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
Programs:
Programs:
Programs:
Polar Bears (USGS)
-studies of denning habitat (in
monitoring phase) using DEM and
IFSAR data for mapping purposes
Polar Bears (USGS)
-Telemetry studies, status and trends,
population, mark, recapture
ADFG (NW Arctic portion)
CaribouTeshepuk Lake herd, W. Arctic herd
-using radio collars and satellite collars
to document range expansion
ADFG (NW Arctic portion)
Caribou
-Teshepuk Lake and W. Arctic
-Fall composition surveys (Oct.)
-Photo census every 3 yrs., one just
completed in July
-Spring short tearling surveys- calf
survival/produc.
-Winter range-wide telemetry survey of
both herds (Feb/Mar)
-June- calving ground survey to document
calving period and estimate number of
Polar Bears (USGS)
-denning
-den detection using thermal remote
sensing
-den disturbance through all phases of
denning
-implications of climate induced
changes to sea ice environment (just
starting)
NOAANational Marine Mammal Stranding
Database
Caribou (USGS)
-(with Brad Griffith) effects of
interannual climate variability to the
range conditions on calving grounds
(timing of snow melts…)
BLMCadastral surveys and mapping
(legal boundary determination)
geographical coordinate databasecontains all federal surveys for N.
Slope- native allotments, boundaries
for state and native lands
BP- Marine Mammal Research
Seals and Whales rel. to Northstar
project on Beaufort sea
Whales-monitor noise (undersea
hydrophones)
-Hydrophone recording ambient noise
-North star weather station
TNCEco-regional assessment-developed terrestrial and veg.
landscape model from Brooks Range
North, incl. Canada
-freshwater classification map
-classification of shoreline that includes
offshore influences
-Species
-compilation of information database
-digitized studies
population composed of calves (for both
herds)
-Village surveys to estimate harvest by
local residents
ADFG- Musk Ox
-census every 2 years, Cape
Thompson herd (starting now)
Moose-Colville River population-surveys done in spring every year to
determine productivity of population
-census every 3 yrs. (statistical
sampling)
Wolves
-survey is done every 3 yrs. to estimate
population from Colville River drainage
Fish and wildlife harvests
BP- see website on Env. Studies
program for more information
-Undersea seafloor recorders,
directional record whale calls
throughout migration
-ringed seals and impact from ice
roads, island effects on distribution,
reaction
-long-term vegetation monitoring
projects
-spill monitoring
ADFG- Brown bear Research Project
(E. portion/NPR-A)
NMFS- developed marine mammal
acoustic model- sound
levels/frequencies to develop
thresholds of take for MMA/ESA
thresholds for harassment and injury
BP- Marine Mammal Research
Seals and Whales rel. to Northstar
project on Beaufort sea
-Undersea seafloor recorders
-Air quality and water quality research
-trenching trial research (ground
disturbance and rehab)
ADNR
-grizzly/Prudhoe Bay project
-calving/oil fields-productivity
ADFG sportfish
-DV wintering/spawning areaspatterns of movement just prior to
spawning and wintering and where
they go (scheduled to continue)
DNR-tundra access program,
Defined land status map
Working on offshore map that
describes variability of sea floor
Climate Change Assessment/resiliency and sensitivity
characterization
Species habitat modeling for terrestrial
species and birds
Spatial- Decision support tool to
optimize conservation decisions and
policy support
-better refinement of offshore model for
physical habitat and species
-characterize stresses to system and
forecast implications of anthropogenic
changes
-identify threshold of change until past
the brink of restoration
Working with village of Wainwright to
develop traditional use plan
ADNR-Grizzly bear dens (ADFG project)
-Conoco Phillips- fox den surveysNPR-A (one more year left)
-Conco-Phillips/Anandarko-
-pipeline monitoring (integrity)
modeling,hyp-testing
-field-wide corrosion inspection
-LEOS system- oil detection monitoring DNR- telemetry- movement and habitat
system
use of key (fish) subsistence species in
NPR-A started in 1997
ADNR
ADFG- grizzly bears
Conoco Phillips-hydrology research
Caribou, Moose, musk ox
in NW NPR-A
Conoco-Phillips- lake/water chemistry
monitoring for lakes used as water
sources for ice roads/municipal uses
(in Alpine area) continuous since lakes
were used as water source.
Rehabilitated flood and gravel mines
-monitoring for fish/water quality
changes (since 1980s)
MMS-Manages multi-disciplinary ESP on
adjacent outer-continental shelf
See www.mms.gov/eppd/sciences/esp
Meso-scale monitoring of industrial
sites
Endangered species migration
Physical processes
Sociocultural and subsistence factors
-Highly coordinated, collaborative,
cooperative
BLM- gauging stations in NPR-A
ADNR- physical and behavior effects
of vibroseis on fish
ADNR- effectiveness of cross-drainage
structures in oil fields on passing fishradio transmitters
MMS- (see inventory and monitoring)
--Manages multi-disciplinary ESP on
adjacent outer-continental shelf
See www.mms.gov/eppd/sciences/esp
lake surveys (NPR-A/foothills)
gill nets, fish, water quality, bathymetry
MMS funded project to look at ways to
better inventory fish wintering areas
(Sag River delta, Colville River)
MMS--Estimates oil/gas resources on outercontinental shelf
-Manages multi-disciplinary ESP on
adjacent outer-continental shelf
See www.mms.gov/eppd/sciences/esp
ADFGAnadromous fish stream cataloging
USGSHydrology-4 long term gauging
stations, long-term records- consistent
Biology- migratory waterfowlinventory, monitoring and research
Marine Mammal tissue archivecooperative projectGeography- mapping, baseline
cartographic mapping, digital elevation
modeling, large scale- high res.
Vegetation mapping, comprehensive
mapping across slope- LANDSAT
Land cover status and trends programchanges over past 2 decades
LANDSAT 7 program- satellite
imagery- 24 year record of data
NDVI- vegetation indices
mapping/monitoring
Geology-continued update of oil and
gas and coal, gas hydrates, methanepotential and proven reserves
Updating geologic base-map
Subsurface temperature monitoring