Datasets
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2015 Kenai Waterhsed Water Quality Data
Water quality data was collected at Russian River, Ptarmigan Creek, and Beaver Creek on the Kenai Peninsula from May to November of 2015. Kenai Watershed Forum (KWF) staff... -
A science of integration: frameworks, processes, and products in a place-base...
Abstract Integrative research is increasingly a priority within the scientific community and is a central goal for the evolving field of sustainability science. While it is... -
Land cover map of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (Walker et al. 1982)
The Landsat-assisted environmental mapping of the northern coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska was funded by the US Fish and Wildlife Service and the US... -
Identifying Key Habitats for Juvenile Salmon in the Fox River Flats Estuary
Project Abstract This project offers the first scientific research of fish communities in the Fox River Flats Critical Habitat Area, located in Kachemak Bay, southern Cook... -
2010 Census – Block Groups
An ESRI Shapefile for use in GIS software that contains data from the 2010 US Census for Alaska at the census block group level. Each geographic unit is identified using Federal... -
2010 Census – Kenai Urban Cluster
A map in PDF format of the Kenai Urban Cluster, as of the 2010 census. Data available from the Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development, Research and Analysis Section. -
2013 Aerial Orthoimagery - Crea Creek Watershed Area
This RGB and CIR imagery comes from a high resolution LiDAR dataset of the Crea Creek Watershed Area, and is part of a series of 2013 LiDAR and imagery collections by EPSCoR... -
Airborne Thermal Infrared Remote Sensing, Anchor River Basin, Alaska
With support from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to continue this important work, Cook Inletkeeper contracted with Watershed Sciences, Inc. to map cold water habitat and... -
Arctic Adaptation Exchange portal
Portal for discovering circumpolar adaptation and resiliency research via a map interface. Project and initiative of the Arctic Council's Sustainable Development Working Group. -
Model Arctic Council
The project brought 65 college students from around the world to the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus as part of Arctic Science Summit Week. The students spent the week... -
AVA-AK: Willow Vegetation Plots (Schickhoff 2002)
Arctic Vegetation Archive - Alaska: Willow Vegetation Plots. The riparian vegetation in arctic Alaska mainly consists of willow shrub communities that are functionally... -
AVA-AK: International Tundra Experiment Vegetation Plots (Elmendorf 2012b)
Arctic Vegetation Archive - Alaska: International Turdra Experiment Vegetation Plots. The International Tundra Experiment (ITEX) is an international scientific collaboration to... -
Barrow
D. A. Walker IBP site and topogrid with 7 themes. These are currently in a paper/mylar version and need to be digitized. Once complete, they will be available for download... -
AVA-AK: Arctic Network (Jorgenson et al. 2009)
Arctic Vegetation Archive - Alaska: Arctic Network. Vegetation sampling for an ecological land survey classification and landcover map was completed for the over 19.5 million... -
AVA-AK: Arrigetch Peaks (Cooper 1983)
Arctic Vegetation Archive - Alaska: Arrigetch Peaks. The vegetation of Arrigetch Peaks was described and mapped by David J. Cooper for his PhD thesis funded by National Park... -
AVA-AK: Barrow Vegetation Plots (Webber 1978; Villerreal et al. 2012)
Arctic Vegetation Archive-Alaska: Barrow. The Barrow vegetation plots were originally described and mapped by Dr. Patrick J. Webber in 1972 as part of the International... -
AVA-AK: Prudhoe Bay Vegetation Plots (Walker 1985)
Arctic Vegetation Archive - Alaska: Prudhoe Bay Vegetation Plots. The vegetation of the Prudhoe Bay area was described and mapped by D. A. Walker for doctoral thesis at the... -
AVA-AK: Toolik Lake Vegetation Plots (Walker and Barry 1991)
Arctic Vegetation Archive - Alaska: Toolik Lake Vegetation Plots. The vegetation of the Toolik Lake area was described and mapped by D. A. Walker et al. during the Department... -
AVA-AK: Barrow DOE NGEE-Arctic (Sloan et al. 2014)
Arctic Vegetation Archive - Alaska: Barrow DOE NGEE-Arctic. As part of a larger study to understand the structure and function of Arctic terrestrial ecosystems response to... -
AVA-AK: Prudhoe Bay-ArcSEES Road Study (Walker et al. 2015)
Arctic Vegetation Archive - Alaska: Prudhoe Bay-ArcSEES Road Study. Sampling of vegetation in the vicinity of Lake Colleen off the Spine Road at Prudhoe Bay was undertaken in... -
AVA-AK: Atqasuk Vegetation Plots (Komárková & Webber 1980; Villarreal 2013)
Arctic Vegetation Archive - Alaska: Atqasuk. The Atqasuk vegetation plots were originally described and mapped by Drs. Vera Komárková and Patrick J. Webber in 1975 as part of... -
Vegetation Mapping of the Arctic Refuge Coastal Plain (Jorgenson et al. 1996)
This landcover map of the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in northeastern Alaska was produced by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, and published in... -
AVA-AK: Nome (Hanson 1953)
Arctic Vegetation Archive - Alaska: Nome. Sampling of tundra vegetation in the vicinity of Nome on the Seward Peninsula was undertaken as part of a classification of the major... -
AVA-AK: Oumalik Vegetation Plots (Ebersole 1985)
Arctic Vegetation Archive - Alaska: Oumalik Vegetation Plots. The vegetation in the vicinity of Oumalik Oil Well Number 1 was described and mapped by J. Ebersole for his... -
Nuiqsut All Resource Use Areas
Work conducted under contract to U.S. Dept. of Interior, BOEM (formerly MMS) by Stephen R. Braund and Associates with the North Slope Borough Dept. of Wildlife Management, local... -
2013 Aerial Orthoimagery - Nuiqsut
This RGB and CIR imagery comes from a high resolution LiDAR dataset of the Nuiqsut, and is part of a series of 2013 LiDAR and imagery collections by EPSCoR Northern Test Case. -
LiDAR Data: Nuiqsut
This high resolution LiDAR dataset of the village of Nuiqsut is part of a series of 2013 LiDAR and imagery collections by EPSCoR Northern Test Case. This LiDAR was collected at... -
LiDAR Data: Crea Creek Watershed Area
This high resolution LiDAR dataset of the Crea Creek Watershed Area is part of a series of 2013 LiDAR and imagery collections by EPSCoR Northern Test Case. This LiDAR data was... -
Southcentral Alaska Science Catalog
The Southcentral Alaska Science Catalog is a one-stop destination for scientific and geospatial data, reports, maps, documents, and projects. The ScASC works with federal, state... -
Kenai Peninsula Watershed Atlas
The Kenai Peninsula Watershed Atlas is an interactive online viewer that summarizes information by watershed on different land uses, natural and manmade disturbances, and... -
Kenai Peninsula Lidar
High quality LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) for the Kenai Peninsula was collected in the summer of 2008 through a collaboration of Federal, State and Local agencies and... -
2010 Census – Kenai Peninsula Borough Maps
This record includes boundary maps in PDF format for census areas and census tracts within the Kenai Peninsula Borough as of the 2010 census. Data available from the Alaska... -
Kenai River Baseline Water Quality Monitoring
The Kenai Watershed Forum, along with several partners, has monitored the water quality of the Kenai River watersheds twice a year (once in the spring and once in the summer)... -
2010 Census – Boroughs and Census Areas
An ESRI Shapefile for use in GIS software that contains data from the 2010 US Census for Alaska at the Borough level. The layer includes all Boroughs as well as Census Areas... -
2010 Census – Census Tracts
An ESRI Shapefile for use in GIS software that contains data from the 2010 US Census for Alaska at the census tract level. Each geographic unit is identified using Federal... -
2010 Census – Places (Cities and CDPs)
An ESRI Shapefile for use in GIS software that contains data from the 2010 US Census for Alaska at the place level. The definition of places includes all incorporated cities as... -
2010 Census – Blocks
An ESRI Shapefile for use in GIS software that contains data from the 2010 US Census for Alaska at the census block level. Each geographic unit is identified using Federal... -
2010 Census – Soldotna Urban Cluster
A map in PDF format of the Soldotna Urban Cluster, as of the 2010 census. Data available from the Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development, Research and Analysis... -
Wetlands Mapper – Kenai Peninsula
More than 350,000 acres of wetlands were mapped and classified within the Kenai Lowlands. A report of the wetland mapping project, including mapping processes and wetland... -
Alaska EPSCoR Southcentral Test Case - Aquatic Ecology - 2015 Field Data
The collection includes data collected in the May - September 2015 field season. Fieldwork efforts focused on acquiring growth and diet information from juvenile Chinook and... -
Alaska EPSCoR Southcentral Test Case - Aquatic Ecology - 2015 Temperature Data
The data set contains water and air temperature data from the 2015 field season. Sites include a lower, middle, and upper reach from each of the three focus tributaries in the... -
Community Data
I am currently constructing a data set of Kenai “places” (communities) which includes demographic characteristics from 1980-2014. Most of these data are available publicly but... -
Upper Russian Lake Core Analysis
Data package will include Upper Russian Lake LacCore analysis of all sediment cores taken during March 2014 and 2015 field seasons. Cores were split, imaged and sampled. Certain... -
Skilak Lake Age Model and Stable Isotope Data
Skilak Lake core was received in a collaborative effort between researchers with Alaska EPSCoR Southcentral Test Case and the University of Gent, Belgium. The core was obtained... -
Alaska EPSCoR Southcentral Test Case - Aquatic Ecology - 2015 Field Sites
In-progress; ArcGIS Online map of field sites from 2015 Aquatic Ecology research on impacts of climate change on juvenile Chinook and Coho salmon. Map is linked to numerical... -
Kenai and Russian River Recruits Per Spawner Analysis
Data includes escapement, sport fish harvest, and commercial harvest numbers and age data for Russian River and Kenai River salmon. Individual salmon were related back to their... -
Analysis: Environmental correlates of Chinook and Sockeye salmon productivity...
This analysis will test for potential effects of high discharge events during the spawning and egg incubation period on the productivity of Kenai River Chinook and sockeye... -
Environmental Sensitivity Index - Prince William Sound, Alaska
This data set is available from the Alaska Department of Natural Resources and comprises the Environmental Sensitivity Index (ESI) data for Prince William Sound, Alaska. ESI... -
Human Development in the Lower Kenai River Watershed, 1950-2013 - Interactive...
The expanding footprint of human development in the lower Kenai River watershed based on analysis of aerial photographs. Inset in top panel shows location within entire Kenai... -
Yellow-cedar ecology, conservation, and management
Focus is on the cause and consequences of yellow-cedar decline in Alaska and British Columbia. We are developing a conservation strategy based on climate vulnerabilities and...