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North Pacific Pelagic Seabird Database (NPPSD)

The North Pacific Pelagic Seabird Database (NPPSD) is maintained by the USGS Alaska Science Center and includes survey transect data designed and conducted by numerous partners primarily to census seabirds at sea. The data provided here relate to observations of marine birds and mammals observed during at-sea surveys throughout the North Pacific including the Arctic Ocean, Beaufort Sea, Chukchi Sea, Bering Sea, Sea of Okhotsk, and Barents Sea. This data release contains 5 tables including observation data, survey locations, taxonomic designations of observed birds and mammals, summary information about each dataset added to the database, and a table showing changes made to the database from version 4.0 to 4.1.

Tags: alaska, albatross-and-allies, aquatic-birds, arctic-ocean, barents-sea, beaufort-sea, bering-sea, biota, birds, canada, chukchi-sea, ducks-geese-swans, eagles-falcons-hawks-and-allies, environment, grebes, loons, marine-biology, marine-bird, marine-ecosystems, marine-mammals, north-pacific, pelicans-and-allies, population-dynamics, sandpipers, sea-ducks, sea-of-japan, sea-of-okhotsk, seabird, usgs-asc29, waders-gulls-auks-and-allies
Organization: Department of the Interior
U.S. Geological Survey Polar Bear Mark-Recapture Records, Alaska Portion of the Southern Beaufort Sea, 2001-2010

The dataset consists of one file of tabular data. These data include: a unique bear identification, bear sex, birth year, capture year, capture location (latitude and longitude), indicator of satellite radio status, and search effort.

Tags: alaska, animals-vertebrates, bears, beaufort-sea, biota, carnivores, coastal-ecosystems, environment, mammals, marine-ecosystems, marine-mammals, mark-recapture, polar-bears, species-life-history, survival, threatened-species, ursus-maritimus, usgs-asc27, wildlife
Organization: Department of the Interior
Aerial Images of Alaska's Arctic Coastal Plain, 1948-1949

This dataset is comprised of 35 geo-referenced aerial images of four study areas (Teshekpuk Lake Special Area, Chipp River, Colville River Delta, and Dalton Highway Corridor) on Alaska's Arctic Coastal Plain. The images are from aerial photo surveys flown in 1948-1949 and obtained from the Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center using the USGS EarthExplorer website. The images represent a historical snapshot of the landscape from that time.

Tags: aerial-photography, alaska, chipp-river, coastal-ecosystems, coastal-retreat, ecosystem-monitoring, environment, erosion, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, imagerybasemapsearthcover, lake-drainage, land-use-land-cover, landscape-change, landscape-processes, marine-transgression, national-petroleum-reserve-alaska, north-slope-borough, npr-a, npra, permafrost-degradation, remote-sensing, smith-river, succession-biological, teshekpuk-lake, teshekpuk-lake-special-use-area, tundra-ecosystems, usgs-asc25, wetland-ecosystems
Organization: Department of the Interior
Tri-axial Accelerometer and Conductivity Sensor Data from Adult Female Polar Bears (Ursus maritimus) in the Southern Beaufort Sea, April-October 2014

This dataset contains archival logger data containing measures of tri-axial acceleration and conductivity for 5 adult female polar bears in the southern Beaufort Sea from April-October 2014.

Tags: accelerometer, alaska, animals-vertebrates, bears, beaufort-sea, biota, carnivores, energetics, environment, mammalian-physiology, mammals, marine-mammals, physical-activity, species-life-history, usgs-asc239, vertebrates, wildlife, wildlife-biology
Organization: Department of the Interior
Argos Satellite Tracking Data for Yellow-billed Loons (Gavia adamsii) - Processed Data

This metadata document describes the data contained in the "Argos Processed Data" (Child Item 1) of this data release. This data release contains all data collected by the Argos System from 92 satellite transmitters attached to adult Yellow-billed Loons on their breeding range in Arctic Alaska and Canada, 2002-2017. The raw data were processed to accomplish two goals: flag implausible location estimates and decode raw sensor data. Three Comma Separate Value (CSV) tables are included in the "Argos Processed Data" (Child Item 1) of this data release: 1) the "diag_filteredLocations" table contains one record for every location estimate collected, accompanied by a binary flag that denotes an algorithm's plausibility check. Each record also includes a 'Tracking_Status' variable that denotes whether the location was collected from a live animal, a dead animal, or shed transmitter, 2) the "decodedSensor" table contains decoded sensor data such as a transmitter's temperature, battery voltage, and motion (activity), and 3) the "deploymentAttributes" table contains one record for each transmitter deployment in a CSV formatted table. The deployment attributes file contains information such as when the transmitter was attached to the animal, when tracking of a live animal ended, and a variety of variables describing the animal and transmitter. This table is identical to the "deploymentAttributes" table in the "Argos Raw Data" (Child Item 2) of this data release.

Tags: alaska, animal-tracking, animals-vertebrates, argos, atqasuk, biota, birds, breeding-area, breeding-sites, cambridge-bay, canada, chipp-river, distribution, east-asia-flyway, ecological-dynamics, environment, gavia-adamsii, ikpikpuk, inigok, loons, migration, migration-organisms, migration-pathway, migratory-birds, migratory-strategies, national-petroleum-reserve-alaska, north-slope, northwest-territories, npr-a, nunavut, ornithology, overwintering, pacific-americas-flyway, platform-transmitter-terminal, ptt, satellite-transmitter, seasonal-distribution, seasonal-movement, seward-peninsula, species-life-history, species-migration, telemetry, tracking-equipment, usgs-asc238, wildlife, wintering-area, yellow-billed-loon
Organization: Department of the Interior
Argos Satellite Tracking Data for Yellow-billed Loons (Gavia adamsii) - Raw Data

This metadata document describes the data contained in the "Argos Raw Data" (Child Item 2) of this data release. This data release contains all data collected by the Argos System from 92 satellite transmitters attached to adult Yellow-billed Loons on their breeding range in Arctic Alaska and Canada, 2002-2017. Five data files are included in the "Argos Raw Data" (Child Item 2) of this data release. Two data files (with identical content) contain the raw Argos DIAG (Diagnostic) data, one in the legacy verbose ASCII format and one in a tabular Comma Separate Value (CSV) format. Two other data files (with identical content) contain the raw Argos DS (Dispose) data, one in the legacy verbose ASCII format and one in a tabular CSV format. The fifth file, "deploymentAttributes", contains one record for each transmitter deployment in a CSV formatted table. The deployment attributes file contains information such as when the transmitter was attached to the animal, when tracking of a live animal ended, and a variety of variables describing the animal and transmitter. This table is identical to the "deploymentAttributes" table in the "Argos Processed Data" (Child Item 1) of this data release.

Tags: alaska, animal-tracking, animals-vertebrates, argos, atqasuk, biota, birds, breeding-area, breeding-sites, cambridge-bay, canada, chipp-river, distribution, east-asia-flyway, ecological-dynamics, environment, gavia-adamsii, ikpikpuk, inigok, loons, migration, migration-organisms, migration-pathway, migratory-birds, migratory-strategies, national-petroleum-reserve-alaska, north-slope, northwest-territories, npr-a, nunavut, ornithology, overwintering, pacific-americas-flyway, platform-transmitter-terminal, ptt, satellite-transmitter, seasonal-distribution, seasonal-movement, seward-peninsula, species-life-history, species-migration, telemetry, tracking-equipment, usgs-asc237, wildlife, wintering-area, yellow-billed-loon
Organization: Department of the Interior
Spectacled Eider (Somateria fischeri) Microsatellite and Mitochondrial DNA Data, 2014-2018, Alaska and Russia

This data set describes nuclear microsatellite genotypes derived from ten autosomal loci (Aph8, Aph16, Cmo7, Cmo9, Hhi5, Sfi10, Smo4, Smo6, Smo8, Smo12) and nucleotide sequence data derived from one mitochondrial DNA locus (control region). A total of 262 Spectacled Eiders were examined for this study. Samples were collected at Indigirka and Chaun River Deltas, Russia, and Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, Utqiagvik, Colville River Delta, Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. Samples used in the study originated from blood or feather samples collected in the field from live trapped birds or from tissue taken from dead birds.

Tags: alaska, alleles, animals-vertebrates, biota, birds, chaun, chaun-river-delta, colville-river-delta, dna, dna-mitochondrial, dna-sequencing, environment, evolution, genetic-diversity, genetic-markers, genetic-variance, genetics, genetics-population, indigirka, indigirka-river-delta, microsatellite-repeats, polymerase-chain-reaction, population-genetic, prudhoe-bay, russia, somateria-fischeri, spectacled-eider, systematics-and-taxonomy, usgs-asc236, utqiagvik, waterfowl, yukon-kuskokwim-delta
Organization: Department of the Interior
Glacier-Wide Mass Balance and Compiled Data Inputs: Juneau Icefield Glaciers

This data release includes glacier wide mass balance solutions for Taku and Lemon Creek Glaciers, as well as the refined inputs used in these calculations. Input data are of three types: 1) time-variable area altitude distribution (AAD); 2) time series of point water balance at long term sites (with secondary sites given in recent years); 3) weather data from nearby stations, either installed along the glacier margins or taken from a nearby site if continuous glacier-adjacent data is unavailable. The USGS runs a coded analysis to transform the three input data types to the output glacier-wide data. Output data represent surface mass balance estimates. The output solution is a geodetically calibrated, conventional glacier-wide mass balance, which represents our preferred solution. Conventional glacier-wide mass balance from direct observations without calibration can be easily derived by using the geodetic calibration coefficients provided, if desired. We do not explicitly account for basal or englacial accumulation or ablation. Mass balances are reported in water equivalent (w.e.) units, and often represent integration of multiple field measurements. Whenever possible, we average multiple field measurements to account for surface roughness and measurement errors. Additional data for Lemon Creek Glacier, part of the Juneau Icefield, is available in a separate data release of USGS Benchmark Glacier mass balance data at https://doi.org/10.5066/F7HD7SRF  It is not included here to avoid duplication.
      Preliminary mass balance estimates for the current calendar year are provided, but do not include direct measurements of ablation after the date of the fall visit. Preliminary estimates of mass balance model this winter ablation for the current year. During subsequent field visits in the following calendar year, any ablation that occurred over the winter season is measured and used to revise the previously modeled estimate of mass balance.

Tags: ablation-zones-accumulation-zones, alaska, cryosphere, geoscientificinformation, glaciation, glacier-elevation-ice-sheet-elevation, glacier-mass-balance-ice-sheet-mass-balance, glaciers, glaciers-ice-sheets, glaciology, juneau-icefield, lemon-creek-glacier, snow-and-ice-cover, taku-glacier, usgs-asc234
Organization: Department of the Interior
Physical, Chemical, and Invertebrate Data from Chipp North Pond Manipulations, North Slope, Alaska, 2013

These data are in five tables related to a series of ponds, visited weekly over the summer of 2013, in the Chipp River Basin on the Arctic Coastal Plain of northern Alaska. The tables provide: 1) location and description of each of the ponds, 2) physical information on pond characteristics (area, volume, temperature), water chemistry (electrical conductivity, dissolved oxygen, pH, ammonium, and total dissolved phosphorus and nitrogen, chlorophyll-a, and ash free dry mass), 3) select invertebrate counts, 4) invertebrate taxonomy, and 5) invertebrate community counts. Four pond types were studied, including large and small thermokarst troughs, low-centered polygon ponds, and larger coalescent ponds. The ponds included a control group, and three manipulated groups, one heated passively, a second was fertilized, and a third with netting to deter birds from landing on/near the pond.

Tags: alaska, animals-invertebrates, aquatic-ecosystems, arachnida, biogeochemical-cycling, biota, branchiopoda, chipp-river, clitellata, collembola, copepoda, ecological-processes, freshwater-ecosystems, gastropoda, hydrology, hydrozoa, inlandwaters, insecta, lakes, macroinvertebrates, north-slope, nutrient-cycling, nutrients, organic-matter, ostracoda, phosphorus-compounds, polychaeta, surface-water-chemistry, terrestrial-hydrosphere, tundra-ecosystems, turbellaria, usgs-asc233, water-quality-water-chemistry, water-temperature, zooplankton
Organization: Department of the Interior
Water Level, Temperature, and Discharge of Headwater Streams in the Noatak and Kobuk River Basins, Northwest Alaska, 2015-2017

This dataset includes 15-minute interval data on stream temperature, stage, and discharge from low-order streams in the Noatak and Kobuk River valleys in Northwestern Alaska, collected during the summer months. Several sites in the Agashashok River basin were monitored in 2015 and 2016, and additional sites were added in 2017. The depth of the water and temperature were determined using a combined pressure transducer and temperature sensor that was deployed through the summer months. Different sensors were used in each stream and year, so a file is included detailing the stage and temperature accuracy for each year and stream. In rare instances in the fall, stage was estimated for certain streams (e.g. NFT3) based on remote camera images of the staff plate. Discharge was derived from the stage data by creating a rating curve relating stage to discharge measured during site visits.

Tags: agashashok-river, alaska, cutler-river, freshwater-ecosystems, geoscientificinformation, hydrology, inlandwaters, kobuk-river, noatak-river, permafrost, pish-river, stream-discharge, usgs-asc232, water-temperature
Organization: Department of the Interior
Argos Satellite Tracking Data for Blue-winged Teal (Anas discors) - Raw Data

This metadata document describes the data contained in the "Argos Raw Data" (Child Item 2) of this data release. This data release contains all data collected by the Argos System from 42 satellite transmitters attached to Blue-winged Teal ducks on their breeding range in Saskatchewan and Alberta (August 2013) and spring staging areas in Texas and Louisiana (March 2015). Five data files are included in the "Argos Raw Data" (Child Item 2) of this data release. Two data files (with identical content) contain the raw Argos DIAG (Diagnostic) data, one in the legacy verbose ASCII format and one in a tabular Comma Separate Value (CSV) format. Two other data files (with identical content) contain the raw Argos DS (Dispose) data, one in the legacy verbose ASCII format and one in a tabular CSV format. The fifth file, "deploymentAttributes", contains one record for each transmitter deployment in a CSV formatted table. The deployment attributes file contains information such as when the transmitter was attached to the animal, when tracking of a live animal ended, and a variety of variables describing the animal and transmitter. This table is identical to the "deploymentAttributes" table in the "Argos Processed Data" (Child Item 1) of this data release.

Tags: alberta, anas-discors, animal-tracking, animals-vertebrates, argos, bahamas, beaumont, biota, birds, blue-winged-teal, breeding-area, breeding-sites, brooks, canada, central-flyway, cuba, distribution, ducks-geese-swans, ecological-dynamics, environment, field-methods, field-sampling, galveston-bay, gulf-of-mexico, livonia, louisiana, mexico, migration, migration-organisms, migration-pathway, migratory-birds, migratory-strategies, ornithology, overwintering, platform-transmitter-terminal, port-barre, ptt, saskatchewan, satellite-transmitter, seasonal-distribution, seasonal-movement, species-life-history, species-migration, telemetry, texas, tracking-equipment, usgs-asc231, vanscoy, wildlife, wintering-area
Organization: Department of the Interior
Argos Satellite Tracking Data for Blue-winged Teal (Anas discors) - Processed Data

This metadata document describes the data contained in the "Argos Processed Data" (Child Item 1) of this data release. This data release contains all data collected by the Argos System from 42 satellite transmitters attached to Blue-winged Teal ducks on their breeding range in Saskatchewan and Alberta (August 2013) and spring staging areas in Texas and Louisiana (March 2015). The raw data were processed to accomplish two goals: flag implausible location estimates and decode raw sensor data. Three Comma Separate Value (CSV) tables are included in the "Argos Processed Data" (Child Item 1) of this data release: 1) the "diag_filteredLocations" table contains one record for every location estimate collected, accompanied by a binary flag that denotes an algorithm's plausibility check. Each record also includes a 'Tracking_Status' variable that denotes whether the location was collected from a live animal, a dead animal, or shed transmitter, 2) the "decodedSensor" table contains decoded sensor data such as a transmitter's temperature, battery voltage, and motion (activity), and 3) the "deploymentAttributes" table contains one record for each transmitter deployment in a CSV formatted table. The deployment attributes file contains information such as when the transmitter was attached to the animal, when tracking of a live animal ended, and a variety of variables describing the animal and transmitter. This table is identical to the "deploymentAttributes" table in the "Argos Raw Data" (Child Item 2) of this data release.

Tags: alberta, anas-discors, animal-tracking, animals-vertebrates, argos, bahamas, beaumont, biota, birds, blue-winged-teal, breeding-area, breeding-sites, brooks, canada, central-flyway, cuba, distribution, ducks-geese-swans, ecological-dynamics, environment, field-methods, field-sampling, galveston-bay, gulf-of-mexico, livonia, louisiana, mexico, migration, migration-organisms, migration-pathway, migratory-birds, migratory-strategies, ornithology, overwintering, platform-transmitter-terminal, port-barre, ptt, saskatchewan, satellite-transmitter, seasonal-distribution, seasonal-movement, species-life-history, species-migration, telemetry, texas, tracking-equipment, usgs-asc230, vanscoy, wildlife, wintering-area
Organization: Department of the Interior
Aerial Images of Alaska's Arctic Coastal Plain, 1974-1979

This dataset is comprised of 11 geo-referenced aerial images of two study areas (Teshekpuk Lake Special Area and the Chipp River) in the National Petroleum Reserve - Alaska (NPRA) on Alaska's Arctic Coastal Plain. The images are from aerial photo survey flown by NASA in 1974, 1977, 1979 and obtained from the Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center using the USGS EarthExplorer website in 2013. The images represent a historical snapshot of the landscape from that time.

Tags: aerial-photography, alaska, chipp-river, coastal-ecosystems, coastal-retreat, ecosystem-monitoring, environment, erosion, geoscientificinformation, geospatial-datasets, imagerybasemapsearthcover, lake-drainage, land-use-land-cover, landscape-change, landscape-processes, marine-transgression, national-petroleum-reserve-alaska, north-slope-borough, npr-a, npra, permafrost-degradation, remote-sensing, smith-river, succession-biological, teshekpuk-lake, teshekpuk-lake-special-use-area, tundra-ecosystems, usgs-asc23, wetland-ecosystems
Organization: Department of the Interior
Argos Satellite Tracking Data for Marbled Godwit (Limosa fedoa) - Raw Data

This metadata document describes the data contained in the "Argos Raw Data" (Child Item 2) of this data release. This data release contains all data collected by the Argos System from nine satellite transmitters attached to Marbled Godwits on their breeding range in southwest Alaska, USA. Five data files are included in the "Argos Raw Data" (Child Item 2) of this data release. Two data files (with identical content) contain the raw Argos DIAG (Diagnostic) data, one in the legacy verbose ASCII format and one in a tabular Comma Separate Value (CSV) format. Two other data files (with identical content) contain the raw Argos DS (Dispose) data, one in the legacy verbose ASCII format and one in a tabular CSV format. The fifth file, "deploymentAttributes", contains one record for each transmitter deployment in a CSV formatted table. The deployment attributes file contains information such as when the transmitter was attached to the animal, when tracking of a live animal ended, and a variety of variables describing the animal and transmitter. This table is identical to the "deploymentAttributes" table in the "Argos Processed Data" (Child Item 1) of this data release.

Tags: alaska, animal-tracking, animals-vertebrates, argos, biota, birds, breeding-area, breeding-sites, british-columbia, canada, ecological-dynamics, environment, limosa-fedoa, marbled-godwit, migration, migratory-birds, north-pacific-ocean, overwintering, platform-transmitter-terminal, ptt, sandpipers, satellite-transmitter, seasonal-distribution, seasonal-movement, species-life-history, species-migration, telemetry, tracking-equipment, ugashik, usgs-asc221, wildlife, wintering-area
Organization: Department of the Interior
Argos Satellite Tracking Data for Marbled Godwit (Limosa fedoa) - Processed Data

This metadata document describes the data contained in the "Argos Processed Data" (Child Item 1) of this data release. This data release contains all data collected by the Argos System from nine satellite transmitters attached to Marbled Godwits on their breeding range in southwest Alaska, USA. The raw data were processed to accomplish two goals: flag implausible location estimates and decode raw sensor data. Three Comma Separate Value (CSV) tables are included in the "Argos Processed Data" (Child Item 1) of this data release: 1) the "diag_filteredLocations" table contains one record for every location estimate collected, accompanied by a binary flag that denotes an algorithm's plausibility check. Each record also includes a 'Tracking_Status' variable that denotes whether the location was collected from a live animal, a dead animal, or shed transmitter, 2) the "decodedSensor" table contains decoded sensor data such as a transmitter's temperature, battery voltage, and motion (activity), and 3) the "deploymentAttributes" table contains one record for each transmitter deployment in a CSV formatted table. The deployment attributes file contains information such as when the transmitter was attached to the animal, when tracking of a live animal ended, and a variety of variables describing the animal and transmitter. This table is identical to the "deploymentAttributes" table in the "Argos Raw Data" (Child Item 2) of this data release.

Tags: alaska, animal-tracking, animals-vertebrates, argos, biota, birds, breeding-area, breeding-sites, british-columbia, canada, ecological-dynamics, environment, limosa-fedoa, marbled-godwit, migration, migratory-birds, north-pacific-ocean, overwintering, platform-transmitter-terminal, ptt, sandpipers, satellite-transmitter, seasonal-distribution, seasonal-movement, species-life-history, species-migration, telemetry, tracking-equipment, ugashik, usgs-asc220, wildlife, wintering-area
Organization: Department of the Interior