Inventory of marine and estuarine fishes in southeast and central Alaska National Parks
Mayumi L. Arimitsu, Michael A. Litzow, John F. Piatt, Martin D. Robards, Alisa A. Abookire, Gary S. Drew
2003, Report
As part of a national inventory program funded by the National Park Service, we conducted an inventory of marine and estuarine fishes in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, Sitka National Historical Park, and Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park in 2001 and 2002....
Interferometric Synthetic Aperture radar studies of Alaska volcanoes
Zhong Lu, Charles W. Wicks Jr., Daniel Dzurisin, John A. Power, Wayne R. Thatcher, Timothy Masterlark
2003, Earth Observation Magazine (5) 8-18
In this article, we summarize our recent InSAR studies of 13 Alaska volcanoes, including New Trident, Okmok, Akutan, Kiska, Augustine, Westdahl, Peulik, Makushin, Seguam, Shishaldin, Pavlof, Cleveland, and Korovin volcanoes....
Alaska resource data file: Valdez quadrangle
Travis L. Hudson
2003, Open-File Report 2003-30
The data presented here are maintained as part of a statewide database on mines, prospects and mineral occurrences throughout Alaska....
Principal facts for 408 gravity stations in the vicinity of the Talkeetna Mountains, south-central Alaska
Robert L. Morin, Jonathan M. G. Glen
2003, Open-File Report 2003-27
Gravity data were collected between 1999 and 2002 along transects in the Talkeetna Mountains of south-central Alaska as part of a geological and geophysical study of the framework geology of the region. The study area lies between 61° 30’ and 63° 45’ N. latitude and 145° and 151° W. longitude....
Results of elemental and stable isotopic measurements, and dietary composition of Arctic grayling (Thymallus arcticus) collected in 2000 and 2001 from the Fortymile River Watershed, Alaska
J.G. Crock, R.R. Seal II, L. P. Gough, P. Weber-Scannell
2003, Open-File Report 2003-57
We report the results of the elemental and stable isotopic analyses, as well as the composition of stomach contents, of Arctic grayling (Thymallus arcticus), an ecologically important resident freshwater sport and subsistence fish in the Fortymile River Mining District of the Interior Highlands Ecoregion in eastern Alaska. These data are...
Economics of undiscovered oil in Federal Lands on the National Petroleum Reserve, Alaska
E. D. Attanasi
2003, Open-File Report 2003-44
Geochemistry of natural gas, North Slope, Alaska: Implications for gas resources, NPRA
Robert A. Burruss, Paul G. Lillis, Timothy S. Collett
2003, Open-File Report 2003-41
No abstract available....
Beaufortian stratigraphic plays in the National Petroleum Reserve - Alaska (NPRA)
David W. Houseknecht
2003, Open-File Report 2003-40
The Beaufortian megasequence in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPRA) includes Jurassic through lower Cretaceous (Neocomian) strata of the Kingak Shale and the overlying pebble shale unit. These strata are part of a composite total petroleum system involving hydrocarbons expelled from source rocks in three stratigraphic intervals, the...
Brookian stratigraphic plays in the National Petroleum Reserve - Alaska (NPRA)
David W. Houseknecht
2003, Open-File Report 2003-39
The Brookian megasequence in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPRA) includes bottomset and clinoform seismic facies of the Torok Formation (mostly Albian age) and generally coeval, topset seismic facies of the uppermost Torok Formation and the Nanushuk Group. These strata are part of a composite total petroleum system...
Rupture in south-central Alaska: The Denali Fault earthquake of 2002
Gary S. Fuis, Lisa A. Wald, James W. Hendley II, Peter H. Stauffer
2003, Fact Sheet 014-03
No abstract available....
Alaska resource data file: Taku River quadrangle
John C. Barnett, Lance D. Miller
2003, Open-File Report 2003-38
No abstract available....
Mitochondrial phylogeography of moose (Alces alces) in North America
Kris J. Hundertmark, R. Terry Bowyer, Gerald F. Shields, Charles C. Schwartz
2003, Journal of Mammalogy (84) 718-728
Nucleotide variation was assessed from the mitochondrial control region of North American moose (Alces alces) to test predictions of a model of range expansion by stepping-stone dispersal and to determine whether patterns of genetic variation support the current recognition of 4 subspecies. Haplotypes formed a star phylogeny indicative of a...
Alaska coal resources and coalbed methane potential
Romeo M. Flores, Gary D. Stricker, Scott A. Kinney
2003, Bulletin 2198
Map and digital database of sedimentary basins and indications of petroleum in the Central Alaska Province
Sandra M. Troutman, Richard G. Stanley
2003, Open-File Report 2002-483
This database and accompanying text depict historical and modern reported occurrences of petroleum both in wells and at the surface within the boundaries of the Central Alaska Province. These data were compiled from...
Reply
Richard W. Saltus, T. L. Hudson, Susan M. Karl, R. L. Morin
2003, Geology (31) 92-92
No abstract available....
Sea otter studies in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve: annual report 2002
James L. Bodkin, Kimberly A. Kloecker, George G. Esslinger, Daniel H. Monson, Heather A. Coletti, Janet Doherty
2003, Report
Since 1995, the number of sea otters in Glacier Bay proper has increased from around 5 to more than 1200. Sea otter distribution is mostly limited to the Lower Bay, south of Sandy Cove, and is not continuous within that area. Concentrations occur in the vicinity of Sita Reef and...
Rooted Brooks Range ophiolite: Implications for Cordilleran terranes: Comment and reply: COMMENT
Ron A. Harris, Thomas E. Moore, Karl Wirth, C. G. Mull, John McBride
2003, Geology (31) 91-92
No abstract available....
Seismic hazard exposure for the Trans-Alaska Pipeline
L.S. Cluff, R.A. Page, D.B. Slemmons, C.B. Grouse
Beavers J.E., editor(s)
2003, Conference Paper, Technical Council on Lifeline Earthquake Engineering Monograph
The discovery of oil on Alaska's North Slope and the construction of a pipeline to transport that oil across Alaska coincided with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 and a destructive Southern California earthquake in 1971 to cause stringent stipulations, state-of-the-art investigations, and innovative design for the pipeline. The...
Formation and evolution of valley-bottom and channel features, Lower Deschutes River, Oregon
Janet H. Curran, Jim E. O’Conner
Jim E. O’Conner, Gordon E. Grant, editor(s)
2003, AGU Water Science and Application Series 7-5
Primary geologic and geomorphic processes that formed valley-bottom and channel features downstream from the Pelton-Round Butte dam complex are inferred from a canyon-long analysis of feature morphology, composition, location, and spatial distribution. Major controls on valley-bottom morphology are regional tectonics, large landslides, and outsized floods (floods with return periods greater...
Sea otter
James L. Bodkin, K.W. Kenyon
G.A. Feldhamer, B.C. Thompson, J.A. Chapman, editor(s)
2003, Book chapter, Wild Mammals of North America: Biology, management, and conservation
No abstract available....
Seagrasses of the Pacific Coast of North America
David H. Ward, S.E. Ibarra-Obando
Edmund P. Green, Frederick T. Short, editor(s)
2003, Book chapter, World atlas of seagrasses
No abstract available....
Geochemistry of the Johnson River, Lake Clark National Park and Preserve, Alaska
Timothy P. Brabets, James R. Riehle
2003, Water-Resources Investigations Report 2003-4252
The Johnson River Basin, located in Lake Clark National Park and Preserve, drains an area of 96 square miles. A private inholding in the upper part of the basin contains a gold deposit that may be developed in the future. To establish a natural baseline to compare potential effects on...
Host and geographic range extensions of the North American strain of viral hemorrhagic septicemia virus
R.P. Hedrick, W.N. Batts, S. Yun, G.S. Traxler, J. Kaufman, J. R. Winton
2003, Diseases of Aquatic Organisms (55) 211-220
Viral hemorrhagic septicemia virus (VHSV) was isolated from populations of Pacific sardine Sardinops sagaxfrom the coastal waters of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, and central and southern California, USA. The virus was also isolated from Pacific mackerel Scomber japonicus in southern California, from eulachon or smeltThaleichthys pacificus, and surf smelt Hypomesus pretiosus pretiosus from Oregon,...
Sea otter population declines in the Aleutian Archipelago
Angela M. Doroff, James A. Estes, M. Tim Tinker, Douglas M. Burn, Thomas J. Evans
2003, Journal of Mammalogy (84) 55-64
Sea otter (Enhydra lutris) populations were exploited to near extinction and began to recover after the cessation of commercial hunting in 1911. Remnant colonies of sea otters in the Aleutian archipelago were among the first to recover; they continued to increase through the 1980s but declined abruptly during the 1990s....
A late quaternary record of eolian silt deposition in a maar lake, St. Michael Island, western Alaska
D.R. Muhs, T. A. Ager, J. Been, J.P. Bradbury, W.E. Dean
2003, Quaternary Research (60) 110-122
Recent stratigraphic studies in central Alaska have yielded the unexpected finding that there is little evidence for full-glacial (late Wisconsin) loess deposition. Because the loess record of western Alaska is poorly exposed and not well known, we analyzed a core from Zagoskin Lake, a maar lake on St. Michael Island,...
