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ConocoPhillips Environmental Field Study Summaries (2020-2023)
Each year ConocoPhillips conducts scientific field studies throughout the Colville River and northeastern National Petroleum Reserve – Alaska (NPR-A) on the North Slope of... -
NSSI Scenarios GIS Data: Prioritizing Science Needs Through Participatory Scenarios for Energy and Resource Development on the North Slope and Adjacent Seas.
This record contains the data used by the North Slope Science Initiative (NSSI) scenario process. These data sets are listed in the Alaska DataCatalog. The data sets are... -
Promoting Spill Preparedness in Western Arctic Parks with the Community Integrated Coastal Response Project
The objective of this study is to investigate the impact and effectiveness traditional “dig and haul” cleanup procedures have on drainage at an Arctic spill site and to monitor... -
Wild Fish and Salmon Subsistence Harvest Assessment in Selected North Slope Borough Communities
These reports summarize subsistence use of fish resources for selected North Slope communities. -
Harvest and Use of Wild Foods
These reports summarize the results of research conducted on the harvest and use of wild food by North Slope and Interior communities. The 2016 report includes Utqiagvik,... -
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... -
Trends in Spatial Patterns of Heavy Metal Deposition on National Park Service Lands along the Red Dog Mine Haul Road, Alaska, 2001–2006.
The Red Dog Mine has produced lead and zinc concentrates year-round since its start up in 1989. After milling and refining at the mine, the powder-consistency concentrates are... -
Subsistence Harvest Documentation
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 state and federal... -
Social Indicators in Coastal Alaska: Arctic Communities (AK-11-09)
This study carried out an OMB approved information collection that involved surveys administered to 684 heads of households in the Arctic coastal communities of Point Hope,... -
Migratory Bird Subsistence Harvest Reports
Monitoring spring and summer subsistence harvests of migratory birds in Alaska is part of the management and conservation efforts required under the Migratory Bird Treaty with... -
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... -
Subsistence Use within the North Slope Borough
This map product details the extent and type of subsistence activities occurring within the North Slope Borough. -
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... -
ADOG North Slope Notification Lessee Map
This map is produced by the Alaska Department of Oil and Gas (ADOG) and it depicts lease ownership on the North Slope according to notification lessee. These maps are updated... -
Aggregate Effects Research and Environmental Mitigation Monitoring of Oil Industry Operations in the Vicinity of Nuiqsut (AK-08)
Over the years, agencies, industry, and local residents have adopted measures from documented studies or worked to develop new mitigation measures intended to lessen the impacts... -
Gas Hydrate Dynamics on the Alaskan Beaufort Continental Slope: Modeling and Field Characterization
The goal of this research is to assess the contemporary state of the upper continental slope in the Alaskan Beaufort Sea to determine if gas hydrates are in equilibrium with... -
Caribou Health Assessment
The goals of this guide are to provide anyone spending time outdoors with basic information about caribou health conditions that may be observed during wildlife viewing,... -
North Slope Decision Support for Water Resource Planning and Management (DE-NT0005683)
Water is an essential component of the North Slope environment. Local communities use lakes and rivers for access to subsistence resources and to sustain those same resources... -
Village-based Walrus Studies
Working cooperatively with the Eskimo Walrus Commission and walrus hunters from Alaskan coastal communities, we designed a study to deploy satellite transmitters and conduct...
