Introduction

summarize the results of the 2019 and 2020 expeditions to study the winter ecology of Pacific salmon in the Gulf of Alaska. Virtual presentations were made in an international conference from April 20 -22, 2021 and are available at sites listed in Table 1. The preliminary results of the expeditions are summarized in cruise reports by Pakhomov et al. (2019) and Somov et al. (2020). The two expeditions were privately funded and organized by Drs. Richard Beamish and Brian Riddell with the help of the North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission and the Pacific Salmon Foundation. Donors to these expeditions are too numerous to list, but range from individual