Greater White-Fronted Goose Genetic Data, Circumpolar, 1988-2009

This data set describes nuclear microsatellite genotypes derived from eight autosomal loci (BCA6, BCA9, BCA11, BCA5, CRG, OXY13, TSP1.20.09 and TSP1.20.46) and a 366 base pair portion of the mitochondrial control region. A total of 665 Greater White-fronted Geese were examined by genotyping and 518 by sequencing with samples coming from its circumpolar range representing multiple flyways (Midcontinent, Pacific, Greenland, Palearctic). The sex of most samples was determined in the field by morphology or cloacal examination. Version History: First release: June 2018 Revised: July 2018 (ver. 2.0)

Categories: Data, Data Release - Revised; Tags: Alaska, Alleles, Anadyr, Anderson River, Animals/vertebrates, All tags... Anser albifrons, Biota, Birds, Bristol Bay, Brooks Range, Colville River, Cook Inlet, DNA, Ducks/Geese/Swans, Environment, Gene Flow, Genetic Markers, Genetic Variance, Genetics, Genetics, Genotype, Greater White-Fronted Goose, Greenland, Innoko National Wildlife Refuge, Ireland, Kanuti National Wildife Refuge, Kava, Kent Peninsula, Kolyma, Koyukuk National Wildlife Refuge, Kuparuk River, Kuskokwim River, Lena, MacKenzie River, Microsatellite Repeats, Molecular biology, North Slope, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Old Crow Flats, Point Lay, Polymerase chain reaction, Population differentiation, Population genetics, Queen Maud Gulf, Rasmussen Basin, Selawik National Wildlife Refuge, Speciation (biological), Taimyr, Terrestrial Ecosystems, Terrestrial ecosystems, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Vaygach, Victoria Island, Wildlife, Wildlife Biology, Yana, Yukon, Yukon River, Yukon–Kuskokwim Delta, Fewer tags

Lidar Point Cloud Data of Nogahabara Sand Dunes, Alaska, September 2015

This dataset provides information needed to reproduce a digital model of the Nogahabara Dune Field located in interior Alaska. The Nogahabara Dunes represent one of three active inland dune fields found in Alaska today. In an effort to update geospatial coverage of the dunes lidar data was collected over Nogahabara Sand Dunes in September 2015 using a 1955 Cessna 180 aircraft equipped with a Riegl brand LMS-Q240i laser scanner. The scanner was set to 10,000 laser shots per second and a +/- 30 degree beam sweep and flown over the Koyukuk National Wildlife Refuge's Nogahabara sand dunes. The flight pattern was designed for 50 percent overlap between each adjacent swath to achieve 2 points per square meter over the...

Categories: Data; Tags: Active Remote Sensing, Aerial surveys, Airborne sensing, Dunelands, Dunes, All tags... Ecological Dynamics, Elevation, Employing equipment carried by low flying aircraft, Fire Dynamics, Fire Ecology, GeoScientificInformation, Geomorphology, Huslia, ImageryBaseMapsEarthCover, Koyukuk National Wildlife Refuge, Koyukuk Wilderness, Koyukuk Wilderness, Land Surface, Lidar, Light Detection and Ranging, Nogahabara Sand Dunes, Remote sensing, Second order fire effects, Terrain Elevation, Terrestrial Ecosystems, Topography, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Fewer tags

Alaska Landbird Monitoring Survey Dataset

Boreal Partners in Flight developed the Alaska Landbird Monitoring Survey (ALMS) primarily to monitor breeding populations of landbirds in the vast off-road areas of Alaska in conjunction with data collected from the roadside North American Breeding Bird Survey (BBS). ALMS is a collaborative program in which agencies and other entities conduct standardized surveys of breeding birds and their habitats on the lands they manage and then provide the data to the U.S. Geological Survey Alaska Science Center for analysis and archiving. The ALMS monitoring program comprises a set of survey blocks that have been selected in a stratified-random design primarily across state and Federal natural resource lands in Alaska with...

Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Admiralty Island, Alaska, Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska Peninsula, Alaska Peninsula National Wildlife Refuge, All tags... Andreafsky Wilderness, Animal and plant census, Animals/vertebrates, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Biodiversity, Biogeography, Biota, Bird behavior, Birds, Chugach National Forest, Chugach State Park, Copper River Census Area, Copper River Delta Fish and Wildlife Management Area, Cranes and allies, Denali National Park and Preserve, Denali State Park, Detection distance, Ducks/geese/swans, Eagle/falcons/hawks and allies, East Fork Skagway River, Ecology, Ecology, Environment, Environmental conditions, Fairbanks North Star Borough, Field inventory and monitoring, Fort Greely, Grebes, Habitats, Herons/egrets and allies, Innoko National Wildlife Refuge, James Dalton Mountain, Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Kanuti National Wildlife Refuge, Kenai Wilderness, Klondike Gold Rush National Historic Park, Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge, Koyukuk National Wildlife Refuge, Koyukuk River, Loons, Migratory birds, Mitkof Island, Mount Fairplay, National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska, Natlaratlen River, North Slope Borough, Nowitna National Wildlife Refuge, Ornithology, Perching Birds, Resident birds, Sandpipers, Selawik National Wildlife Refuge, South Baranof Wilderness, Spatial distribution, Taku Glacier, Terrestrial ecosystems, Tetlin National Wildlife Refuge, Tongass National Forest, Tracy Arm-Fords Terror Wilderness, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Waders/gulls/auks and allies, Wildlife, Wildlife Biology, Fewer tags

Corrected Fire Perimeters of Alaska's National Wildlife Refuges

This data package includes 481 geospatial vector polygons of historic fire perimeters associated with National Wildlife Refuges in Alaska. These polygons, originally held within the Alaska Large Fire Database (ALFD), were reviewed and found to have geospatial inaccuracies with respect to the fire they represent. They were corrected and updated based on a variety of remote sensing resources; the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS) database (https://www.mtbs.gov/viewer/index.html), geospatial rasters of historic fire activity derived from Landsat 1-9 imagery in the Google Earth Engine(https://earthengine.google.com) environment, and historical air photos acquired through EarthExplorer (https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/)....

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Alaska, Alaska Peninsula National Wildlife Refuge, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Becharof National Wildlife Refuge, Disturbance, All tags... Environment, Fires, Forestry, Habitat alteration and disturbance, Innoko National Wildlife Refuge, Izembeck National Wildlife Refuge, Kanuti National Wildlife Refuge, Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge, Koyukuk National Wildlife Refuge, Land Use / Land Cover, Land Use Change, Landsat, Landscape, Landscape Processes, Nowitna National Wildlife Refuge, Remote Sensing, Remote sensing, Selawik National Wildlife Refuge, Tetlin National Wildlife Refuge, Togiak National Wildlife Refuge, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wildland fire, Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge, Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge, Fewer tags