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DOI: 10.18739/a2n00zv58
title: Cumulative Effects of Arctic Oil Development - planning and designing for sustainability

description: This project devises a sustainable approach to assessing the cumulative effects of oil exploration though combining detailed ground studies, local community input, industry involvement, and an international perspective. A three-pronged initiative is proposed: 1) A case study of the cumulative effects of industrial infrastructure at Prudhoe Bay, Alaska will focus on infrastructure-related effects associated with gravel mines, roads and other areas of gravel placement. The study will include ground-based studies, an examination of infrastructure and landscape change at multiple scales, and a human dimension component that includes evaluation of adaptive management planning for infrastructure in northern Alaska and CE studies associated with the Iñupiat village of Nuiqsut. The study will develop a process-based understanding of infrastructure-related permafrost/ landform/ vegetation succession in terrain undergoing thermokarst formation (the development of highly eroded landforms the result from the thawing of ice-rich permafrost). The study will help to answer the questions ?What will these areas look like in 50 -100 years?? and ? Can adaptive management methods address the complex issues related to placement, usage and decommissioning of infrastructure in Northern Alaska?? 2) An Arctic Infrastructure Action Group (AI-AG) will bring the CE issues to greater prominence in the international Arctic research community. The AI-AG will consist of local people who interact with development infrastructure, permafrost scientists, ecologists, hydrologists, engineers, social scientists and educators seeking to develop adaptive management strategies that address the unique issues related to networks of infrastructure in arctic permafrost environments. Three workshops will bring panarctic participants together, first in a scoping workshop and then to focus specifically on the two most rapidly expanding areas of Arctic infrastructure, the North Slope of Alaska and the Yamal Peninsula, Russia. 3) An education/outreach component will train students in arctic systems and introduce them to the issues of industrial development and adaptive management approaches during an expedition along the Elliott and Dalton highways in Alaska. The course will include a section at Prudhoe Bay to learn firsthand about the issues with oilfield infrastructure, its impacts and vegetation rehabilitation practices. Students will also visit the village of Nuiqsut to experience village life and discuss CE issues with the local residents.
DOI: 10.18739/a2cf9j783
title: Collaborative Research. IPY: The Polaris Project: Rising Stars in the Arctic

description: The Polaris Project is engaging students and early career scientists in a multifaceted effort that includes: a field course and research experience for undergraduate students in the Siberian Arctic; several new arctic-focused undergraduate courses taught by project Co-PIs at their respective colleges across the United States and in Russia; the opportunity for Co-PIs to initiate research programs in the Siberian Arctic; and a wide range of outreach activities. The unifying scientific theme for the project is the transport and transformations of carbon and nutrients as they move with water from terrestrial uplands to the Arctic Ocean. Given the rapid changes underway in the Arctic, the broader impact of this project is found in the availability of project related materials; its training of future leaders in arctic research and education as well as its education of the public through student and faculty visits to K-12 classrooms; student generated and maintained blogs on their research and experiences; and inclusion in the GoNorth curriculum (www.polarhusky.com) which is used in thousands of K-12 schools worldwide.
DOI: 10.18739/a2h70822d
title: Baseline of Next-Generation Arctic Marine Shipping Assessments - Oldest Continuous Pan-Arctic Satellite Automatic Identification System (AIS) Data Record of Maritime Ship Traffic, 2009-2016

description: The Arctic is prominent in the history of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), following the RMS Titanic disaster in 1912 and soon signing in London of the Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea in 1914. Eighty years later, the IMO initiated a process to manage shipping in ice-covered oceans. In concert with the IMO Guidelines for Ships Operating in Arctic Ice-Covered Waters in 2002 and their 2004 release of the Arctic 2004 Arctic Climate Impact Assessment, the Arctic Council initiated the Arctic Marine Shipping Assessment (AMSA), which issued its final report in 2009. The goal of this chapter is to build on AMSA as a case study of informed decisionmaking through the steps of questions to generate data, which are then integrated into evidence to reveal options (without advocacy), informing decisions by relevant institutions to address a ‘continuum of urgencies’ that involve shipping in the new Arctic Ocean with its transformed sea-ice cap, assessing whether shipping is increasing as sea ice is decreasing (‘ship-ice hypothesis’). Primary sources of data for AMSA involved ship tracking from ground-station Automatic Identification System (AIS), shore-based radar systems and details of fishing vessels as well as other smaller ships provided by the Arctic nations. However, Arctic ship traffic fundamentally changed the year of the AMSA report, when satellite AIS records began providing continuous, synoptic, pan-Arctic coverage of individual ships with data pulsed over seconds to minutes. This chapter reveals the oldest and longest continuous satellite AIS record (from 1 September 2009 through 31 December 2016), applying the ‘spacetime cube’ (which also was unavailable during AMSA) with more than 120,000,000 satellite AIS messages from SpaceQuest Ltd. to begin addressing synoptic questions with any level of granularity from points to regions to pan-Arctic over time. Future questions can be considered to assess ship attributes (including vessel flag state, size and type) in view of biophysical and socio-economic variables, recognizing that shipping and sea ice are recognized as primary drivers of change in the Arctic Ocean. Contributions to these assessments come from all areas of science (inclusively defined as the study of change), across the natural and social sciences with Indigenous knowledge in an holistic (international, interdisciplinary and inclusive) manner to achieve Arctic sustainability across generations. As a practical outcome in a user-defined manner, this chapter reveals characteristics of next-generation Arctic marine shipping assessments, revealing patterns and trends that can be applied to informed decisionmaking about the governance mechanisms and built infrastructure as well as operations for multilateral stability and sustainable development in the new Arctic Ocean.
DOI: 10.18739/a23x83m93
title: Into the Arctic -- Information and Educational Activities for Studying Climate

description: 'Into the Arctic' contains educational materials about climate and climate history in the Arctic that use real data and questions from the Greenland Ice Sheet Project Two (GISP2). It is in the form of a single zip file which can be expanded and the files burned to a CD. Beginning in 1993, scientists from all over the world participated in the GISP2 project to drill through 3,000 meters of ice in Greenland, and discovered a history of the world's climate. Inspired by the research results from GISP2, 'Into the Arctic' offers instructional materials and activities for teachers to use in the many contexts of their daily teaching routines. Its unique feature is that it provides data collected and used by research scientists, and it provides students with the questions scientists grapple with in their research. There are no right or wrong answers. Students are presented with the data, and they are free to suggest answers to the questions posed. Lessons and activities are designed for use by secondary through lower-level college students studying Earth science, geography, history, social studies or chemistry. Information and activities are divided into four sections: Climate, Climate Change, El Nino, and the Greenland Ice Sheet Project 2. The subjects selected range from the broad (Climate and Climate Change) to the more specific (El Nino and the Greenland Ice Sheet Project 2) to provide the reader with background in Earth science that can then be applied using broadly related case studies.
DOI: 10.18739/a2057ct6r
title: Learning about environmental research in the context of climate change: an international scholastic interchange

description: This project creates an international science research exchange between the Inupiaq students of the North Slope of Alaska and Zapotec and Purehepecha student of Oaxaca and Michoacan, Mexico to research, observe, and experience the science of biodiversity and climate change both in Mexico and Alaska. Inupiaq students will travel to Mexico and Zapotec and Purehepecha students will travel to Alaska to immerse themselves in the local environment, language, and culture of each others regions. This exchange project will provide a global context within which local students can understand their environmental and social cultural experiences. In addition, the anthropological investigators will be observing the cultural construction of science and education among the participants, including scientists, teachers, and students.
DOI: 10.18739/a2vh5ck24
title: Terrestrial Circumarctic Environmental Observatories Network (CEON)

description: The key objective of this three-year award is to further the international and multidisciplinary development of the terrestrial Circumarctic Environmental Observatories Network (CEON, www.ceoninfo.org). CEON's mission is to strengthen the capacity for emerging monitoring, research and policy needs at high northern latitudes by making data available that is adequate and suitable for addressing a series of well defined key scientific questions and uncertainties. As a priority, this award aims to satisfy the immediate developmental needs identified by the CEON stakeholder community and, where relevant, the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA). This award will also support several other initiatives with a strong Arctic and environmental observation focus, including the second International Conference on Arctic Research Planning (ICARP II), the US National Academy of Sciences blue ribbon panel designing an Arctic Observation Network (AON), and the International Polar Year (IPY). Specifically, this award will: 1. Establish a joint US-Swedish CEON Science Coordination Office (SCO). This is critical for CEONs transition to becoming a fully implemented and multi-laterally funded international network. 2. Convene annual CEON stakeholder and working group meetings to foster the community-based decision making necessary for the development of CEON. Annual stakeholder meetings are likely to attract up to 150 arctic and non-arctic specialists and will encourage CEON partners to convene meetings before or after the CEON meeting and hold and/or participate in workshops that will be used, for example, to offer instruction on standardized sampling protocols and technologies. 3. Continue the development of novel web-based information portals and visualization tools that improve the capacity for transferring scientific, logistic, and educational knowledge and information both within and outside of CEON. These include a CEON email list, the CEON-Internet Map Server (CEON-IMS - www.ceonims.org), the capacity to build regionalized IMS applications centered on focal observatory platforms partnered to CEON, a methodological and standards database, and novel visualization tools that enhance education, outreach and information interactivity.
DOI: 10.18739/a2th8bp3c
title: Nares Strait HLY03-05GC Holocene Sediment Data

description: This data set contains paleoceanographic data from core HLY03-05GC taken during cruise HLY03 to Nares Strait in 2003, part of the Canadian Archipelago Throughflow Study (CATS). The sedimentologic (sieve fractions), paleoceanographic (foraminifers, stable isotopes) and mineralogic (quantitative x-ray diffraction (QXRD) mineralogy) data from radiocarbon-dated core HLY03-05GC, Hall Basin, northern Nares Strait are included in this dataset. Sieve data were acquired during sieving for foraminiferal sample preparation. Sieve fractions include &gt;1mm, 1mm-106*micro*m, 106-63*micro*m. Stable C and O analyses were made at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) on C. neoteretis and N. pachyderma sinistral. QXRD data were measured at the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR) using X-ray diffraction. These data are formatted as an Excel document. Core HLY03-05 GC: 81*deg*37.286'N, 63*deg*15.467'W, 372cm long, 797m water depth.
DOI: 10.18739/a2k06x256
title: Otter Lake (Alaska) Sediment Data for Lake-Level Reconstructions (NSF Award #0909362)

description: For this collaborative research project, Lehigh University was responsible to derive a lake record from south-central Alaska to reconstruct environmental change and to understand nonlinearities of climate change during the Holocene. The multi-proxy record from Otter Lake was used to reconstruct lake-level change. The data include loss on ignition (LOI), geochemical analyses (XRF) and other sedimentary proxies from 16,000 to 4000 calibrated years before present (cal year BP).
DOI: 10.18739/a2pr7mv9m
title: Organic analysis for late Holocene sediment from the Beaufort Sea coastal zone

description: The PIs propose to develop a new, high-resolution (annual to subdecadal) paleoclimate record (0 to ~2,000 y) from sediment cores taken in Arctic lagoonal settings adjacent to rivers emptying into the Beaufort Sea. This effort is a follow-up to an EAGER award that allowed collection of initial core material and a seismic dataset in Simpson Lagoon near the Colville River delta in August 2010. Initial results suggest that these sediment cores contain a valuable history of system response to climate change on the adjacent continent (e.g., river drainage basins) and terrestrial-marine linkages. All cores will be analyzed for stratigraphy (X-radiography), bulk organic and mineral content, granulometry, and geochronology (239,240Pu/137Cs). Detailed analysis for paleoclimate proxies will be carried out: the age-depth relationship for the deeper part of these cores will be determined using radiocarbon. Climate indicators that will be applied are organic biomarkers (lignin-phenols, cutins, plant pigments, and ä13C) and mineral tracers (major and trace element chemistry, stable isotopes, clay mineralogy, heavy mineral assemblages, granulometry, event-layer stratigraphy). The central hypothesis is that lagoonal settings within the Beaufort Sea contain high quality sediment records because they receive sediment input from larger rivers that drain the Brooks Range, that, if exploited, will dramatically improve our knowledge of high Arctic paleoclimate over the last two millenia. The PIs hypothesize three distinct sources: 1) rivers that drain the Brooks Range and the Arctic Coastal Plain (ACP), 2) storms that erode shoreline permafrosted ACP deposits and overwash barrier islands, and 3) marine primary production by phytoplankton, ice algae, and benthos. After an initial micro-scale examination of recent event layer (annual and storm deposits) mineral and POC succession, necessary to interpret paleoclimate-induced fluctuations in composition, they will examine the downcore record of temporal variations in layers, contrasting sites to decouple spatial changes in sources. Since the three source end-members have distinct mineral/POC composition, they believe that temporal variations will provide proxy information about climate changes that influence their flux magnitude including 1) landfast ice extent, 2) river sediment supply from the glaciated uplands, 3) permafrost thawing, 4) summer-fall storminess, and 5) coastal primary productivity. Noting the rapid changes that have occurred in the Arctic during the latter half of the 20th century, the federal interagency Study of Environmental Arctic Change (SEARCH) program has cited the need to determine to what extent recent and ongoing climate changes in the Arctic can be attributed to anthropogenic forcing. A successful project will contribute to answering that question.
DOI: 10.18739/a29g5gf66
title: Paleoenvironment, Geomorphic Processes, and Carbon Stocks of Drained Thaw-lake Basins in the Arctic Coastal Plain, Alaska, USA, 2002-2005

description: These data are from a study of the origin and associated geomorphological, ecological, and pedological processes of thaw-lake basins of the Arctic Coastal Plain, Alaska. The research utilized high-resolution multispectral satellite data, ground-penetrating radar, and extensive coring to estimate the amount of carbon sequestered in the drained basins. Investigators used radiometric dating, microfossil analysis, and soil development to determine whether carbon accumulation rates respond to regional changes in climate, or if they are influenced by local rates of plant succession. Investigators reported depths, adjusted depths, radiocarbon dates, calibrated radiocarbon dates, pollen, microfossils, soil bulk density, total organic carbon (TOC), and other descriptive statistics from the spring and summer seasons of April 2002 through April 2005. Data are in Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, TIFF, JPEG, and ArcView Shapefile formats.
DOI: 10.18739/a25q4rn3j
title: Qalluuraq Lake, Alaska 12,000 Year Multiproxy Methane Sediment Data

description: This dataset contains multiproxy sediment data from Qalluuraq Lake, Alaska, for the past 12,000 years. Paleoenvironmental proxies measured include stable isotopic ratios, organic carbon, magnetics, and plant macrofossils. The data are available as either a text or an Excel file on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Paleoclimatology website (follow the download link provided).
DOI: 10.18739/a2x921k89
title: Table 2 - Hg and trace element variations in piston core PC-01 96/1, Lomonosov Ridge, Arctic Ocean (Gleason et al)

description: Hg and trace element variations for Pleistocene-age sediment in piston core Oden/PC-01 96/12 (Lomonosov Ridge, Arctic Ocean) by magnetic sector ICP-MS (bulk sediment acid digests), and CV-AAS for Hg (cold vapor atomic absorption spectroscopy). Core 96/12 PC-01 is archived at the University of Stockholm, Department of Geological Sciences (Jakobsson et al., 2000).
DOI: 10.18739/a2sj19s45
title: Western Arctic Quaternary foraminiferal stratigraphy, Northwind Ridge

description: Data were generated on sediment cores from the Northwind Ridge, western Arctic Ocean, to understand the Quaternary paleoceanography and sea-ice history based on benthic foraminiferal assemblages and lithostratigraphy. See Polyak et al., 2013 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.12.018) for more detail.
DOI: 10.18739/a2j09w56f
title: Arctic Slope Shoreline Change Risk Spatial Data Model, 2015-16

description: The Arctic Slope Shoreline Change Risk Spatial Data Model consists of shoreline change susceptibility information from the Arctic Slope Shoreline Change Susceptibility Spatial Data Model (Brady 2017) summarized at asset locations defined by a local community-verified Arctic Slope at-risk asset spatial data model. Specifically, this data product is shoreline change susceptibility information added to attribute tables of a variety of asset spatial data for at-risk coastal Arctic Slope assets. The purpose of the data is to identify shoreline change risk to assets of interest to stakeholders selected during an Instructional Systems Design (ISD) process to develop a shoreline change risk WebGIS in collaboration with the North Slope Borough. Data are forthcoming and inquiries concerning the data should be directed to Michael Brady.
DOI: 10.18739/a2ns0m00f
title: Radiocarbon ages of subfossil plants, northwest Greenland

description: This dataset includes sample information and metadata for radiocarbon ages of organic remains collected in northwest Greenland during summers 2012 and 2014. There are 60 ages of subfossil plant remains that have been recently exposed at the margins of the Greenland Ice Sheet and North Ice Cap. 6 ages are of subfossil plant remains transported along shear planes in the Greenland Ice Sheet margin near Thule Air Base. 2 ages are of subfossil plant remains transported along shear planes in the Greenland Ice Sheet margin in Nuntarssuaq. 24 ages are of subfossil plant remains in situ, recently exposed by the receding Greenland Ice Sheet margin in Nunatarssuaq. 7 ages are of subfossil plant remains transported along shear planes in the North Ice Cap margin in Nuntarssuaq. 16 ages are of subfossil plant remains in situ, recently exposed by the receding North Ice Cap margin in Nunatarssuaq. 1 age is of subfossil plant remains in situ, recently exposed by the receding the Tunnel Glacier margin in Nunatarssuaq. 4 ages are of plant remains in sediment cores from BEMEWS lake, near Thule Air Base. Data reported are direct radiocarbon measurements made at the National Ocean Sciences Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (NOSAMS) facility. Columns 16 and 17 contain sample latitudes and longitudes, and samples 18 and 19 contain general sample locations and whether samples occurred in situ or not.
DOI: 10.18739/a2d795c16
title: Arctic Slope Shoreline Change Susceptibility Spatial Data Model, 2015-16

description: Shoreline change susceptibility information added to 50-meter transects created by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) as part of their National Assessment of Shoreline Change Project, Alaska (Gibbs and Richmond 2015). Shoreline change susceptibility information added to the USGS transects are based on the USGS Coastal Vulnerability Index (CVI) adapted to the Arctic context by including wind-fetch distances based on historical sea ice extents. Transects also include landform information from ShoreZone (ShoreZone.org), and historical shoreline change calculated by the USGS (Gibbs and Richmond 2015). The purpose of the data is to identify shoreline change susceptibility at areas of interest to stakeholders selected during an Instructional Systems Design (ISD) process to develop a shoreline change risk WebGIS in collaboration with the North Slope Borough. Gibbs, A.E., and Richmond, B.M., 2015, National assessment of shoreline change: Historical shoreline change along the north coast of Alaska, U.S.-Canadian border to Icy Cape: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2015-1048, 96 p., https://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ofr20151048. Data are forthcoming and inquiries concerning the data should be directed to Michael Brady.