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...
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...
Seabird, fisheries, marine mammal, and oceanographic investigations around Kasatochi, Koniuji, and Ulak Islands, August 1996 (SMMOCI 96-3)
Gary S. Drew, John F. Piatt, G. Vernon Byrd, Donald E. Dragoo
2003, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Report AMNWR 03/06
Although islands in the Aleutians are known to support some of the highest densities of seabirds in the world, their remoteness has limited systematic research on the at-sea distribution of seabirds near these colonies. Kasatochi, Koniuji, and Ulak islands, in the central Aleutian Islands, together comprise one of nine ecological...
Surgical implantation of transmitters into fish
Daniel M. Mulcahy
2003, ILAR Journal (44) 295-306
Although the Animal Welfare Act does not cover poikilotherms, individual institutions and policies and legal requirements other than the Animal Welfare Act (e.g., the US Public Health Service and the Interagency Research Animal Committee's Principles for the Utilization and Care of Vertebrate Animals Used in Testing, Research, and Training) require...
Controls on intrusion of near-trench magmas of the Sanak-Baranof Belt, Alaska, during Paleogene ridge subduction, and consequences for forearc evolution
Timothy M. Kusky, Dwight Bradley, D. Thomas Donely, David Rowley, Peter J. Haeussler
2003, Geological Society of America Special Papers (371) 269-292
A belt of Paleogene near-trench plutons known as the Sanak-Baranof belt intruded the southern Alaska convergent margin. A compilation of isotopic ages of these plutons shows that they range in age from 61 Ma in the west to ca. 50 Ma in the east. This migrating pulse of magmatism along...
High latitude marine reserve research in Glacier Bay National Park
S. James Taggart, Jennifer Mondragon, A.G. Andrews, J.K. Nielsen
2003, Alaska Park Science (2) 27-31
Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve is dominated by the marine waters that make up nearly one-fifth of the park’s area. Since the late 1800s, the nutrient rich waters of Glacier Bay have supported highly productive commercial fisheries. Congress closed fishing in parts of Glacier Bay National Park in 1999,...
Unlocking the secrets of Lake Clark sockeye salmon
Carol Ann Woody
2003, Alaska Park Science (2) 33-37
Sockeye salmon are a cornerstone species in many Alaska watersheds. Each summer, adults lay eggs in rocky nests called “redds,” and they die soon after. In spring, their fry emerge from gravels and then rear in a nearby freshwater lake for one year or more before migrating as smolt to...
Guidelines for long-term monitoring protocols
Karen L. Oakley, Lisa P. Thomas, Steven G. Fancy
2003, Wildlife Society Bulletin (31) 1000-1003
Monitoring protocols are detailed study plans that explain how data are to be collected, managed, analyzed, and reported, and are a key component of quality assurance for natural resource monitoring programs. Protocols are necessary to ensure that changes detected by monitoring actually are occurring in nature and not simply a...
Seabird tissue archival and monitoring project: Egg collections and analytical results 1999-2002
Stacy S. Vander Pol, Steven J. Christopher, David G. Roseneau, Paul R. Becker, Russel D. Day, John R. Kucklick, Rebecca S. Pugh, Kristin S. Simac, Geoff Weston-York
2003, Report
In 1998, the U.S. Geological Survey Biological Resources Division (USGS-BRD), the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge (AMNWR), and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) began the Seabird Tissue Archival and Monitoring Project (STAMP) to collect and cryogenically bank tissues from seabirds in...
Geologic signature of early Tertiary ridge subduction in Alaska
Dwight Bradley, Timothy M. Kusky, Peter J. Haeussler, Richard J. Goldfarb, Marti L. Miller, Julie A. Dumoulin, Steven W. Nelson, Susan M. Karl
2003, Geological Society of America Special Papers (371) 19-49
A mid-Paleocene to early Eocene encounter between an oceanic spreading center and a subduction zone produced a wide range of geologic features in Alaska. The most striking effects are seen in the accretionary prism (Chugach–Prince William terrane), where 61 to 50 Ma near-trench granitic to gabbroic plutons were intruded into...
USGS Alaska Tissue Archival Projects: An update on FY02 activities
Geoff Weston-York
2003, Conference Paper, Ninth information transfer meeting and Barrow information update meeting: Final proceedings (MMS 2003-042)
The banking of environmental specimens under cryogenic conditions for future retrospective analysis has been recognized for many years as an important part of environmental monitoring programs. Since 1987, the Alaska Marine Mammal Tissue Archival Project (AMMTAP) has been collecting tissue samples from marine mammals for archival in the National Biomonitoring...
Protocols for long-term monitoring of seabird ecology in the Gulf of Alaska
John F. Piatt, G. Vernon Byrd, Ann Harding, Arthur B. Kettle, Sasha Kitaysky, Michael A. Litzow, David G. Roseneau, Michael T. Shultz, Thomas I. van Pelt
2003, Report
Seabird populations will need to be monitored for many years to assess both recovery and ecological conditions affecting recovery. Detailed studies of individual seabird colonies and marine ecosystems in the Gulf of Alaska have been conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the...
Using the bootstrap and fast Fourier transform to estimate confidence intervals of 2D kernel densities
John W. Kern, Trent L. McDonald, Steven C. Amstrup, George M. Durner, Wallace P. Erickson
2003, Environmental and Ecological Statistics (10) 405-418
Metamorphism within the Chugach accretionary complex on southern Baranof Island, southeastern Alaska
Cathy L. Zumsteg, Glen R. Himmelberg, Susan M. Karl, Peter J. Haeussler
2003, Geological Society of America Special Papers (371) 253-267
On Baranof Island, southeastern Alaska, we identify four metamorphic events that affect rocks associated with the Chugach accretionary complex. This study focuses on the M1 and M4 metamorphic events. Mesozoic schists, gneisses, and migmatitic gneisses exposed near the Kasnyku pluton on central Baranof Island represent the M1 metamorphic rocks. These...
Bear-human interactions at Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve: Conflict risk assessment
Tom S. Smith, Terry D. DeBruyn, Tania Lewis, Rusty Yerxa, Steven T. Partridge
2003, Alaska Park Science (2) 20-25
Many bear-human conflicts have occurred in Alaska parks and refuges, resulting in area closures, property damage, human injury, and loss of life. Human activity in bear country has also had negative and substantial consequences for bears: disruption of their natural activity patterns, displacement from important habitats, injury, and death. It...
[Book Review] Biology of marine birds
Patrick G.R. Jodice, Daniel D. Roby, Michelle Antolos, Donald E. Lyons, Daniel Rizzolo, Sadie K. Wright, Cynthia D. Anderson, Scott K. Anderson, S. Kim Nelson, Adrian E. Gall, Liv Wennerberg
2003, The Auk (120) 240-245
A text devoted to the biology and ecology of marine birds has not been published in the last 15 years. Although a number of more taxa-specific texts have been produced during that period, there has not been a single publication that attempted to review our knowledge of all the major...
Ecology of selected marine communities in Glacier Bay: Zooplankton, forage fish, seabirds and marine mammals
Martin D. Robards, Gary S. Drew, John F. Piatt, Jennifer Marie Anson, Alisa A. Abookire, James L. Bodkin, Philip N. Hooge, Suzann G. Speckman
2003, Report
We studied oceanography (including primary production), secondary production, small schooling fish (SSF), and marine bird and mammal predators in Glacier Bay during 1999 and 2000. Results from these field efforts were combined with a review of current literature relating to the Glacier Bay environment. Since the conceptual model developed by...
Large woody debris and flow resistance in step-pool channels, Cascade Range, Washington
Janet H. Curran, Ellen E. Wohl
2003, Geomorphology (51) 141-157
Total flow resistance, measured as Darcy-Weisbach f, in 20 step-pool channels with large woody debris (LWD) in Washington, ranged from 5 to 380 during summer low flows. Step risers in the study streams consist of either (1) large and relatively immobile woody debris, bedrock, or roots that form fixed, or...
Two-dimensional inverse and three-dimensional forward modeling of MT (magnetotelluric) data to evaluate the mineral potential of the Amphitheater Mountains, Alaska, USA
Louise Pellerin, Jeanine M. Schmidt, G. Michael Hoversten
2003, Conference Paper, Proceedings of the 3DEM-3 symposium: Three dimensional electromagnetics III: ASEG Special Publications 2003(1)
As part of an integrated geological and geophysical study to assess the mineral potential in the Amphitheater Mountains of south-central Alaska, USA, two magnetotelluric (MT) profiles were acquired during the summer of 2002. The two parallel MT lines, along with helicopter electromagnetic (HEM) and magnetic data acquired by the State...
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
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Detecting denning polar bears with forward looking infra-red imagery (FLIR)
Steven C. Amstrup, Geoff Weston-York, T. L. McDonald, R. Neilsen, Kristin S. Simac, George M. Durner
2003, Conference Paper, Ninth information transfer meeting and Barrow information update meeting: Final proceedings (MMS 2003-042)
Polar bears give birth in snow dens in mid winter, and remain in dens until early spring. Survival and development of neonates is dependent on the stable environment within the maternal den. Petroleum related activities currently span approximately 200 km of the Alaskan Beaufort Sea coastal area. New and proposed...
The use of sea ice habitat by female polar bears in the Beaufort Sea
George M. Durner, Steven C. Amstrup, Ryan M. Nielson, Trent McDonald
2003, Conference Paper, Ninth information transfer meeting and Barrow information update meeting: Final proceedings (MMS 2003-042)
Polar bears (Ursus maritimus) depend on ice-covered seas to satisfy life history requirements. Modern threats to polar bears include oil spills in the marine environment and changes in ice composition resulting from climate change. Managers need practical models that explain the distribution of bears in order to assess the impacts...
Metal dispersion and mobility in soils from the Lik Zn-Pb-Ag massive sulphide deposit, NW Alaska: Environmental and exploration implications
K.D. Kelley, D. L. Kelley
2003, Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis (3) 179-195
The Lik deposit in northern Alaska is a largely unexposed shale-hosted Zn-Pb-Ag massive sulphide deposit that is underlain by continuous permafrost. Residual soils overlying the mineralized zone have element enrichments that are two to six times greater than baseline values. The most prominent elements are Ag, Mo, P, Se, Sr,...
Feedback dynamics of grazing lawns: Coupling vegetation change with animal growth
Brian T. Person, M.P. Herzog, Roger W. Ruess, J.S. Sedinger, R. Michael Anthony, Colleen A. Babcock
2003, Oecologia (135) 583-592
We studied the effects of grazing by Black Brant (Branta bernicla nigricans) geese (hereafter Brant) on plant community zonation and gosling growth between 1987 and 2000 at a nesting colony in southwestern Alaska. The preferred forage of Brant, Carex subspathacea, is only found as a grazing lawn. An alternate forage...
Are corticosterone levels a good indicator of food availability and reproductive performance in a kittiwake colony?
Richard B. Lanctot, Scott A. Hatch, Verena A. Gill, Marcel Eens
2003, Hormones and Behavior (43) 489-502
We evaluated the use of corticosterone to gauge forage availability and predict reproductive performance in black-legged kittiwakes (Rissa tridactyla) breeding in Alaska during 1999 and 2000. We modeled the relationship between baseline levels of corticosterone and a suite of individual and temporal characteristics of the sampled birds. We also provided supplemental food...
