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EPSCOR SCTC Salmon 2050 Scenario 2: Industrial Boom
The sustainability of salmon within this ever-changing climate is a question posed by many whose lives focus on this natural resource and its future. South Central Alaska is no... -
Black Carbon Deposition onto the Juneau Icefield
The goal of this work was to characterize the spatial distribution of black carbon (BC) concentrations along various locations and elevations on the Juneau Icefield at two... -
Hydrologic Modeling in the Kenai River Watershed using Event Based Calibration
Understanding hydrologic changes is key for preparing for possible future scenarios. On the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska the yearly salmon runs provide a valuable stimulus to the... -
Field-Based and Airborne Hyperspectral Imaging for Applied Research in the St...
Hyperspectral imagery acquired using Hyspex VNIR-1800 and SWIR-384 camera systems have provided unique information on terrestrial and aquatic biogeochemical parameters, and... -
SCTC Salmon 2050 Scenario 1: Retirement Paradise
The sustainability of salmon within this ever-changing climate is a question posed by many whose lives focus on this natural resource and its future. South Central Alaska is no... -
Trophic pathways supporting Arctic Grayling in a small stream on the Arctic C...
Arctic Grayling (Thymallus arcticus) are widely distributed on the Arctic Coastal Plain (ACP) of Alaska, and are one of the few upper level consumers in streams, but the trophic... -
Permafrost in Our Time: Community-Based Permafrost Temperature Archive
The Permafrost/Active Layer Monitoring Program is an ongoing project that builds on work begun in 2005 to establish long-term permafrost and active layer monitoring sites... -
Pathways of Resilience in a Rapidly Changing Alaska
This session addresses topics concerning social-ecological resilience in Alaska and the Far North. As the Arctic is undergoing significant social-ecological change at a rapid... -
Temporal Variation in Diet Composition and Use of Pulsed Resource Subsidies b...
Pulsed resources create an influx of energy that can provide individual and population level benefits to their consumers. As consumers, Sablefish Anoplopoma fimbria experience... -
Measured Hydrologic Storage Characteristics of Three Major Ice Wedge Polygon ...
Model simulations have suggested that the hydrologic fluxes and stores of Arctic wetlands are constrained by the micro-topographical features of ice wedge polygons, which are... -
High-resolution modeling of freshwater discharge and glacier mass balance in ...
A comprehensive study of the Gulf of Alaska (GOA) hydrology has been carried out in order to improve understanding of the coastal freshwater discharge (FWD) magnitude and... -
New 3-D video methods reveal novel territorial drift-feeding behaviors that h...
Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) are critical to subsistence and commerce in the Yukon River basin, but several recent years of low abundance have forced devastating... -
The integrated hydrologic and societal impacts of a warming climate in Interi...
In this dissertation, interdisciplinary research methods were used to examine how changes in hydrology associated with climate affect Alaskans. Partnerships were established... -
Interacting disturbances and their effect on carbon, charcoal, and further im...
Disturbances have a strong role in the carbon balance of many ecosystems, and the cycle of vegetation growth, disturbance, and recovery is very important in determining the net... -
Geometry of the behavioral spaces: A computational approach to analysis and u...
Systems with non-linear dynamics frequently exhibit emergent system behavior, which is important to find and specify rigorously to understand the nature of the modeled... -
Quantifying Rural Hunter Access in Alaska
Despite hunter access influencing harvest success, few studies have quantified characteristics of hunter access. Based on spatially explicit interview data, we used geographic... -
Synergistic degradation of lignocellulose by fungi and bacteria in boreal for...
Boreal forests contain an estimated 28% of the world's soil carbon, and currently act as a significant global carbon sink. Plant-derived lignocellulose is a major component of... -
Glacier Mass Loss in Alaska from Airborne Lidar Altimetry
Changes in the flow dynamics of marine terminating glaciers remain the largest unresolved uncertainty in projections of sea level rise. While Alaska glaciers are losing about... -
Caribou migration, subsistence hunting, and user group conflicts in northwest...
Alaska Natives of northwest Alaska are highly dependent on barren-ground caribou (Rangifer tarandus) for meeting their nutritional and cultural needs. The Alaska Native village... -
Watershed-scale forest biomass distribution in a perhumid temperate rainfores...
Temperate rainforests are the most carbon dense forest ecosystem on the planet, with C stocks several times higher than most other forested biomes. While climatic and...
