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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... -
Onshore/Nearshore: ABR ONES Desktop Studies 2014-2015 Final Reports
Shell Exploration & Production Company (Shell) initiated the Onshore/Nearshore Environmental Studies (ONES) program starting in 2010 to address environmental issues... -
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... -
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... -
Microbial Biodegradation Of Alaska North Slope Crude Oil In Arctic Marine Sediments
This project investigated the biodegradation of Alaska North Slope crude oil and Corexit 9500 (Corexit) in Arctic seawater and sediments to identify the microbes and genes... -
Identifying Sources of Organic Matter to Benthic Organisms in the Beaufort and Chukchi OCS (AK-13-03-15)
Benthic invertebrate communities are an essential ecosystem component in Arctic food webs, however the proportional contributions of different sources of organic matter (marine,... -
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... -
Using Trace Elements in Pacific Walrus Teeth to Track the Impacts of Petroleum Production in the Alaskan Arctic (AK-13-03-26)
Offshore oil and gas exploration and extraction have the potential to introduce harmful materials into marine food webs. These pollutants are typically associated with... -
Dispersal Patterns and Summer Ocean Distribution of Adult Dolly Varden from the Wulik River, Alaska, Evaluated Using Satellite Telemetry (AK-08-12)
In northwest Alaska near the Chukchi Sea, Dolly Varden charr Salvelinus malma is highly valued as a subsistence fish and local residents harvest thousands of these fish each... -
Chukchi Acoustic, Oceanography and Zooplankton Study: Hanna Shoal (Extension of CHAOZ) (AK-13-02)
This study contributes to our understanding of high biological activity around Hanna Shoal in the Northeast Chukchi Sea and examined potential factors that make this an area of... -
Characterizing Bacterial Communities in Beaufort Sea Sediments in a Changing Arctic (AK-13-03-19)
Reduced sea ice cover has shifted marine productivity patterns in the Arctic. These shifts affect the quality and quantity of organic matter (OM) deposited to the seafloor and... -
2018 Willow Marine Monitoring Program Report
Collection of sediment, benthos and water samples was performed during open-water conditions during August 2018 at selected stations within Harrison Bay. Sediment was... -
Chukchi Sea Environmental Studies Program: Seabirds
The seabird ecology component collects data on the distribution and abundance of seabirds in the northeastern Chukchi Sea in the vicinity of several oil and gas lease areas and... -
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... -
Environmental Effects from Arctic Oil Spills
In the event of an oil spill, there are always major concerns about the severity of environmental effects. In the Arctic, this concern is even higher because of the assumption... -
Circulation, Cross-shelf Exchange, Sea Ice, and Marine Mammal Habitats on the Alaskan Beaufort Sea Shelf
The team proposes to carry out a joint physical/biological program to enhance the understanding of how the ABS atmosphere/ice/ocean/marine-mammal system works and what some of... -
Arctic Climate Impact Assessment
The Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA) is a study describing the ongoing climate change in the Arctic and its consequences: rising temperatures, loss of sea ice,... -
The effects of use of dispersant and in situ burning on Arctic marine organisms - A laboratory study
This report details the findings of a field experiment in which an Arctic amphipod was exposed to both dispersants and polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAH). Seawater and tissue... -
Lagoon Communities and Ecosystems
The total shoreline in the ARCN, including bay and barrier island ecosystems, is approximately 450 km (250 miles). This is the third largest block of coastline that the NPS... -
Synthesis of Arctic Research
Our goal is to increase scientific understanding of the relationships among oceanographic conditions, benthic organisms, lower trophic prey species (forage fish and...
