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
Projects:
Projects:
Projects:
FWS- NS waterfowl surveys
(Migratory Bird Off)
DEC – databases on contaminated
sites, drinking water sources
DNR/ DOE – tundra modeling
project (2 test sites, coastal & upper
foothill – vehicle impact long-term
monitoring)
UAM/ NPS- small mammal surveys
in Nat’l park lands
NSB – social survey (census – incl.
info on ed, etc.)
LTER – trophic/ chemical surveys
on over 150 lakes
Alaska Ocean Observing System
(AOOS) - coastal oceanography
BLM – lake & stream inventories
monitored over time (peak flow
years identified)
DEC – databases on contaminated
sites, drinking water sources
BLM/ USGS – 5 gauges, 2 real-time,
USGS Coleville gauge, and 4 others
on NS (USGS)
DNR – inventory of every well, drill
rig, roads
Conoco Philips Michael Baker Jr.
Coleville & Bludowok (?) river
UAF – lake water withdrawals in NE
NPRA & KNP
FWS – 1002 baseline studies (final
report 1986)
2002 Arctic Research coastal plain –
impact of human activities, oil & gas
devel
DNR/ UAF/ ARS- eradication of
noxious weeds
USFWS Arctic Refuge
(see printed list)
breakup studies, lake monitoring at
Alpine for withdrawal
DEC – tundra treatment manual
(methods for cleaning up spills on
tundra)
Lazy Mountain Research, Jay
McKendrick contracted thru BP –
tundra recovery studies (oil spill) –
20 yrs
BLM – lake & stream inventories
(water chemistry, stream flow)
NPRA
Alaska Satellite facility RGPS –
motion of sea ice
Moulton consulting firm – fish
species in NE NPRA (lake
chemistry, volumes for water
withdrawal for Conoco- Philips)
NGA (former NIMA) – SAR maps of
all area north of 60 degrees
(1:25,000 scale)
EROS/ USGS – change detection in
Tesh lake area
DNR office of history & archeology
FWS - Botanist doing tundra
recovery following seismic
exploration in 1002 area, vegetation
in relation to seismic activity &
climate in 1002
DNR – winter ground hardness &
snow depth , trenching monitoring,
reserve pits, gravel pad monitoring,
inspections, materials sites (closure
plans)
DNR – vegetation monitoring at
Conoco-Philips test ice road
UAM database is online – most
mammal & plant specimens can be
searched
UAF monitoring McCall Glacier in
Brooks Range
NSF MANIS project – collaboration
ADF&G – (see list) variety of
ADF&G – caribou
Porcupine herd with Canadians &
FWS - survival rates, migratory
patterns
Central Arctic herd – calf growth
rates, survival in response to
disturbance
Western Arctic & Tesh herd –
seasonal range use, migratory
patterns
Yukon territory gov’t – grizzly bear
Habitat use study, population
assessment
Toolik field station (over 300
projects)
LTER – biogeochemistry, nutrient &
carbon cycling, linkages btwn terr &
aquatic systems, breeding bird
physiology and movement, ground
squirrels, contaminants (mercury),
modeling (lake physics, primary
production over large areas,
hydrology)
(list will be provided)
Gov’t of NW territories – social
impact mitigations for proposed gas
line
of 17 nat history museums to put
info online
LTR – stream surveys
Collaboration with Skip Walker UAF
comprehensive GIS of NS
Alaska Ocean Observing System
(AOOS) - coastal oceanography
monitoring – caribou, moose,
muskox, repro success, population
census
less frequent wolf, bear (3-5 yr data)
Dall’s sheep in northern foothills
Marine Mammals with NSB
subsistence harvest of whales &
seals
Fisheries
DEC Doug Dasher – radiation
monitoring
Arctic land managers consortium –
managers from Greenland and
across Arctic & NS
(Bruce Hanna)
LTER – (see website) climatological
data 8 weather stations, near Toolik
Stream gauging data in real time
Oks Creeks gauge, Anobiat (?)
creek UAF
DNR, NSB, ABR consulting, Moulton Fish populations overwintering
consulting, BLM - Fisheries
Vegetation & flowering at Toolik
migration routes & timing,
lake
overwintering areas
Lake & inlet chemistry
Long term monitoring of vehicle
traffic near Toolik (need lit search
for this info)
Changed in control vegetation over
25 years (published)
Brian Barnes UAF – ground
squirrels in Toolik lake area
NASA – shrinkage of polar ice pack
UAF resilience & adaptation
program - Cultural impact of the
DEW line
DNR – road building
CRREL – snow studies (Matthew
Sturn)
USGS – borehole temp changes for
permafrost monitoring
DNR – ground temp monitoring
ADF&G – statewide non-game
program
CALM active layer thickness
monitoring near Toolik & across
Arctic (Jerry Brown, Fritz Nelson)
SEARCH program
Unaami data collection – climate
change signals