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Filters Contacts (Less) Arctic Landscape Conservation Cooperative U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service LCC Network Data Steward National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Western Alaska Landscape Conservation Cooperative Migratory Bird Management Northwest Boreal Landscape Conservation Cooperative Alaska Science Center Arctic Field Office Fisheries and Ecological Services U.S. Geological Survey National Park Service Water and Environmental Research Center Fairbanks Field Office Jennifer Lynn Jenkins Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences Wendy Loya Alaska Climate Science Center Glen Liston, PhD Joshua Bradley Mark Lara Natural Resources Conservation Service Richard Lanctot University of Alberta Wildlife Conservation Society Alaska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit Aleutian Bering Sea Islands Landscape Conservation Cooperative Anna Liljedahl, PhD Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Bureau of Land Managment Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Christopher D. Arp, PhD David McGuire, PhD David Payer Dennis Walworth Environment Canada Geophysical Institute Institute of Arctic Biology InterWorks Consulting International Arctic Research Center Jessica Cherry, PhD Malcolm G. Butler, Ph.D NWRS Division of Realty and Natural Resources North Slope Science Initiative Scott Rupp, PhD Stan Smith Stephen Brown, PhD University of Alaska, Fairbanks ABR, Inc. Abby N. Powell, Ph.D. More... View Results as: JSON ATOM CSV

Linking North Slope Climate, Hydrology, and Fish Migration Contemporary observations suggest that water may disappear entirely from portions of some North Slope stream-beds during periods of drought or low flow. Climate models project even drier summers in the future. This could pose a problem for migrating fish that must be able to move back and forth from breeding and summer feeding areas to scarce overwintering sites. This work uses the best available long-term hydrologic data set for the North Slope (in the upper Kuparuk River watershed) to develop a model to assess the vulnerability of stream systems to periodic drought, and the vulnerability of migrating fish to a loss of stream connectivity. Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, DISCHARGE/FLOW, DISCHARGE/FLOW, Federal resource managers, LCC Network Science Catalog, All tags... Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, Publication, RAY-FINNED FISHES, RAY-FINNED FISHES, RIVERS/STREAMS, RIVERS/STREAMS, Training/Outreach/Workshop, Vulnerability Assessment, biota, biota, completed, inlandWaters, inlandWaters, Fewer tags Mapping Suitable Snow Habitat for Polar Bear Denning Along the Beaufort Coast of Alaska The purpose of this project is to provide better information to industry and regulatory agencies regarding the likely locations of polar bear dens. This project integrates snow physics, high-resolution digital elevation data, and bear biology to produce more refined and accurate maps predicting suitable polar bear den habitat than are currently available. The work consists of data gathering, consultation between snow and bear scientists, modeling, and sensitivity studies to understand the various factors influencing den location and evolution along the Beaufort Coast.The proposed work is intended to refine current methods of identifying polar bear denning sites by incorporating higher-resolution topographic data... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: DIGITAL ELEVATION/DIGITAL TERRAIN MODELS, DIGITAL ELEVATION/DIGITAL TERRAIN MODELS, Data Acquisition and Development, Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC Network Science Catalog, All tags... Policy makers & regulators, Project, Report, SNOW COVER, SNOW COVER, SNOW DEPTH, SNOW DEPTH, SNOW/ICE, SNOW/ICE, biota, biota, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, completed, Fewer tags Climate Change Vulnerability of Migrating Bird Species Breeding in Arctic Alaska The Wildlife Conservation Society will assess the climate change vulnerability of bird species that regularly breed in substantial populations in Alaska using the NatureServe Climate Change Vulnerability Index (CCVI) tool. Initial work will focus on breeding birds in Arctic Alaska including shorebirds, waterfowl and waterbird species (loons, gulls, terns, jaegers), and land bird species (passerines, raptors, ptarmigan). Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: BIRDS, BIRDS, CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT ASSESSMENT MODELS, CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT ASSESSMENT MODELS, Conservation NGOs, All tags... Conservation Planning, Federal resource managers, Interested public, LCC Network Science Catalog, Project, Report, Vulnerability Assessment, biota, biota, completed, environment, environment, Fewer tags Imiq - Hydroclimate Database and Data Portal The Imiq Hydroclimate Database houses hydrologic, climatologic, and soils data collected in Alaska and Western Canada from the early 1900s to the present. This database unifies and preserves numerous data collections that have, until now, been stored in field notebooks, on desktop computers, as well as in disparate databases. Synthesizing and analyzing the large-scale hydroclimate characteristics of this important climatic region have been made easier with this searchable database. The data, originally collected in a Microsoft SQL Server 2008 relational database, has been migrated to an open source PostgreSQL and PostGIS environment. The Imiq Data Portal provides public access to portions of the Imiq Hydroclimate... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: ABLATION, ABLATION, ACTIVE LAYER, ACTIVE LAYER, ALBEDO, All tags... ALBEDO, ATMOSPHERE, ATMOSPHERE, ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE, ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE, ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION, ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION, ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE, ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE, ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR, ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR, Academics & scientific researchers, Applications and Tools, CLIMATE INDICATORS, CLIMATE INDICATORS, CLOUD CEILING, CLOUD CEILING, CLOUDS, CLOUDS, DATA DELIVERY, DATA DELIVERY, DATA INTEROPERABILITY, DATA INTEROPERABILITY, DATA SEARCH AND RETRIEVAL, DATA SEARCH AND RETRIEVAL, DISCHARGE/FLOW, DISCHARGE/FLOW, Data Management and Integration, EVAPORATION, EVAPORATION, ICE DEPTH/THICKNESS, ICE DEPTH/THICKNESS, INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SERVICES, INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SERVICES, Interested public, LCC Network Science Catalog, PRECIPITATION, PRECIPITATION, Project, RUNOFF, RUNOFF, Report, SEASONALLY FROZEN GROUND, SEASONALLY FROZEN GROUND, SNOW, SNOW, SNOW DEPTH, SNOW DEPTH, SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT, SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT, SNOW/ICE TEMPERATURE, SNOW/ICE TEMPERATURE, SOIL MOISTURE/WATER CONTENT, SOIL MOISTURE/WATER CONTENT, SOIL TEMPERATURE, SOIL TEMPERATURE, SOILS, SOILS, SURFACE RADIATIVE PROPERTIES, SURFACE RADIATIVE PROPERTIES, SURFACE WATER, SURFACE WATER, SURFACE WATER CHEMISTRY, SURFACE WATER CHEMISTRY, SURFACE WINDS, SURFACE WINDS, VISIBILITY, VISIBILITY, VISUALIZATION/IMAGE PROCESSING, VISUALIZATION/IMAGE PROCESSING, WATER PRESSURE, WATER PRESSURE, WATER QUALITY/WATER CHEMISTRY, WATER QUALITY/WATER CHEMISTRY, WEB SERVICES, WEB SERVICES, WEB-BASED GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, WEB-BASED GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, WIND SPEED/WIND DIRECTION, WIND SPEED/WIND DIRECTION, biota, biota, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, elevation, elevation, geoscientificInformation, geoscientificInformation, inlandWaters, inlandWaters, onGoing, Fewer tags TEON: Terrestrial Environmental Observation Network The Terrestrial Environmental Observation Network (TEON) is intended to meet the need for a sustainable environmental observing network for northern Alaska. The TEON plan proposes collection of a time series of specific environmental variables in seven representative watersheds across northern Alaska. The Kuparuk River watershed is central to this plan both because of its location that bisects Alaska’s North Slope and its record of hydroclimatic data and research now surpassing 30-yrs. Nested catchments within and adjacent to this sentinel Arctic river system integrate climate and landscape responses from the Brooks Range foothills (Imnavait Creek and Upper Kuparuk River) to the Arctic Coastal Plain (Putuligayuk... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: AIR TEMPERATURE, AIR TEMPERATURE, ATMOSPHERE, ATMOSPHERE, Academics & scientific researchers, All tags... CRYOSPHERE, CRYOSPHERE, DISCHARGE/FLOW, DISCHARGE/FLOW, DRAINAGE, DRAINAGE, Data Acquisition and Development, Datasets/Database, Federal resource managers, GEOMORPHOLOGY, GEOMORPHOLOGY, GLACIERS/ICE SHEETS, GLACIERS/ICE SHEETS, LCC Network Science Catalog, MAXIMUM/MINIMUM TEMPERATURE, MAXIMUM/MINIMUM TEMPERATURE, Map, Monitoring, PERMAFROST, PERMAFROST, Policy makers & regulators, Project, SNOW COVER, SNOW COVER, SNOW DEPTH, SNOW DEPTH, SNOW/ICE, SNOW/ICE, SOIL TEMPERATURE, SOIL TEMPERATURE, SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURE, SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURE, SURFACE WATER, SURFACE WATER, Training/Outreach/Workshop, VEGETATION, VEGETATION, WATER QUALITY/WATER CHEMISTRY, WATER QUALITY/WATER CHEMISTRY, biota, biota, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, environment, environment, geoscientificInformation, geoscientificInformation, inlandWaters, inlandWaters, onGoing, Fewer tags Evaluating the 'Bottom Up' Effects of Changing Habitats: Climate Changes, Vegetative Phenology, and the Nutrient Dynamics of Ungulate Forages To elucidate these potential “bottom up” effects of climate changes to Arctic ungulates and evaluate the trophic mismatch hypothesis, the Arctic Landscape Conservation Cooperative (ALCC), the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Teck, Inc., and the National Park Service provided funding in 2012-14 to incorporate the calving and summer range of the Western Arctic caribou herd (WAH) into an ongoing inter-agency research and monitoring effort to examine the influences of climate change on the nutrient dynamics of caribou forages. This work is leveraging existing projects on the North Slope of Alaska that are primarily funded through the USGS Changing Arctic Ecosystems Initiative. Field... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, EVEN-TOED UNGULATES, EVEN-TOED UNGULATES, Federal resource managers, LCC Network Science Catalog, All tags... MAMMALS, MAMMALS, PLANTS, PLANTS, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, State agencies, Vulnerability Assessment, biota, biota, environment, environment, onGoing, Fewer tags Shorebirds and Invertebrate Distribution on Delta Mudflats along the Beaufort Sea More information is needed about species composition, abundance, or distribution of the microfauna and meiofauna living within the interstitial spaces of the littoral zones along the Beaufort Sea coast. Shorebirds depend on meiofauna for food for pre-migratory fattening and these organisms make important contributions to bioremediation of oil spills.The information obtained from this jointly-funded research can contribute to development of mitigation measures and strategies to reduce potential impacts from post-lease exploration and development. This information need extends to the lower trophic levels forming the base of these complex food webs and the biochemistry that influences these relationships. Their contributions... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES, ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES, BIRDS, BIRDS, Conservation NGOs, All tags... DELTAS, DELTAS, Data Acquisition and Development, Federal resource managers, INTERTIDAL ZONE, INTERTIDAL ZONE, LCC Network Science Catalog, Project, biota, biota, completed, environment, environment, Fewer tags Modeling avifaunal responses to climate change in North America's boreal-Arctic transition zone Using a bioclimatic envelope approach, University of Alberta investigators project how the distribution and abundance of boreal forest birds across North America will respond to different scenarios of future climate-change. Investigation emphasis is on mapping and quantifying potential range expansions of boreal bird species into Arctic and subarctic regions across Alaska and Canada. The final products demonstrate a broad continental-scale overview of potential shifts in avian distribution. Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, BIRDS, BIRDS, CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT ASSESSMENT MODELS, CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT ASSESSMENT MODELS, All tags... Conservation NGOs, Federal resource managers, LCC Network Science Catalog, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, RANGE CHANGES, RANGE CHANGES, Report, Vulnerability Assessment, biota, biota, completed, environment, environment, Fewer tags Interdisciplinary Study of How Climate Change May Affect Wetland Habitats, Invertebrates and Shorebirds Arctic wetlands, where millions of local and migratory birds nest, are composed of a mosaic of ice wedge polygons, non-patterned tundra, and large vegetated drained thaw lake basins. Regional climate projections suggest that evapotranspiration, rainfall, and snowfall will increase, making it difficult to predict how surface water distribution might change and how habitats for the invertebrate resources used by waterbirds will be impacted. This study will focus on evaluating how climate change will affect the invertebrate community, and whether the change in climate (through changes in hydrology and surface energy balance) could induce a trophic mismatch that might alter the growth and survival of shorebird young.... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, BIRDS, BIRDS, Conservation Design, Conservation NGOs, All tags... Federal resource managers, INSECTS, INSECTS, LCC Network Science Catalog, Project, Report, TEMPERATURE INDICATORS, TEMPERATURE INDICATORS, TEMPERATURE TRENDS, TEMPERATURE TRENDS, WETLANDS, WETLANDS, biota, biota, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, inlandWaters, inlandWaters, onGoing, Fewer tags FishCAFE: Response of an Arctic Freshwater Ecosystem to Climate and Land-use Change This project provides a better understanding how linkages among surface-water availability, connectivity, and temperature mediate habitat and trophic dynamics of the Fish Creek Watershed (FCW). These interrelated processes form a shifting mosaic of freshwater habitats across the landscape that can be classified, mapped, understood, and modeled in response to past and future climate and land-use change in a spatial and temporal context. Developing scenarios of freshwater habitat change in this context provides managers and scientists with a flexible template to evaluate a range of potential responses to climate and land-use change. Applying this approach in the FCW is made feasible because of the availability of... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Datasets/Database, ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONS, ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONS, Federal resource managers, All tags... LAKE ICE, LAKE ICE, LAKES, LAKES, LCC Network Science Catalog, PERMAFROST, PERMAFROST, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, Publication, RIVER ICE, RIVER ICE, Training/Outreach/Workshop, Vulnerability Assessment, WETLANDS, WETLANDS, biota, biota, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, environment, environment, geoscientificInformation, geoscientificInformation, inlandWaters, inlandWaters, onGoing, Fewer tags Integrated Ecosystem Model (AIEM) for Alaska and Northwest Canada The Integrated Ecosystem Model for Alaska project (IEM) uses down-scaled climate models as the drivers of ecosystem change to produce forecasts of future fire, vegetation, permafrost and hydrology regimes at a resolution of 1km. This effort is the first to model ecosystem change on a statewide scale, using climate change input as a major driving variable. The objectives of the IEM project are as follows; to better understand and predict effects of climate change and other stressors on landscape level physical and ecosystem processes, and to provide support for resource conservation planning.The IEM will provide resource managers with a decision support tool to visualize future landscapes in Alaska. Model outputs... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, DYNAMIC VEGETATION/ECOSYSTEM MODELS, DYNAMIC VEGETATION/ECOSYSTEM MODELS, Datasets/Database, Federal resource managers, All tags... Interested public, LAND COVER, LAND COVER, LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY, LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY, LANDSCAPE PROCESSES, LANDSCAPE PROCESSES, LCC Network Science Catalog, PERMAFROST, PERMAFROST, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, Report, SOIL TEMPERATURE, SOIL TEMPERATURE, Training/Outreach/Workshop, Vulnerability Assessment, WETLANDS, WETLANDS, biota, biota, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, environment, environment, geoscientificInformation, geoscientificInformation, inlandWaters, inlandWaters, onGoing, Fewer tags Operational Polar Bear Den Mapping Historically, available polar bear den habitat models have been based primarily on the presence of topographic features capable of capturing drifting snow. In any given season, however, the availability and precise location of snowdrifts of sufficient size to accommodate a bear den depends on the antecedent snowfall and wind conditions, and these vary from one year to the next. Thus, suitable topography is a necessary pre-condition, but is not sufficient to accurately predict potential den sites in a given year. To satisfy the requirements of agency and industry managers what is needed is a user-friendly decision-support tool that takes into account the current fall and early-winter meteorological conditions, and... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, BEARS, BEARS, Decision Support, Federal resource managers, All tags... Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC Network Science Catalog, Project, Publication, SNOW COVER, SNOW COVER, SNOW DEPTH, SNOW DEPTH, State agencies, User Manual, biota, biota, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, completed, Fewer tags Changing Seasonality of Invertebrate Food Resources across the Arctic Coastal Plain We assessed change in the seasonal timing of insect emergence from tundra ponds near Barrow, Alaska over a four-decade timespan, and explored factors that regulate this significant ecological phenomenon. The early-summer pulse of adult insects emerging from myriad tundra ponds on the Arctic Coastal Plain is an annual event historically coincident with resource demand by tundra-nesting avian consumers. Asymmetrical changes in the seasonal timing of prey availability and consumer needs may impact arctic-breeding shorebirds, eiders, and passerines. We have found evidence of change in the thermal behavior of these arctic wetlands, along with a shift in the phenology of emerging pond insects. Relative to the 1970s, tundra... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES, ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES, ARTHROPODS, ARTHROPODS, Academics & scientific researchers, All tags... Federal resource managers, INSECTS, INSECTS, LAKES, LAKES, LCC Network Science Catalog, MODELS, MODELS, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, Report, Vulnerability Assessment, WATER TEMPERATURE, WATER TEMPERATURE, biota, biota, completed, inlandWaters, inlandWaters, Fewer tags Expanding the North Slope Fish Distribution and Water Quality Geodatabase The distribution and abundance of fishes across the Alaska Arctic is not well understood. Better information on fish distribution is needed for habitat assessment and modeling activities and is also important for planning industrial activities. The State of Alaska maintains a fish distribution database for anadromous fish species, however there is currently no analog for resident fish species. The concept behind AquaBase was to fill the information gap for resident fish by design a database that contains information about all fish species. AquaBase does not duplicate information that is already available in other spatial database, but rather ‘rescues’ data from reports that are not readily available. Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Data Acquisition and Development, Data Management and Integration, Datasets/Database, Federal resource managers, Informing Conservation Delivery, All tags... LAKES, LAKES, LCC Network Science Catalog, Project, RAY-FINNED FISHES, RAY-FINNED FISHES, RIVERS/STREAMS, RIVERS/STREAMS, State agencies, biota, biota, completed, Fewer tags Yukon Slope Wildlife Management Plan Natural resource managers and native communities have expressed a need for effectively synthesizing traditional knowledge and western science data. Often wildlife management plans are based on remotely sensed data and data collected by wildlife biologists. These data may not reflect the variables that are important to the local users, including the scale of information, names describing places or habitats, or how seasonality affects the wildlife available for harvest. The Inuvialuit of the Yukon North Slope have formed a Wildlife Advisory Council, a co-management body, comprised of federal, territorial, and Inuvialuit representatives, and they are working closely with researchers from the Round River Organization... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Data Acquisition and Development, Hunters & anglers, KNOWLEDGE/DECISION SYSTEMS, KNOWLEDGE/DECISION SYSTEMS, LCC Network Science Catalog, All tags... MAMMALS, MAMMALS, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, Regional & county planners, Report, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Tribes, biota, biota, onGoing, society, society, Fewer tags Estimating moose abundance at varying snow cover levels Lack of complete snow cover for the past 3 winters in southwestern Alaska has forced agencies to postpone moose surveys due to the likelihood of underestimating the population/lack of comparability to previous surveys. Poor snow conditions lower the sightability of moose, yet, for most regions of Alaska, the variation in moose sightability during suboptimal conditions has not yet been quantified. Because scientists are predicting less snowfall in this region over the long term, we initiated research to estimate sightability correction factors (SCF_c) using radiocollared animals to apply to abundance estimates obtained via the GeoSpatial Population Estimator (GSPE) method. The Project Goal is to develop a model that... Categories: Data, Project; Tags: 2016, Academics & scientific researchers, Academics & scientific researchers, CALIBRATION/VALIDATION, CALIBRATION/VALIDATION, All tags... DEER/MOOSE, DEER/MOOSE, Data Acquisition and Development, Data Acquisition and Development, Datasets/Database, Decision Support, Decision Support, Federal resource managers, Federal resource managers, Hunters & anglers, Informing Conservation Delivery, Informing Conservation Delivery, Interested public, Interested public, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Large mammals, Methodology/Protocol, Monitoring, Monitoring, Policy makers & regulators, Policy makers & regulators, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Presentation, Project, Publication, Regional & county planners, Regional & county planners, Report, Report, SNOW COVER, SNOW COVER, STATISTICAL APPLICATIONS, STATISTICAL APPLICATIONS, State agencies, State agencies, Tribes, Tribes, Western Alaska Landscape Conservation Cooperative, biota, biota, onGoing, Fewer tags Threatened Eider Geodatabase for Northern Alaska The Arctic LCC created the Threatened Eider Geodatabase to serve as a repository for threatened eider distribution information. This database is intended to be a qualitative “first look” at where these two species of eider have been recorded and where surveys have been conducted. This dataset is intended for general planning and mapping purposes, it should NOT be used for deriving density estimates. Users are reminded that these data do not represent all locations within the geographic scope of this database that may be occupied by threatened eiders.. Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: BIRDS, BIRDS, Data Acquisition and Development, Data Management and Integration, Datasets/Database, All tags... Federal resource managers, GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC Network Science Catalog, Project, State agencies, biota, biota, completed, Fewer tags Metadata Toolkit The Alaska Data Integration Working Group (ADIwg) Metadata Toolkit is an open source, suite of web applications for authoring and editing metadata for both spatial and non-spatial projects and datasets. The main goal of the toolkit is to promote the creation and use of metadata by lowering the level of technical expertise required to produce archival quality metadata.mdJSON is the metadata format ties the suite of tools together. The mdEditor is an open source client-side web application design to allow users to manage metadata for projects and data products. The mdEditor may be used to create mdJSON and interface with the mdTranslator to output metadata in multiple standards, including ISO 19115-2, 19115-1, 19110,... Categories: Data, Project; Tags: AUTHORING TOOLS, AUTHORING TOOLS, Academics & scientific researchers, Conservation NGOs, Data Management and Integration, All tags... Federal resource managers, Interested public, LCC Network Science Catalog, METADATA HANDLING, METADATA HANDLING, METADATA TRANSFORMATION/CONVERSION, METADATA TRANSFORMATION/CONVERSION, Project, State agencies, Tribes, WEB SERVICES, WEB SERVICES, biota, biota, boundaries, boundaries, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, disaster, disaster, economy, economy, elevation, elevation, environment, environment, extraTerrestrial, extraTerrestrial, farming, farming, geoscientificInformation, geoscientificInformation, health, health, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, inlandWaters, inlandWaters, intelligenceMilitary, intelligenceMilitary, location, location, oceans, oceans, onGoing, planningCadastre, planningCadastre, society, society, structure, structure, transportation, transportation, utilitiesCommunication, utilitiesCommunication, Fewer tags Climate effects on Arctic Food Resources: Modeling the Timing and Duration of Aquatic Insect Emergence from Tundra Ponds The primary goal of this project was to predict climate-related changes in the timing and duration of insect prey availability for arctic-breeding shorebirds. Researchers coordinated closely with the Arctic Shorebird Demographics Network, whose collaborators sampled aquatic insect emergence, terrestrial insect activity, and associated environmental data at sites across arctic Alaska and Canada. Using ASDN data, they developed mathematical models that relate the timing and duration of insect emergence and activity to accumulated temperature, weather, and other environmental variables. They used these models to predict future changes in the timing of arctic insect availability based on climate change projections.... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES, ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES, Academics & scientific researchers, Datasets/Database, LCC Network Science Catalog, All tags... Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, Report, Vulnerability Assessment, WATER TEMPERATURE, WATER TEMPERATURE, biota, biota, environment, environment, onGoing, Fewer tags Modeling Shorebird Distribution on the North Slope Shorebirds are among the most abundant and visible high-latitude vertebrates. Their ecology makes them particularly sensitive to climate change in the arctic. The current distribution of shorebirds on the Arctic Coastal Plain is poorly known because accurate data exist from just a few locations. The Arctic LCC has supported development of habitat selection models that combine bird survey data with remotely-sensed habitat maps to “fill in the gaps” where observations are sparse. In future phases, the distribution maps generated from these models could be ground-truthed and improved, and subsequently used as the basis from which to forecast future shorebird distribution for projected future climate scenarios. Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, BIRDS, BIRDS, Conservation NGOs, Conservation Planning, All tags... Datasets/Database, Federal resource managers, GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, LCC Network Science Catalog, MODELS, MODELS, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, Publication, Report, Training/Outreach/Workshop, biota, biota, completed, environment, environment, Fewer tags 1 2 »