On-going and recent work
Arctic Fish Health
Principal investigator Dr Morag Clinton recently returned from the North Slope of Alaska where she was collecting important data on fish health in a changing climate. Morag spent ten days in northern Alaska with Toolik Field Station as a base to capture Arctic Grayling and collect water samples from different watersheds. Establishing a baseline of fish health in the circumpolar north is important towards understanding future changes in disease presence and prevalence within fish stocks that are likely naive to many of the diseases found further south. This work involved clinical assessment of live fish and necropsies to investigate populations for evidence of pathogen presence, as well as collecting water and eDNA to understand the presence of potential pathogens within Arctic aquatic environments. |
This work was conducted with the support of a TUNDRA award for fieldwork at Toolik, as well as research permits from ADF&G.
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