NSSI Information Exchange Workshop
Breakout Session Worksheet 4
What additional inventory, monitoring and research projects and programs are needed on the North Slope?
1. List
2. Note the temporal and spatial scales.
3. Prioritize
Inventory
Monitoring
Research
Climate (8)
-regional, local information such as
wind patterns to assess emissions
distributions
Climate (8)
-monitoring stations
-geographic distribution meets
needs of nat. resource mgrs.
Climate (6)
-link implications of climate to habitats
and wildlife populations
-consistent, comparable data-focus
on goals of monitoring- most
monitoring is loosely put togetherhard to compare year to year,
within years
-broader scale- put in context- climatic
oscillations and global
warming/change
-implications of climate change to
habitats- resiliency/sensitivity
-changes in hydrologic regimes
-implications of climate change to
subsistence resources and human
populations
-implications of climate changes on
systematic responses to disturbance
regimes
-use implications and outcomes of
above to develop predictive models
-scale of predictive modeling has to be
useful for day-to-day management
Hydrology (7)
Hydrology (6)
Hydrology (7)
-freshwater lakes and streams
-network of gauging stations
-groundwater/surface water
relationships
-lack of consistent database part. with
rivers (too few stations), lack
appropriate detail
-groundwater modeling
-changes in water quality on temporal
scale
-surface water monitoring strategy
to assess baseline water quality –
both fresh and marine waters
-more intensive monitoring on
stream/watershed basis
-baseline characterization of N. Slope
regional water quality using EPA’s
assessment monitoring program
-Assess types of activities and tailor
charac. Phys/bio/chem. quality of water intensive monitoring (risk-based
(on temporal basis to assess trends) – approach)
both fresh and marine water
-est. relationships between fish
resources and changes in hydrologic
regimes (stream morphologies, volume
of water during diff. seasons, water
quality)
-implications of appropriating water
-predict how local and regional
infrastructures will affect surface and
subsurface hydrology (vegetation and
thermokarsting)
- how much water is available for
appropriation
Caribou (5)
-monitoring of caribou winter
survival for all 4 herds
Species (6)
-inventory/abundance/distribution
Thresholds of Change (6)
Identify what conservation and
development vision is for the North
Slope- balance bet. Natural and built
environments
Species (8)
-monitoring of spatial distribution for -communities’ threshold of change,
all key species
socioeconomic studies
Teshepuk Lake Caribou (3)
-habitat-lives in area w/ few or no
predators. Are they more affected by
displacement (habitat)?
-Hot Spots (3)
-define a hotspot, what makes it
Modeling (10)
Approaches to modeling development
activities, types of long-term
assessment
Fish (6)
-baseline life history/ecological data for
many species
-inventory wintering, spawning areas
Construction mitigation techniques for
occurring development activities
Fish- (3)
-determine times of year fish are using
systems to get to habitat critical to their
survival
-implication for reducing access to
area (once critical areas are detected)
Species- (7)
-predicting the impact of various
development scenarios on fish and
wildlife
-near shore research in identifying
interior (terrestrial) and near shore
habitat
Vegetation (6)
-baseline large-scale vegetation maps
Protocols (8)
protocols/standards need to be
addressed first
Vegetation (9)
-anthropogenic and natural
changes
Vegetation (2)
-successional patterns- change in
climate/environment
Protocols (11)
protocols/standards need to be
addressed first
-understanding of methods to do
research/inventory/monitoring
-sampling, limitations of data
Protocols (11)
protocols/standards need to be
addressed first
Geology (1)
-surficial geology inventory
-baseline geochemistry
-energy
Contaminants (1)
-inventory- levels and distribution in
biota/sediment/water/air
-source
Archeological Resources (1)
-inventory
Contaminants (0)
-source, impacts, persistence
Contaminants (1)
-trends