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Teshekpuk Lake Observatory
Teshekpuk Lake is the largest lake in the Alaskan Arctic and the third largest lake in the state. The Teshekpuk Lake region provides important habitat to a wide variety of... -
Variation in winter diet of southern Beaufort Sea polar bears inferred from stable isotype analysis
Stable isotope analysis to determine the diet composition of polar bears as sampled along the Beaufort Sea coast in March and April 2003 and 2004. Bentzen, T.W., E. H. Follmann,... -
Organohalogen concentrations in blood and adipose tissue of Southern Beaufort Sea polar bears
151 organohalogen chemicals (OHCs) in whole blood and subcutaneous fat of 57 polar bears sampled along the Alaskan Beaufort Sea coast in spring, 2003 were analyzed for major... -
Alaska Climate Datasets - SNAP
The following datasets are climate projections for the state of Alaska based on downscaled outputs from five IPCC Global Circulation models. They include average monthly air... -
Physical, Biological and Chemical Implications of Mid-Winter Pumping of Tundra Lakes - WERC
Water and Environmental Research Center's Tundra Lake Recharge Project Web site contains hydrologic information of tundra lakes on the North Slope of Alaska. This information is... -
Precipitation Decrease in the Western Arctic with Special Emphasis on Barrow and Barter Island, Alaska
Over the Arctic during the last few decades a decrease in annual precipitation and snow depths have been observed; this decrease is especially pronounced during the winter... -
Genetic Variation, Relatedness, and Effective Population Size of Polar Bears (Ursus maritimus) in the southern Beaufort Sea, Alaska
Polar bears (Ursus maritimus) are unique among bears in that they are adapted to the Arctic sea ice environment. Genetic data are useful for understanding their evolution and... -
Understanding the impacts of thermokarst lakes on permafrost stability, C cycling and greenhouse gas emissions
This research integrates field studies in a range of disciplines (geomorphology, geophysics, paleoecology, hydrology, limnology) with process modeling of permafrost thaw, lake... -
Reduction of Garbage in the Diet of Nonbreeding Glaucous Gulls Corresponding to a Change in Waste Management
Glaucous gulls (Larus hyperboreus) are major predators in the Arctic and may benefit from human development. We studied use of garbage by glaucous gulls in Barrow, Alaska, in... -
Ways to Help and Ways to Hinder: Governance for Effective Adaptation to an Uncertain Climate
This paper compares two case studies in Alaska, one on commercial fishers of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands region and the other on moose hunters of Interior Alaska, to... -
Salt Marshes of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
The purpose of this study was to map all salt marshes along the coastline of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, from the Canning River to the Canadian border. These salt... -
WERC North Slope Hydrology Research Projects
Monitoring stations dispersed throughout the North Slope and other parts of northern Alaska record metrological, hydrological and soil data. Publications: Adhikari, H; Barnes,... -
Dietary biomagnification of organochlorine contaminants in Alaskan polar bears
The variation in PCB153 and oxychlordane concentration are strong indicators of variation in diet and biomagnification of organochlorines among polar bears related to their sex,... -
Barrow Historical Monthly Climate Summary - Alaska Climate Research Center
Historical monthly summaries for Barrow 1992 to present. -
Crude Oil Movement in Sea Ice; Development and Validation of a Parametric Model of Oil Migration (16-10-08)
Economic interests of the oil and gas industry as well as the maritime shipping sector have increased in the Arctic over the past few decades. Despite a decline in the summer... -
Global Radiation Measurements in Fairbanks, Alaska
Daily measurements of the sun's radiation are taken from the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and data are published online and summarized monthly. -
Toolik-Arctic Geobotanical Atlas (TAGA)
The Toolik-Arctic Geobotanical Atlas (TAGA) is a web-based multi-scale collection of geobotanical maps and related material. It includes maps at seven different scales, from... -
The Importance of Shelf Break Upwelling to Upper Trophic Level Ecology in the Western Beaufort Sea
The Beaufort Sea shelf break experiences frequent upwelling of deep, nutrient rich basin water onto the shelf. Such upwelling is not only a short-term source of heat, salt, and... -
Shrub Impacts on Nitrogen Inputs and Turnover in the Arctic, and the Potential Feedbacks to Vegetation and Climate Change
This project will assess the contributions of different shrub feedbacks to carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) cycling. Snow depth will be manipulated with existing snow fences across a... -
The roles of plant roots, mycorrhizal fungi and uptake of deep nitrogen in the permafrost carbon feedback to warming climate
Release of carbon frozen in permafrost (frozen ground) has been identified as one of the strongest and most likely positive feedbacks between the biosphere and the warming...
