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North Slope Infrastructure (V13): Roads, Pipelines and Developed Areas - Update 03/22/2023
This North Slope infrastructure GIS dataset includes roads (line), pipelines (line) and developed areas (polygon) as separate feature classes. Downloads are in shapefile and... -
NSSI Lakes Data: SAR Mapping Winter Liquid Water Availability on the North Slope Coastal Plain
Shapefiles and Report The North Slope coastal plain represents a unique landscape that is characterized by permafrost and an immense number of freshwater lakes of varying sizes... -
Ecological Mapping and Permafrost Database for Northern Alaska (Final Ecological Mapping Update (2014))
Note:This revision updates the geodatabase and shapefiles associated with the prior Landscape Level Ecological Mapping of Northern Alaska (NOAK). It includes recoding of some... -
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... -
Arctic Whale Ecology Study (ARCWEST)
Use passive acoustics, oceanography, satellite tagging, and visual surveys to investigate the source of cetacean prey and its influence on distribution and abundance. Focusing... -
Oil in Ice: Transport, Fate, and Potential Exposure
The purpose of this project has been to provide a basis and methodology for estimating routes and magnitudes of potential environmental exposures and concentrations of oil... -
Contaminant Deposition
Despite the pristine appearance of the arctic parklands, the steady input of contaminants from both local and global sources make pollution a primary concern in ARCN. Sources of... -
Episodic Upwelling of Zooplankton within a Bowhead Whale Feeding Area near Barrow, AK
Our long term goals are to understand 1 the biological-physical oceanographic characteristics and mechanisms on the shelf near Barrow, AK that together produce a favorable... -
Pre-migratory Movements and Physiology of Shorebirds Staging on Beaufort Sea Littoral Zone (AK-93-48-56)
This project was initiated in 2004 to gain a better understanding of the overall ecology of postbreeding shorebirds during the staging period and to inform future assessments of... -
Understanding Predators (Gulls) - Use of anthropogenic foods by glaucous gull in Northern Alaska
Glaucous Gulls (Larus hyperboreus) are one of the major predators on Alaska’s North Slope and benefit from human activity. As development for oil production continues, Glaucous... -
Bowhead Whale Study - Accoustics
The NSB DWM has conducted acoustic surveys in most years since 1984 (more on tacoustics data at NSB website). The acoustic data have been used to locate whales and make call... -
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... -
Traditional Knowledge Regarding Bowhead Whales in the Chukchi Sea (AK-93-48-68)
Bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) are an important subsistence and cultural resource for coastal people of western and northern Alaska, as well as an important component of... -
Study of Sharing Networks to Assess the Vulnerabilities of Local Communities to Oil and Gas Development Impacts in Arctic Alaska (AK-05-04a)
This study documented and analyzed social networks of sharing and cooperation that are part of Alaska Native subsistence-cash economies, and explored the potentail vulnerability... -
Subsistence Study for North Aleutian Basin (AK-08-06)
This study serves the final report for the North Aleutian Basin Subsistence Study on the people and subsistence activities in the villages around the proposed North Aleutian... -
Chukchi Offshore Monitoring in Drilling Area (COMIDA)
The November 2006 COMIDA workshop described the importance of benthos and chemical monitoring to evaluate the health of the Chukchi ecosystem. The BOEM Scientific Committee (SC)... -
Nearshore fish assemblages in a changing Beaufort Sea
In the Arctic, rapid changes in temperature and salinity have led to changes in where fish commonly occur. Recent offshore survey efforts also provide an opportunity to compare... -
Functional Diversity of Epibenthic Communities on the Chukchi and Beaufort Sea Shelves (AK-13-03-27)
Functional diversity of epibenthic communities on the Chukchi and Beaufort Sea shelves were compared using biological trait analysis (BTA). BTA functionally characterizes... -
Surface Current Circulation High Frequency (HF) Radar Mapping in the Chukchi Sea (AK-09-06)
The shallow (50 m) Chukchi shelf extends 800 km northward from Bering Strait to the shelfbreak along the 200 m isobath. The Chukchi Sea flow field is influenced by the winds;... -
Satellite-Tracked Drifter Measurements in the Northeast Chukchi Sea (AK-08-12-08)
This study was initiated to better understand the surface circulation in the Chukchi Sea, which is not well-measured by subsurface moorings. The overall goal of this program was...