From temperate rainforests to arctic tundra, a wealth of ecosystems span the vast and varied landscapes of Alaska. Among these are rare ecosystems, which support unique assemblages of specialized and/or diverse flora and fauna within a small...
Freshwater ecosystems of the Alaskan Arctic and Subarctic provide resources that are culturally, ecologically, and economically invaluable. Presently, these regions are relatively free of the impacts from invasive species compared to southern...
Alaska’s vast size, sparse human population, and access challenges often result in the state’s relatively thin data coverage compared to the other 49 US States for a number of key datasets including the USGS stream gauging network. Forty-one...
Phytoplankton blooms occur when environmental conditions are conducive to the exponential growth of phytoplankton (microscopic plants that float in the upper, sunlit layers of water). They are a common phenomenon in the ocean and are part of...
Collection of materials including phytoplankton and invertebrate guides, toxin information, fact sheets, best practices, etc.
Collection of materials including phytoplankton and invertabrate guides, toxin information, fact sheets, best practices, etc.
Stream temperature influences the growth, abundance, distribution, timing of life history events, and survival of Pacific salmon. Over the past 60 years, Alaska has warmed at more than twice the rate of the lower 48 states and warm water...
This project characterized stream temperature regimes in the Bristol Bay, Kodiak Island, Cook Inlet, Copper River, and Prince William Sound regions to better understand thermal habitats for spawning and juvenile salmon. We aggregated 1,691...
The Alaska Center for Conservation Science (ACCS) at the University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA), in partnership with the Northwest Boreal Landscape Conservation Cooperative (NWB LCC), embarked on a project to map and quantify the human footprint...