NSSI Information Exchange Workshop
Breakout Session Worksheet 3
What inventory, monitoring and research projects and programs are you aware of that are
occurring on the North Slope?
1. List
2. Note the temporal and spatial scales.
Inventory
Monitoring
Research
Gary Kofinas, UAF-NSF funded- Sustainability of Arctic
Communities, simulation model and
integrated assessment
-US Canada Arctic Borderlands
Ecological Monitoring Co-opcommunity based ecological
monitoring
-UAF- Regional Resilience and
Adaptation- EIGERT program
Adaptive Management course
BP- Bill StreeverNRDA
Bill Streever- BP-Fish monitoring, sea
ducks, Restoration of 40 sites
BP-Caribou moving on pipelines with
remote cameras
Whales- impacts of subsea noise from
Northstar facility using directional
hydrophones
Tundra bird/predator study
BLM-Historic contaminated sites- site
investigation reports by Defense
agencies
-Inventory of contaminated fish in
Colville River
-Initiation of airborne contaminant
study in NE NPR-A
-watershed assessments
-starting to interview natives on life
history of fish
-archeological and paleontological
inventories
BLM- monitoring shoreline erosion
3 points:
-E. Teshekpuk, Lonely and Kogru
-vegetation monitoring and effects
of ice roads on vegetation in NPR-A
-monitoring impacts of natural
effects on arch. and pal. Sites
BLM-effects on seismic operations
on fish in lakes and streams
-excavation of sites, and
paleoecological research- early
climate change studies in Pleistocene
era. Looks at permafrost degradation
and other climactic changes
Bernie Zak- ARM – Climate Change
Research Project (Barrow)
Understand influence of clouds in
radiance of transfer- how clouds
evolve, predict clouds
NSF- Aerosan project- automated
aircraft, collects data
MTI- DOE satellite, demonstration spy
satellite- North Slope MTI projectimagery. Has base data, wants to
establish archives
USFWS- Arctic fish monitoring
USFWS
project
-nearshore habitat overall- relate
-temperature and salinities
nat. fluctuations w/ nearshore
-Canning River Overwintering
habitat
habitat study
-Monitoring and research program
-Dolly Varden Enumeration on the
for threatened Steller’s eiders
Hulahula River
breeding at Barrow
-small mammal inventory on Coastal -large mammal data sets- muskox,
Plain
caribou
-caribou movements and
-seismic trails
distribution, overwintering
-veg. disturbance of recreation sites
-snow goose distribution and
-public use monitoring
abundance
-cliff-nesting raptors monitoring
-Barrier island bird distribution and
-predator studies
abundance
NPS
USFWS- temperature and salinities
-biological impedance analysis
-contaminants in peregrine falcons
-vascular plants, upper nesting
shorebirds- will turn into long-term
monitoring effort
-wolvering/moose distribution and
productivity study
-subsistence use pattern oral
history projects
-POPs-high lat and high altitude
baseline works with lakes within
Brooks Range for baseline I’d
-Airborne heavy metal deposition
USGS Water resources
Go to Google and type in NWIS
CRRELBrooks Range-snow
depths/chemistry/contaminants
USGS-Water resources
-4 stream gauges for stage and
discharge
-mass balance program on McCall
glacier w. UAF
-Inventory on lake depths on lakes
in North Slope, including chemical
data
Audubon
-2 yr. review and synthesis of
Western Arctic (published project)
- tundra bird predator study, see
WCS website
Audubon
-Jon Bart- USGS (ID)- project on
developing protocol for monitoring
shorebird distribution and
productivity
Toolik Field Station (over 300
researchers during summer)
See Arctic LTER homepage
- Research and monitoring- fish,
population studies, plankton,
trophic studies, lake trout,
limnology, lake chemistry,
atmospheric deposition in mercury
and pollutants
-GTH project- watershed substratestructure of watershed influencing
lake ecology
-Bathymetry work
-Nutrient dynamics in rivers and
streams
-populations of fish and arthropods
-hydrology
-land-water interactions- linkage
bet. Terrestrial and aquatic
processes
-ecology of warm and hot springs
across N. Slope
-atmospheric processes and
hydrology linkages across N. Slope
-Vertebrate work on birds, small
mammals
-plant ecology, physiology,
microbial communities
-algae/soil work
-soil processes and how micro-
ISER-
disturbance affects ecology-remote sensing across landscapevariability
-geology-glacial
-mineral geology
ISER- UAA (Matt Burman)
- study of changes in employment
patterns in Nuiqsit post- Alpine
-changes in human demographic of
villages in North
-alcohol policy on suicide and
homicide rates
ARCUS- index of Arctic
Researchers
Naval Arctic Research Lab