Lingering Chukchi Sea sea ice and Chukchi Sea mean winds influence population age structure of euphausiids (krill) found in the bowhead whale feeding hotspot near Pt. Barrow, Alaska

• Carin J. Ashjian ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Carin J. Ashjian, Stephen R. Okkonen

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: cashjian@whoi.edu

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7894-1519

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• Stephen R. Okkonen ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Carin J. Ashjian, Stephen R. Okkonen

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation College of Ocean and Fisheries Science, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska, United States of America

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• Robert G. Campbell,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, Rhode Island United States of America

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• Philip Alatalo

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8698-3148

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