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NPS | 2019
Alaska’s boreal forest burns every summer somewhere. To predict which areas are most susceptible to wildfire, managers assess fuel dryness and burnability using weather data collected at Remote…
NPS | 2019
The Everglades National Park (EVER) and Big Cypress National Preserve (BICY) vegetation mapping project is part of the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP). The CERP is a cooperative…
NPS | 2019
Bering Land Bridge National Preserve and Cape Krusenstern National Monument encompass approximately 1,600 km of predominantly soft-sediment Arctic coastlines rich in biological resources. These…
BIA | 2012
The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) has about 80 permanent Remote Sensing Weather Stations (RAWS), and about 19 portable RAWS, for helping assess Wildland Fire Danger across Indian country. The Bureau…
NPS | 2012
The Great Smoky Mountains National Park is collecting light detection and ranging (lidar) data in partnership with the State of North Carolina and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to develop high-…
NPS | 2012
The topography of many Alaskan national parks has changed greatly over the last 50 years primarily because of glacier retreat and downwasting (thinning). Glaciers have downwasted as much as 640 m and…
NPS | 2012
Snow cover plays a major role in the energy and freshwater balances of Alaska, and variability in snow cover extent and duration are climatologically important. The Southwest Alaska Network Inventory…
NPS | 2012
Warming in the northern high latitudes is expected to alter freeze and break-up dates of lake ice, affecting lake ecosystems, wildlife migration and habitat, human subsistence, and recreation. …
NPS | 2012
The National Park Service (NPS) Arctic Inventory and Monitoring Network (ARCN) is concerned with understanding widespread ecological changes in the northern Alaskan national parks. Repeat…
NPS | 2012
The lowlands of the NPS ARCN, like much of the arctic and subarctic, have extensive areas of lakes and ponds. According to the National Hydrography Dataset (USGS NHD 2012) there are approximately 1,…
NPS | 2012
The Alaska Shallow Lake Monitoring Program monitors the water quantity, water chemistry, littoral vegetation community composition, and macroinvertebrate communities of shallow lakes in the Arctic (…
NPS | 2012
The NPS along with other Federal and State agencies in Alaska are partnering in a multi-year multi-million-dollar mapping initiative to update topographic (elevation) information for the entire State…