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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... -
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... -
Chukchi Sea Environmental Studies Program: Benthic
Primary production reaching the sea floor is consumed by benthic organisms (animals living in or closely associated with sediments) allowing these communities to flourish in the... -
Contaminants, and Habitat Characteristics in Yellow-billed Loon, 2002-2012
The Yellow-billed Loon (Gavia adamsii) is one of the rarest breeding birds in North America. Because of the small population size and patchy distribution, any stressor to its... -
USGS Gas Hydrates Project
Study gas hydrates by a variety of methods, but the ANS task is focused on determining what is the ultimate resource potential of the known gas hydrate and associated free-gas... -
Earthquake Monitoring in Alaska
This project is working to maintain and improve earthquake monitoring in Alaska, with a focus on urban areas, critical facilities, and relatively likely sources of earthquakes... -
Arctic Fox Oral Vaccine Trials
A trip in January was unsuccessful capturing arctic foxes because the population was very low. A trip in November successfully captured 12 foxes which were transported to UAF... -
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... -
North Slope Whitefish Studies
Coastal and watershed areas between Barrow and Deadhorse are the focus of broad whitefish studies. Topics of investigation include fidelity to summer feeding areas, and spawning... -
Arctic Oil Spill Response Technology: Joint Industry Programme (JIP)
The Arctic Oil Spill Response Technology Joint Industry Programme (JIP) was initiated in 2012 under the auspices of the International Association of Oil and Gas Producers... -
Satellite-tracked Surface Drifter Measurements off Barrow, Pt. Hope, Pt. Lay, Wainwright, and Kaktovik, Alaska
The purpose of this project is to assess the variability of near shore surface circulation (upper 1 meter) off the coast of Barrow and Wainwright. The North Slope Borough has... -
Restoration of Sedges on Old Gravel Sites in Wetland Communities on Alaska’s North Slope
Study the seed germination and fitness of 2 wetland sedges that are common in the arctic for the potential use in reclaiming old gravel pads and similarly disturbed wetland... -
Nuiqsut: Lidar
This high resolution LiDAR dataset of the village of Nuiqsut is part of a series of 2013 LiDAR and imagery collections by EPSCoR Northern Test Case. This LiDAR was collected at... -
Breeding Ecology of Shorebirds at Barrow
2012 will be the ninth year of a long-term study to determine factors limiting population size of shorebirds. The Barrow camp is one of 10 camps belonging to the Arctic... -
Fish Mold Surveillance (Saprolegnia sp.)
Saprolegnia is a water mold that was found on Aanaakłiq by Nuiqsut fishermen during the fall of 2013 to 2016. The cause of these recent cases of Saprolegniosis is not yet known.... -
Chukchi Sea Environmental Studies Program: Chemical Oceanography
The primary objective of the ocean acidification program is to describe spatial, seasonal and interannual variability in the marine carbon cycle to assess the extent and... -
Fish Habitat Management & Monitoring Related to Oil and Gas Exploration in the NPRA
Develops fish habitat management guidelines & industry monitoring requirements for area-specific exploration; conducts on-site monitoring evaluations (ROP effectiveness... -
Restoration of Sedges on Old Gravel Sites in Wetland Communities on Alaska's North Slope
BP Alaska and Alaska Sea Grant recently awarded UAF scientists a two-year $100,000 Challenge Grant to study reclamation techniques using two tundra sedge species (Carex... -
Chukchi Sea Environmental Studies Program: Benthic Ecology
Primary production reaching the sea floor is consumed by benthic organisms (animals living in or closely associated with sediments) allowing these communities to flourish in the... -
Alaska North Slope Gas Hydrate Reservoir Characterization
The goal of this project is to characterize the large in-place methane hydrate resource on the Alaska North Slope (ANS) and to conduct field and lab studies to determine the...
