda Konar Associate Professor
Specialties
- phycology
- research scuba diving
- biodiversity
- monitoring programs
- nearshore ecology
- ecosystem change
- benthic ecology
Courses
Spring 2008
- Adv. Scientific Diving (MSL F623)
- Advanced Scientific Diving (MSL F421)
- Scientific Diving (MSL F420)
- SEM: Marine Biology (MSL F692Y)
Fall 2008
Current Research Projects
- Kelp forest interaction webs in the Aleutian archipelago: patterns and mechanisms of change following the collapse of an apex predator (NSF)
- Evaluation of walrus foraging habitats (Alaska Sea Grant and NPRB)
- NaGISA (Sloan Foundation)
Global biodiveristy program that focuses on nearshore rocky habitats - Recovery in a high arctic kelp community (CMI)
Links
Syllabi
- MSL 420 Scientific Diving (22 KB PDF)
- MSL 421/623 Advanced Scientific Diving (26 KB PDF)
- MSL 456/656 Kelp Forest Ecology (14 KB PDF)
- MSL 495 Cold Water Diving (20 KB PDF)
Kelp Forest Ecology class images
Scientific Diving class images
Graduate Students
Reid Brewer
Chemosensory ability of seastars in the Pacific Northwest (graduated summer 2003)
Heloise Chenelot
Impacts of salinity and turbidity on the spatial distribution of kelp beds in Kachemak Bay, Alaska (graduated fall 2003)
Casey Debenham
Isotope analysis of a high arctic kelp community and its surrounding area (graduated fall 2005)
Judy Hamilton
Utilization of Alaska kelp beds by commercially important fishes (graduated summer 2004)
Cathy Hegwer
Shallow water nearshore fish assemblages around Steller sea lion haulouts near Kodiak, Alaska (graduated fall 2003)
Heather Patterson
The effects of freezing on the intertidal in Kachemak Bay, Alaska (graduated summer 2004)
Joel Markis
Essential larval and juvenile fish habitat in the nearshore waters of Kachemak Bay (graduated spring 2007)
Ben Daly
Habitat use by larval, juvenile and adult crab populations in the nearshore communities (graduated spring 2007)
Tracie Merrill
Evaluation of walrus foraging grounds in the Bering Sea
Nick Harman
Role of grazers in the recolonization of hard bottom communities in Kachemak Bay, Alaska
Brooke McFarland
Physical and biological habitat preferences of black oystercatchers breeding territories in Prince William Sound, Alaska
Selected Publications
Konar, B, K Iken and M Edwards. Vertical patterns of community structure on rocky shores in the Gulf of Alaska. Submitted to Marine Biology
Daly B and B Konar. Effects of macroalgal structural complexity on nearshore larval and post-larval crab composition. Marine Biology 153:1055-1064. Download PDF (446 KB)
Bluhm B.A., K.O. Coyle, B. Konar and R.C. Highsmith. 2007. High gray whale densities associated with an oceanographic front in the south-central Chukchi Sea. Deep Sea Research II 54: 2919-2933. Download PDF (1.4 MB)
Coyle K.O., B.A. Bluhm, B. Konar, A.L. Blanchard and R.C. Highsmith. 2007. Amphipod prey of gray whales in the northern Bering Sea: comparison of biomass and distribution between the 1980s and 2002 - 2003. Deep Sea Research II 54: 2906-2918. Download PDF (647 KB)
Coyle K.O., B. Konar, A. Blanchard, R.C. Highsmith, M. Carroll, J. Carroll and S. Denisenko. 2007. Temperature effects on the benthic infaunal community on the southeastern Bering Sea shelf: the potential impact of global climate change. Deep Sea Research II 54: 2885-2905. Download PDF (1.71 MB)
Hondelero, D, B Konar, K Iken, H Chenelot. 2007. Variation in low intertidal communities: submerged vs. emerged. Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory 8:29-36.
Chenelot, H, K Iken. B Konar, M Edwards. 2007. Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Echinoderms in Rocky Nearshore Areas of Alaska. Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory 8:11-28.
Chenelot H. and B. Konar. 2007. Lacuna vincta herbivory on juvenile and adult Nereocystis luetkeana. Hydrobiologia 583:107-118. Download PDF (278 KB)
Hamilton, J. and B. Konar. 2007. The influence of kelp variability and substrate complexity on northern nearshore fish abundance. Fishery Bulletin 105:189-196. Download PDF (323 KB)
Konar, B. 2007. Introduction to Rocky Shore Ecology. Chapter in Y Shirayama and K Iken (eds) Handbook for Sampling Coastal Seagrass and Macroalgae Community Biodiversity. Kyoto University Press.
Konar, B. 2007. Recolonization of a high latitude hard-bottom nearshore community. Polar Biology 30:663-667. Download PDF (242 KB)
Konar, B, R Riosmena-Rodriguez, and K Iken. 2006. Rhodolith bed: a newly discovered habitat in the North Pacific. Botanica Marina 49:355-359. Download PDF (269 KB)
Highsmith, RC, KO Coyle, B Bluhm and B Konar. 2006. Gray whales in the Bering and Chukchi Seas. Chapter In: Estes, J. (ed) Whales, Whaling and Ocean Ecosystems. UC Press. 303-314.
Konar, B and K Iken. 2005. Competitive dominance among sessile marine organisms in a high Arctic boulder community. Polar Biology 29: 61-64. Download PDF (190 KB)
Brewer, R and B Konar. 2005. Chemosensory responses and foraging behavior of the seastar, Pycnopodia helianthoides. Marine Biology 147: 789-795. Download PDF (244 KB)
Estes, JA, EM Danner, DF Doak, B Konar, AM Springer, PD Steinberg, MT Tinker and TM Williams. 2004. Complex trophic interactions in kelp forest ecosystems. Bulletin of Marine Science 74: 621-638. Download PDF (1 MB)
Konar, B and JA Estes. 2003. The stability of boundary regions between kelp beds and deforested areas. Ecology 84: 174-185. Download PDF (132 KB)
Iken, K and B Konar. 2003. Geografia natural en areas costeras (NaGISA): El componente costero del censo de la vida marina. Gayana (67(2): 153-160. Download PDF (74 KB)
Konar, B. 2001. Effects of varying macroalgal cover on a subarctic sea urchin population. Polar Biology 24:754-763.
Konar, B. 2000. Seasonal inhibitory affects of marine plants on sea urchins: structuring communities the algal way. Oecologia 125:208-217. Download PDF (144 KB)
Konar, B. 2000. Limited effects of a keystone species: trends of sea otters and kelp forest at the Semichi Islands, Alaska. Marine Ecology Progress Series 199:271-280. Download PDF (886 KB)
Konar, B and C Roberts. 1996. Large scale landslide effects on two exposed rocky subtidal areas in California. Botanica Marina. 39:517-524.
Lenihan, HS, KA Kiest, KE Conlan, PN Slattery, BH Konar and JS Oliver. 1995. Patterns of survival and behavior in Antarctic benthic invertebrates exposed to contaminated sediments: Field and laboratory bioassay experiments. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 192:233-255.
Konar, B. 1993. Demography and morphology of the geniculate coralline, Bossiella californica ssp. schmittii (Corallinales, Rhodophyta) in a central California kelp forest. Phycologia. 32:284-291.
Konar, B and MS Foster. 1992. Distribution and recruitment of subtidal geniculate coralline algae. Journal of Phycology. 28:273-280.
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