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A Report on the Snow Cover of the 1002 Area of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, 2014-2019
Since 2014, scientists at the University of Alaska Fairbanks have conducted snow research in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge 1002 area, the first such research since the... -
Grizzly bears on the North Slope and in the Arctic NWR
Grizzly bears in arctic Alaska are living at the edge of their range and are an important component of predator-prey systems. We are using GSP/satellite collars on grizzly bears... -
ANWR Landscape Change Detection
Rapid warming has occurred over the past 50 years in Arctic Alaska, where temperature strongly affects ecological patterns and processes. To document landscape change over a... -
FWS Pacific Walrus Information
This website contains information on walrus distribution, migration, food and habitat requirements, growth and reproduction, sensory perception and disturbance and natural... -
FWS Polar Bear Information
Section 117 of the Marine Mammal Protection Act, as amended in 1994, requires the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to report periodically on the status of marine mammal stocks... -
Teshekpuk Lake Molting Goose Survey
The significance of the Teshekpuk Lake area to molting geese was first documented by Henry (Hank) Hansen and Jim King in 1957 (King 1970), and the importance of the area as... -
Pacific Walrus Stock Assessment Reports
Section 117 of the Marine Mammal Protection Act, as amended in 1994, requires the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to report periodically on the status of marine mammal stocks... -
Population Trends and Demography of Moose in Arctic NWR
Distribution and demographic characteristics of moose in the Refuge. This is a very low density population. -
Population Estimation and Surveillance for Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N1 in Live Captured Breeding Shorebirds in the Teshekpuk Lake Special Area, National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska
In 2005, a U.S. Interagency Strategic Plan was developed to sample wild bird species in North America that have the highest risk of being exposed to or infected with HPAI;... -
Archive: Yellow-Billed Loon Geodatabase and Shapefiles (2009)
This data set has been updated and the more recent (2013) database is available at the link below. The registry is composed of a geodatabase with two files that represents... -
SURVEY OF DISTURBANCE TO ALPINE TUNDRA IN ATIGUN GORGE FROM SNOW-VEHICLE TRAFFIC IN NOVEMBER 2003
Snow vehicles operated by Alyeska Pipeline Service Company (Alyeska) traveled from the Dalton Highway into Atigun Gorge in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in November, 2003,... -
Surveillance for highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 in live captured tundra swans in Northwest Alaska
Surveillance for highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 in live captured tundra swans in Northwest Alaska. -
Recovery of alpine tundra vegetation damaged by tracked vehicles in Atigun Gorge
Document time to recovery along a tracked-vehicle trail that was created in 11/03. Vegetation sampled 2004, 2005, and 2007. -
Porcupine Caribou Herd photocensus
Estimate population size of the Porcupine Caribou Herd during the post-calving aggregation period on the Refuge coastal plain. -
Soil temperature monitoring
Temperature data loggers record soil temperatures at over 30 locations in the refuge, to document differences in soil temperature over time and between different landscapes and... -
Caribou overwinter mortality
Document overwinter mortality for adult caribou in the Porcupine Caribou Herd, and investigate implications of observed adult survival on herd population trends. -
Ecology and biogeochemistry of coastal lagoons in Arctic NWR
The complex ecological communities within coastal lagoons of the Arctic NWR appear unique and are relatively poorly understood. These communities support significant... -
Demographics and behavior of polar bears feeding on bowhead whale carcasses at Barter and Cross Islands, Alaska
An investigation of foraging and bowhead whale carcass utilization by polar bears along the Beaufort Sea coast, Alaska. Polar bear demographics (number, age, sex) and activity... -
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... -
Porcupine Caribou Herd productivity and early calf survival
Estimate parturition rate among adult cows, and survival of calves to 1 month. The CAFF Carma website provides further information on circum-arctic caribou populations (see link...
