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Estimates of Subsistence Harvest for Villages on the North Slope of Alaska
The North Slope Borough has made a commitment to develop information about the region’s subsistence harvest and to share some of this information with the public, state and... -
Polar Bear Denning Resources
This entry is a composite of several studies and methods for investigating polar bear den locations, habitats, and behavior. -
Bowhead Whale Subsistence Harvest Research
This research has been ongoing since the early 1980’s with many other collaborators in the past, including: Tom Albert, Harry Brower, Jr., Taqulik Hepa, Charlie Brower, Cyd... -
COMIDA: Impact Monitoring for Offshore Subsistence Hunting (AK-08-04)
Monitoring efforts were initiated in 2009 and focused on offshore subsistence hunting for key marine mammals (bowhead and beluga whales, walrus, seals, and polar bears) in the... -
Chukchi Offshore Monitoring in Drilling Area (COMIDA): Factors Affecting the Distribution and Relative Abundance of Endangered Whales and Other Marine Mammals in the Chukchi Sea
The Chukchi Sea shelf is a bathymetrically complex region where air-sea-ice interactions govern ecosystem structure and function. CHAOZ used a combination of autonomous moored... -
Arctic Ecosystems Analysis
This series of reports (Oct 01, 1976 - Sep 01, 1982) document the importance of the barrier island-lagoon systems of the Alaska Beaufort Sea and Simpson Lagoon-Jones Islands to... -
Bowhead Whale Feeding Variability in the Western Beaufort Sea: Feeding Observations and Oceanographic Measurements and Analyses (BOWFEST) (AK-06-01)
Research is aimed to explain increased occurrences of bowheads feeding in the Western Beaufort Sea, well west of the typical summer feeding aggregations in the Canadian Beaufort... -
Pacific Walrus Population Monitoring
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, in collaboration with the U.S. Geological Survey and Russian scientists from GiproRybFlot and ChukotTINRO, conducted a range-wide survey of... -
National Marine Mammal Tissue Bank
Tissue is collected from marine mammals, such as polar bears, whales, seals and walruses that are accidentally taken by industry, hunted for subsistence or have died stranded. -
Understanding the Ecology of Pacific Walrus Populations to Support Department of Interior Regulatory Agencies and Provide Information to Native Subsistence Communities
Using radio tagging to investigate changes in Pacific walrus movements, breeding and hunting in response to climate change and human influence on habitat. Climate change and its... -
Chukchi Sea Subsistence Monitoring
These studies provide long-term monitoring data to assess and mitigate potential direct and indirect (downstream) effects on offshore subsistence hunting and sharing network... -
Polar Bear Population Monitoring
Polar bear population is tracked through aerial surveys, monitoring harvests by indigenous communities and incidental deaths caused by the oil and gas industry. Polar bear... -
Understanding and Forecasting the Response of Polar Bear Populations to a Rapidly Diminishing Sea Ice Environment
Focus is polar bear diet, habitat use, population dynamics, effects of climate change and human interactions, and other topics related to polar bear ecology. The Polar Bear... -
Aerial Surveys of Arctic Marine Mammals (ASAMM) (AK-10-05)
BOEM conducted aerial surveys from aimed at evaluating the distribution and habitat use of bowhead whales in the Beaufort Sea during the fall migration period. Similar... -
Continuation of Impact Assessment for Cross Island Whaling Activities (AK-08-01)
This study has roots in the ANIMIDA project, but later branched out as its own. The purpose is to record subsistence hunting habits on Cross Island and evaluate whether the oil... -
ANIMIDA III: Contaminants, Sources, and Bioaccumulation
BOEM has sponsored many long-term monitoring projects in the Beaufort Sea including the Arctic Nearshore Impact Monitoring in the Development Area (ANIMIDA) Project (1999 -... -
Oooguruk Development Project
The Oooguruk project is located in the Alaskan Beaufort Sea and consists of a 6 acre gravel drill site approximately 5 miles offshore in 4.5 feet of water. The drill site is... -
Satellite Tracking of Western Arctic Bowhead Whales
Conducted by the Marine Mammal Program. Satellite tracking of Bowhead whales in the Beaufort Sea, especially monitoring activity near oil and gas activities, stock structure,... -
Beaufort Subsistence Activities Monitoring
This group of studies establishes long-term monitoring data to help assess effects of OCS oil and gas development activities on subsistence hunting in the Beaufort Seas. The...
