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
Projects:
Projects:
1. High res DEM/ High res. Ortho
1. Vegetation:
imagery
-develop manual of best
practices for tundra travel
2. Vegetation:
- overlapping ice roads
Rare plants & habitat
-crossing riparian areas
-impacts of rologon trails
3. Biodiversity
-long term studies of seismic
inventory/georeferenced/
exploration
quantitative
2. Phenology of migration,
4. Land cover mapping/ GIS on
reproduction
soils, habitat- Resolution-how are preproduction of
presently 30 m pixel exist on
animals and plants
NPRA
responding
5. Gather NPRA photo
data/sceens to achieve a
baseline
3. Amount of increased hunting
and fishing (legal & illegal)
due to road corridors and the
Research
Projects:
National Research Council GAP
Report
1. comprehensive/decision
planning
2. ecosystem
research/processes
- identify the links between
species
- Nutrient systems in support
of wildlife, vegetation etc.
- Landscape age
- Physiological levels of plant
& animal function/ health
- Permafrost regimes in
foothills (important for
seismic affects on the terrain,
ice content of soils, how to
6. Gaps in basic inventory data,
consolidate different studies
-Voucher/ specimine studies
in the foothills
affects on population levels
4. Improved snow monitoring
stations
7. Planning- id. Rare or valuable
habitat, Land cover mapping,
need specific map attached to
the use, asso. Species
distribution to remote
sensing, species of concern
basic ecology studies,
5. Sustainable management –
integrating the human
component, cost/benefit
analysis
8. Wildlife populations in the
foothills region –winter range
caribou populations
7. Economic impact of
development on north slope
communities
9. Seismic activity and their
impact on denning wildlife
species, need to provide
managers with locations to
avoid
8. Development affects on
subsistence cash based
economy
10. More small mammal studies
on coastal /riparian areas
11. Arctic Char/white fish and
near shore environmental
change
map them
Snow depth/hardness in
relation to winter travel
3. major sea spill cleanup
research (-zones of influence
(to what extent does the
industrial influence extend
beyond the footprint)
4. Industrial Long Term
Ecological Research (LTER),
baseline should be set for a
future site
5. social sciences-include communities in
decision making process
-collection of alternative
futures, TAIGA.NET (range of
the porcupine herd)
6. economic, sociological,
health etc.
7. Air contamination- sources,
affects, on public health,
presently no monitoring
8. Off road travel in the tundra,
seismic activity,
9. caribou & bowhead whales,
calving of caribou, off shore
seismic activity and bowhead
whales and subsistence
hunting
10. water withdrawals
-
6. Non-market valuation of
ecosystem services
9. Monitor reserve declines and
the impacts on communities
10. Economic impact of climate
change-infrastructure
-subsistence
-relocation/coastal areas
-opening of sea ice
-increased fire regime
11. Developing a non-market
valuation model to price cost
ecosystem services
- i.e. value dependency
on caribou
Programs:
12.
Programs:
11. Road dust cover/rehab. Of
gravel extraction areas
12. Zones of influencebehavioral studies, energetics
studies, disturbance, life
histories of species,
population variability, Habitat
fragmentation (ie. Molting
geese-affects of diff. levels of
activities) use landscape
levels for diff. species
13. NSF- long term ecological
research program exists
14. NEON & CEON15. Measure & detecting flows of
energy and nutrient flux to
determine change (causes
from development)
16. Measure of biomass on North
slope determine change and
structure of the vegetation
(expand LTER studies)
17. Literature search of social
studies, expand on the
qualitative research (ie.
Coville river road excluded
economic & social affects)
18. Predator/prey relationships
and how activity affects these
19. Compose an inventory of
white papers to use as a
baseline
20. Critical habitat of fish, life
histories
Programs: