Contact Information

Institute of Marine Science
114 O'Neill
P.O. Box 757220
University of Alaska Fairbanks
Fairbanks, AK 99775-7220
Phone: (907) 474-7834
seth@ims.uaf.edu

Seth Danielson Research Project Manager

• Physical Oceanography

Affiliations

American Geophysical Union
The Oceanography Society

Specialties

Oceanographic data analysis and visualization
Processing of CTD profiles and moored data sets

Education

B.S. 1990 Lehigh University (Electrical Engineering)
M.S. 1996 University of Alaska Fairbanks (Oceanography)

Research Overview

I have been involved with supporting high latitude research projects at SFOS since 1993, primarily in partnership with Dr. Tom Weingartner, professor of physical oceanography. Our focus is the study of shelf circulation processes, with particular emphasis on buoyancy driven flows, nearshore circulation and long term monitoring. We maintain active research in all of Alaska's marginal seas: the Gulf of Alaska, the Bering Sea, the Chukchi Sea and the Beaufort Sea. In addition to the ongoing research projects, I am once again enrolled at a student and am directing my PhD studies toward understanding the Bering Sea shelf physical environment: maintenance of fronts and stratification and the exchange of waters from the basin to the shelf.

Current Research Projects

Modeling of Circulation in the North Aleutian Basin (MMS)
Ship Soundings 1-km Gridded Bathymetric Data Set
Bering Sea Ecosystem Study (BEST) Mooring Deployments (NSF)
Norton Sound Retrospective Bottom Trawl Survey Study (NPRB)
Nearshore Underice Currents in the Beaufort Sea (MMS)
Mooring deployments in Bering Strait (NOAA-CIFAR)
Analysis of BASIS CTD data over the Bering Sea Shelf (NOAA)
Long-term monitoring at Gulf of Alaska station GAK1 (EVOS & NPRB)
Kuskokwim Bay Drifter Deployments (AYKSSI)