Temperature Impact on Coho Salmon Population in Anchorage, Alaska

By Lauren Miguel, Hana Power, and Ariana Swoyer
Biomedicine/Biosystems
iCons Year 1
2021
Advisors: 
Justin Fermann, Chemistry
Christiane Healey, Biology
Jared Starr, iCons
Temperature Impact on Coho Salmon Population in Anchorage, Alaska
Executive Summary 

We investigated the relationship between climate change, specifically the average rise of atmospheric temperature in Anchorage, and how that affects salmon population. We hypothesis that a rise in atmospheric temperature will result in a decrease in salmon population.

Problem Keywords 
climate change
salmon
temperature
atmosphere

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