Coastal Resilience Explanatory Poster

Poster describing Coastal Resilience process and strategy.

Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Aleutian Bering Sea Islands LCC data.gov, CLIMATE ADVISORIES, CLIMATE ADVISORIES, CLIMATE INDICATORS, All tags... CLIMATE INDICATORS, CLIMATE INDICATORS, CLIMATE INDICATORS, COASTAL AREAS, COASTAL AREAS, COASTAL AREAS, COASTAL AREAS, COASTAL ELEVATION, COASTAL ELEVATION, COASTAL HABITAT, COASTAL HABITAT, COASTAL LANDFORMS, COASTAL LANDFORMS, COASTAL LANDFORMS/PROCESSES, COASTAL LANDFORMS/PROCESSES, COASTAL PROCESSES, COASTAL PROCESSES, COASTAL PROCESSES, COASTAL PROCESSES, Conservation NGOs, ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY, ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY, Federal resource managers, Hunters & anglers, INDIGENOUS/NATIVE SPECIES, INDIGENOUS/NATIVE SPECIES, Interested public, K-12 students & teachers, LCC Network Science Catalog, Policy makers & regulators, Private land owners, Publication, Regional & county planners, State agencies, Tribes, biota, biota, completed, environment, environment, society, society, Fewer tags

Executive Summary: Coastal Change Projects in W. AK 2015

Research on coastal change in Western Alaska has increased rapidly in recent years, making it challenging to track existing projects, understand their cumulative insights, gauge remaining research gaps, and prioritize future research. This project identified existing coastal change projects in Western Alaska that were happening in 2014, scheduled for 2015 or occured in 2012-2014. The report (below) provides a synthesis of information about each project category, and an associated online database (see ACCAP project page link below) describes individual projects and information on how to contact the project leader. These products document the project landscape for communities facing change, decision-makers navigating...

Categories: Data; Tags: COASTAL AREAS, COASTAL AREAS, COASTAL HABITAT, COASTAL HABITAT, COASTAL LANDFORMS, All tags... COASTAL LANDFORMS, COASTAL LANDFORMS/PROCESSES, COASTAL LANDFORMS/PROCESSES, COASTAL PROCESSES, COASTAL PROCESSES, Interested public, LCC Network Science Catalog, Regional & county planners, Report, Western Alaska Landscape Conservation Cooperative data.gov, biota, biota, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, completed, elevation, elevation, environment, environment, geoscientificInformation, geoscientificInformation, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, oceans, oceans, society, society, transportation, transportation, Fewer tags

Interactive pdf Map: Lowland Change Classes

This project resulted in an extensive mapping of coastal change along the entire coastline of the Western Alaska Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCC). The work provides important baseline information on the distribution and magnitude of landscape changes over the past 41 years. The extent of change to the coastline and to coastal features, such as spits, barrier islands, estuaries, tidal guts and lagoons, was known to be substantial in some areas along the coast (e.g., portions of the Yukon–Kuskokwim Delta), although the extent of change along the full Bering Sea coast was not well documented. With this analysis, changes can be summarized for different land ownerships or other units to assess the extent of recent...

Categories: Data; Tags: BARRIER ISLANDS, BARRIER ISLANDS, BARRIER ISLANDS, BARRIER ISLANDS, COASTAL AREAS, All tags... COASTAL AREAS, COASTAL LANDFORMS/PROCESSES, COASTAL LANDFORMS/PROCESSES, COASTAL LANDFORMS/PROCESSES, COASTAL LANDFORMS/PROCESSES, DEGRADATION, DEGRADATION, DELTAS, DELTAS, DEPOSITION, DEPOSITION, EROSION, EROSION, EROSION, EROSION, EROSION/SEDIMENTATION, EROSION/SEDIMENTATION, ESTUARIES, ESTUARIES, ESTUARIES, ESTUARIES, FLUVIAL LANDFORMS/PROCESSES, FLUVIAL LANDFORMS/PROCESSES, Federal resource managers, INLETS, INLETS, KARST LANDFORMS/PROCESSES, KARST LANDFORMS/PROCESSES, LACUSTRINE PLAIN, LACUSTRINE PLAIN, LAGOONS, LAGOONS, LAGOONS, LAGOONS, LANDSCAPE PROCESSES, LANDSCAPE PROCESSES, LCC Network Science Catalog, LONGSHORE CURRENTS, LONGSHORE CURRENTS, MEANDER, MEANDER, PERMAFROST, PERMAFROST, RIVER, RIVER, ROCKY COASTS, ROCKY COASTS, Regional & county planners, SEDIMENT TRANSPORT, SEDIMENT TRANSPORT, SEDIMENTATION, SEDIMENTATION, SHORELINES, SHORELINES, SPITS AND BARS, SPITS AND BARS, STORM SURGE, STORM SURGE, SUBSIDENCE, SUBSIDENCE, SUBSURFACE DRAINAGE, SUBSURFACE DRAINAGE, Tribes, VISUALIZATION/IMAGE PROCESSING, VISUALIZATION/IMAGE PROCESSING, Western Alaska Landscape Conservation Cooperative data.gov, completed, environment, environment, geoscientificInformation, geoscientificInformation, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, map, oceans, oceans, Fewer tags

Coastal Resilience Toolbox

In Alaska, changes in snow, ice, and weather, have resulted in risks to human lives, infrastructure damage, threats to valuable natural resources, and disruption of hunting, fishing, and livelihoods.Leaders from the Aleutians to the Chukchi Sea came together for a series of Coastal Resilience and Adaptation Workshops, spearheaded by three Landscape Conservation Cooperatives and the Aleutian Pribilof Islands Association. Tribal leaders, resource managers, community planners, and scientists explored strategies to adapt to these unprecedented changes.The workshop series brought together 14 Organizing Partners 34 Tribes, 15 State & Federal Agencies, and a total of more than 200 participants to meet in four regional...

Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Aleutian Bering Sea Islands LCC data.gov, CLIMATE ADVISORIES, CLIMATE ADVISORIES, CLIMATE INDICATORS, All tags... CLIMATE INDICATORS, CLIMATE INDICATORS, CLIMATE INDICATORS, COASTAL AREAS, COASTAL AREAS, COASTAL AREAS, COASTAL AREAS, COASTAL ELEVATION, COASTAL ELEVATION, COASTAL HABITAT, COASTAL HABITAT, COASTAL LANDFORMS, COASTAL LANDFORMS, COASTAL LANDFORMS/PROCESSES, COASTAL LANDFORMS/PROCESSES, COASTAL PROCESSES, COASTAL PROCESSES, COASTAL PROCESSES, COASTAL PROCESSES, Conservation NGOs, ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY, ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY, Federal resource managers, Hunters & anglers, INDIGENOUS/NATIVE SPECIES, INDIGENOUS/NATIVE SPECIES, Interested public, K-12 students & teachers, LCC Network Science Catalog, Policy makers & regulators, Private land owners, Publication, Regional & county planners, State agencies, Tribes, biota, biota, completed, environment, environment, society, society, Fewer tags

Final report for ​​The role of sea ice berm formation to alter environmental marine forcing in West Alaska coastal communities

This project engaged several Western Alaska coastal communities to describe types and formation processes associated with near-shore sea-ice phenomena during the fall freeze-up season, in particular as relevant to coastal erosion, flooding, and shoreline protection. Commentary and indigenous and local observations were drawn from and analyzed through existing community observing programs (SIZONet and ANTHC-LEO) as well as from new interviews and meetings conducted for this project. Extensive work was performed to summarize, assess, and synthesize written and recorded observations and commentary. A primary result was identification of a range of slush-ice berm events that could be broadly categorized as “advective”...

Categories: Data; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, COASTAL AREAS, COASTAL AREAS, COASTAL LANDFORMS/PROCESSES, COASTAL LANDFORMS/PROCESSES, All tags... COASTAL PROCESSES, COASTAL PROCESSES, Federal resource managers, ICE DEPTH/THICKNESS, ICE DEPTH/THICKNESS, LCC Network Science Catalog, MODELS, MODELS, Report, STORM SURGE, STORM SURGE, STORMS, STORMS, Tribes, Western Alaska Landscape Conservation Cooperative data.gov, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, completed, disaster, disaster, environment, environment, oceans, oceans, Fewer tags

Final Project Report: Reconnaissance static occupation of Tidal Benchmarks in western Alaska

Static occupations of tidal and geodetic benchmarks in Western Alaska were undertaken in the summers of 2013 and 2014. Project accomplishments far exceeded the proposed project objective of obtaining and sharing data for benchmarks in 8 different communities; in total, this work has resulted in the occupation of 44 benchmarks in 15 different communities. 32 of these datasets met National Geodetic Survey (NGS) minimum criteria for ‘shared solutions’ and have been uploaded to the Online Positioning User Service (OPUS) shared public database. This data has also been used to augment the tidal datum conversion database at the Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys (DGGS) and the scientific geodetic database...

Categories: Data; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, COASTAL AREAS, COASTAL AREAS, COASTAL ELEVATION, COASTAL ELEVATION, All tags... COASTAL LANDFORMS, COASTAL LANDFORMS, COASTAL LANDFORMS/PROCESSES, COASTAL LANDFORMS/PROCESSES, COASTAL PROCESSES, COASTAL PROCESSES, FLOODING, FLOODING, Federal resource managers, INUNDATION, INUNDATION, LCC Network Science Catalog, Report, SEA LEVEL CHANGE, SEA LEVEL CHANGE, SEA LEVEL RISE, SEA LEVEL RISE, State agencies, TIDES, TIDES, Western Alaska Landscape Conservation Cooperative data.gov, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, completed, elevation, elevation, environment, environment, geoscientificInformation, geoscientificInformation, oceans, oceans, Fewer tags

Final Report: Storm surge impacts on biological resources in the Yukon Kuskokwim Delta

A high spatial resolution storm surge model was developed for the YK Delta area to assess biological impacts of storm surges under current and future climates. Storm surges are expected to be more frequent and more severe in the YK Delta area due to climate change and sea level rise. The biological impacts in the YK Delta due to the changed storm surges could be extreme.The model was assessed with respect to measured water level data at the coast and, where available, spatial extent of inundation, for 6 storms from the period 1992 to 2011. In total, inundation projections from 9 historical storms (5 from the assessment + 4 others) were developed. For each storm, an spatial inundation index (time-integral of water...

Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: ARCHAEOLOGICAL AREAS, ARCHAEOLOGICAL AREAS, Academics & scientific researchers, COASTAL AREAS, COASTAL AREAS, All tags... COASTAL HABITAT, COASTAL HABITAT, COASTAL LANDFORMS/PROCESSES, COASTAL LANDFORMS/PROCESSES, CONSERVATION, CONSERVATION, CULTURAL FEATURES, CULTURAL FEATURES, DELTAS, DELTAS, DELTAS, DELTAS, DUCKS/GEESE/SWANS, DUCKS/GEESE/SWANS, EROSION, EROSION, ESTUARINE WETLANDS, ESTUARINE WETLANDS, FLOOD PLAIN, FLOOD PLAIN, FLOODING, FLOODING, FLOODS, FLOODS, FLOODS, FLOODS, Federal resource managers, HAZARD MITIGATION/PLANNING, HAZARD MITIGATION/PLANNING, INLETS, INLETS, INUNDATION, INUNDATION, LACUSTRINE WETLANDS, LACUSTRINE WETLANDS, LANDSCAPE PROCESSES, LANDSCAPE PROCESSES, LCC Network Science Catalog, LOCAL SUBSIDENCE TRENDS, LOCAL SUBSIDENCE TRENDS, MARSHES, MARSHES, MODELS, MODELS, PALUSTRINE WETLANDS, PALUSTRINE WETLANDS, PEATLANDS, PEATLANDS, PERMAFROST, PERMAFROST, Report, SALINITY, SALINITY, SALTWATER INTRUSION, SALTWATER INTRUSION, SEA LEVEL RISE, SEA LEVEL RISE, SEA LEVEL RISE, SEA LEVEL RISE, SEDIMENT TRANSPORT, SEDIMENT TRANSPORT, SEDIMENTATION, SEDIMENTATION, SEVERE STORMS, SEVERE STORMS, STORM SURGE, STORM SURGE, STORM SURGE, STORM SURGE, STORMS, STORMS, Tribes, VEGETATION, VEGETATION, VEGETATION COVER, VEGETATION COVER, VULNERABILITY LEVELS/INDEX, VULNERABILITY LEVELS/INDEX, Western Alaska Landscape Conservation Cooperative data.gov, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, completed, elevation, elevation, environment, environment, geoscientificInformation, geoscientificInformation, oceans, oceans, Fewer tags

Sense of Place: ShoreZone in the Classroom Curriculum Implementation

The ShoreZone in the Classroom Curriculum Implementation project built upon the ShoreZone in the Classroom Pilot Networking Trip. Educational Consultant Marie Acemah liaised over email and in-person at the North Slope School District (NSBSD) Curriculum Camp in Barrow to develop Curricular Units that make ShoreZone available as an educational tool in NSBSD classrooms. This project resulted in two Units, specifically: 1) Coastal Ecosystems Unit; and 2) Documentary Filmmaking Summer Intensive Proposal. The ShoreZone tool is now available and accessible throughout the NSBSD district. The District and the Ilusagvik College are interested in partnering with ShoreZone to lead for-credit summer documentary film camps in...

Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Arctic Landscape Conservation Cooperative data.gov, COASTAL LANDFORMS/PROCESSES, COASTAL LANDFORMS/PROCESSES, EDUCATION/OUTREACH, EDUCATION/OUTREACH, All tags... Interested public, LCC Network Science Catalog, Report, Tribes, completed, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, society, society, Fewer tags

Webinar 2015 June 10

Research and management studies on coastal change in Western Alaska has increased rapidly in recent years, making it challenging to track existing projects, understand their cumulative insights, gauge remaining information gaps, and prioritize future projects. The goal of this effort is to identify current coastal research and management projects that are taking place in Western Alaska and to synthesize information into a report that documents the ‘project landscape’ for communities facing change, decision-makers navigating change, researchers pursuing projects, as well as funding agencies trying to prioritize where to allocate resources. To identify coastal change projects, we first conducted an extensive Internet...

Categories: Data; Tags: COASTAL AREAS, COASTAL AREAS, COASTAL HABITAT, COASTAL HABITAT, COASTAL LANDFORMS, All tags... COASTAL LANDFORMS, COASTAL LANDFORMS/PROCESSES, COASTAL LANDFORMS/PROCESSES, COASTAL PROCESSES, COASTAL PROCESSES, Interested public, LCC Network Science Catalog, Regional & county planners, Western Alaska Landscape Conservation Cooperative data.gov, biota, biota, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, completed, elevation, elevation, environment, environment, geoscientificInformation, geoscientificInformation, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, oceans, oceans, presentation, society, society, transportation, transportation, Fewer tags

W. AK benchmark survey and installation priorities

Understanding the causes of relative sea level rise requires knowledge of changes to both land (uplift and subsidence) and sea level. However, measurements of coastal uplift or subsidence are almost completely lacking in western Alaska. This project provided precise measurements of prioritized benchmarks across the Western Alaska geography, improving the network of published tidal benchmark elevations, allowing for tidal datum conversion in more places, and providing a necessary component for improved inundation studies in coastal communities and low-lying areas. The project’s map of vertical velocities (uplift/subsidence) of western Alaska (see ‘Final Project Report’ & ‘Vertical Velocity Map’, below) will be combined...

Categories: Data; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, COASTAL AREAS, COASTAL AREAS, COASTAL ELEVATION, COASTAL ELEVATION, All tags... COASTAL LANDFORMS, COASTAL LANDFORMS, COASTAL LANDFORMS/PROCESSES, COASTAL LANDFORMS/PROCESSES, COASTAL PROCESSES, COASTAL PROCESSES, FLOODING, FLOODING, Federal resource managers, INUNDATION, INUNDATION, LCC Network Science Catalog, Report, SEA LEVEL CHANGE, SEA LEVEL CHANGE, SEA LEVEL RISE, SEA LEVEL RISE, State agencies, TIDES, TIDES, Western Alaska Landscape Conservation Cooperative data.gov, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, completed, elevation, elevation, environment, environment, geoscientificInformation, geoscientificInformation, oceans, oceans, Fewer tags

Coastal Resilience and Adaptation

In Alaska, changes in snow, ice, and weather, have resulted in risks to human lives, infrastructure damage, threats to valuable natural resources, and disruption of hunting, fishing, and livelihoods.Leaders from the Aleutians to the Chukchi Sea came together for a series of Coastal Resilience and Adaptation Workshops, spearheaded by three Landscape Conservation Cooperatives and the Aleutian Pribilof Islands Association. Tribal leaders, resource managers, community planners, and scientists explored strategies to adapt to these unprecedented changes.The workshop series brought together 14 Organizing Partners 34 Tribes, 15 State & Federal Agencies, and a total of more than 200 participants to meet in four regional...

Categories: Collection, Data; Tags: CLIMATE ADVISORIES, CLIMATE INDICATORS, COASTAL AREAS, COASTAL ELEVATION, COASTAL HABITAT, All tags... COASTAL LANDFORMS, COASTAL LANDFORMS/PROCESSES, COASTAL PROCESSES, Collection, INDIGENOUS/NATIVE SPECIES, LCC Network Science Catalog, biota, completed, environment, society, Fewer tags

Presentation Slides, 2015 Nov 18

A high spatial resolution storm surge model was developed for the YK Delta area to assess biological impacts of storm surges under current and future climates. Storm surges are expected to be more frequent and more severe in the YK Delta area due to climate change and sea level rise. The biological impacts in the YK Delta due to the changed storm surges could be extreme.The model was assessed with respect to measured water level data at the coast and, where available, spatial extent of inundation, for 6 storms from the period 1992 to 2011. In total, inundation projections from 9 historical storms (5 from the assessment + 4 others) were developed. For each storm, an spatial inundation index (time-integral of water...

Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: ARCHAEOLOGICAL AREAS, ARCHAEOLOGICAL AREAS, Academics & scientific researchers, COASTAL AREAS, COASTAL AREAS, All tags... COASTAL HABITAT, COASTAL HABITAT, COASTAL LANDFORMS/PROCESSES, COASTAL LANDFORMS/PROCESSES, CONSERVATION, CONSERVATION, CULTURAL FEATURES, CULTURAL FEATURES, DELTAS, DELTAS, DELTAS, DELTAS, DUCKS/GEESE/SWANS, DUCKS/GEESE/SWANS, EROSION, EROSION, ESTUARINE WETLANDS, ESTUARINE WETLANDS, FLOOD PLAIN, FLOOD PLAIN, FLOODING, FLOODING, FLOODS, FLOODS, FLOODS, FLOODS, Federal resource managers, HAZARD MITIGATION/PLANNING, HAZARD MITIGATION/PLANNING, INLETS, INLETS, INUNDATION, INUNDATION, LACUSTRINE WETLANDS, LACUSTRINE WETLANDS, LANDSCAPE PROCESSES, LANDSCAPE PROCESSES, LCC Network Science Catalog, LOCAL SUBSIDENCE TRENDS, LOCAL SUBSIDENCE TRENDS, MARSHES, MARSHES, MODELS, MODELS, PALUSTRINE WETLANDS, PALUSTRINE WETLANDS, PEATLANDS, PEATLANDS, PERMAFROST, PERMAFROST, SALINITY, SALINITY, SALTWATER INTRUSION, SALTWATER INTRUSION, SEA LEVEL RISE, SEA LEVEL RISE, SEA LEVEL RISE, SEA LEVEL RISE, SEDIMENT TRANSPORT, SEDIMENT TRANSPORT, SEDIMENTATION, SEDIMENTATION, SEVERE STORMS, SEVERE STORMS, STORM SURGE, STORM SURGE, STORM SURGE, STORM SURGE, STORMS, STORMS, Tribes, VEGETATION, VEGETATION, VEGETATION COVER, VEGETATION COVER, VULNERABILITY LEVELS/INDEX, VULNERABILITY LEVELS/INDEX, Western Alaska Landscape Conservation Cooperative data.gov, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, completed, elevation, elevation, environment, environment, geoscientificInformation, geoscientificInformation, oceans, oceans, presentation, Fewer tags

Interactive pdf Map: All Change Classes

This project resulted in an extensive mapping of coastal change along the entire coastline of the Western Alaska Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCC). The work provides important baseline information on the distribution and magnitude of landscape changes over the past 41 years. The extent of change to the coastline and to coastal features, such as spits, barrier islands, estuaries, tidal guts and lagoons, was known to be substantial in some areas along the coast (e.g., portions of the Yukon–Kuskokwim Delta), although the extent of change along the full Bering Sea coast was not well documented. With this analysis, changes can be summarized for different land ownerships or other units to assess the extent of recent...

Categories: Data; Tags: BARRIER ISLANDS, BARRIER ISLANDS, BARRIER ISLANDS, BARRIER ISLANDS, COASTAL AREAS, All tags... COASTAL AREAS, COASTAL LANDFORMS/PROCESSES, COASTAL LANDFORMS/PROCESSES, COASTAL LANDFORMS/PROCESSES, COASTAL LANDFORMS/PROCESSES, DEGRADATION, DEGRADATION, DELTAS, DELTAS, DEPOSITION, DEPOSITION, EROSION, EROSION, EROSION, EROSION, EROSION/SEDIMENTATION, EROSION/SEDIMENTATION, ESTUARIES, ESTUARIES, ESTUARIES, ESTUARIES, FLUVIAL LANDFORMS/PROCESSES, FLUVIAL LANDFORMS/PROCESSES, Federal resource managers, INLETS, INLETS, KARST LANDFORMS/PROCESSES, KARST LANDFORMS/PROCESSES, LACUSTRINE PLAIN, LACUSTRINE PLAIN, LAGOONS, LAGOONS, LAGOONS, LAGOONS, LANDSCAPE PROCESSES, LANDSCAPE PROCESSES, LCC Network Science Catalog, LONGSHORE CURRENTS, LONGSHORE CURRENTS, MEANDER, MEANDER, PERMAFROST, PERMAFROST, RIVER, RIVER, ROCKY COASTS, ROCKY COASTS, Regional & county planners, SEDIMENT TRANSPORT, SEDIMENT TRANSPORT, SEDIMENTATION, SEDIMENTATION, SHORELINES, SHORELINES, SPITS AND BARS, SPITS AND BARS, STORM SURGE, STORM SURGE, SUBSIDENCE, SUBSIDENCE, SUBSURFACE DRAINAGE, SUBSURFACE DRAINAGE, Tribes, VISUALIZATION/IMAGE PROCESSING, VISUALIZATION/IMAGE PROCESSING, Western Alaska Landscape Conservation Cooperative data.gov, completed, environment, environment, geoscientificInformation, geoscientificInformation, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, map, oceans, oceans, Fewer tags