NSSI Information Exchange Workshop
Breakout Session Worksheet 3
What inventory, monitoring and research projects and programs are you aware of that are
ongoing and planned on the North Slope?
1. List
2. Note the temporal and spatial scales.
Inventory
Monitoring
Research
Projects:
Projects:
Projects:
NOAA- Aerial surveys for markrecapture of bowhead whales
NOAA- Acoustic monitoring
(bowhead, ice seals)
USGS- waterfowl, polar bear, sea
ducks inventory/ monitoring;
hydrologic & coastal processes
USGS- Digital orthophotoquad
NOAA- ice seal monitoring
DNR- tundra opening criteria testing
FWS- PRISM, methodology
development for inventory of
shorebirds
Programs:
NGOs- Opportunities for public
comment on North Slope activities
BLM/ USGS- change detection &
image resolution study for NPRA
(remote sensing, beginning as far
back as possible)
FWS/ USGS- population dynamics &
nutritional ecology of muskox &
caribou
FWS- migration ecology of king
eiders & long-tail ducks in the
Beaufort Sea
State Wildlife grants (ex.: loon
surveys, non-game conservation
projects)
EPA/ NOAA- Mercury (5 year), air
quality (decades)
Programs:
USGS – National oil & gas
UAF Geophysical Institute-
EPA- Mercury initiative
assessment
ADF&G- marine mammals,
anadromous fish catalog database,
etc. (Call Fairbanks office!)
DNR/ DEC/ oil companies- Inventory
contaminated sites & monitoring
lake ice ALISON
Permafrost network of
sampling
Snow sampling with army
Aerosol tracking
Rocket range across North
Slope
PBTs (Persistent
Bioaccumulative Toxins) initiative
Arctic Council- Arctic Climate
Impact Assessment (physical,
biological, human- out in draft for
review)
International level – oil & gas
assessment sponsored under Arctic
Council AMAP, NOAA chair, EPA &
other agencies, first meeting end of
January, 2004
IARPC- all federal agencies,
SEARCH, looks at changes related
to climate change, related to oil &
gas development
Programs:
State wildlife grants
EPA region 10- oil & gas team
(ongoing, began last year)
USGS- Global Climate Change
Initiative, anadromous fisheries &
polar bears (5 years), North Pacific
Slope-wide
USGS- contaminants in walruses (?)
FWS- Annual North Slope waterfowl
survey
FWS- ecological monitoring on
ANWR
FWS- Numbers, reproductive
success & contaminants of raptors
in the Colville River
UAF Geophysical Institute- SAR
radar data, MODIS, AVHRR from
satellites, databasing, GINA
(Geospatial Info. Network of Alaska),
geodata center, Mather library - well
logs etc.)
NOAA- contaminants work
Arctic Council- CAFF (Conservation
of Arctic flora & fauna)
EPPR (Emergency Preparedness
& response
PAME
& others
NOTE: migratory species we need to
study across their entire range, life
history to really understand them –
not only on North Slope –
implications for funding
(Are these good indicator species?
Is there too much confounding?)