Northwest Boreal Science and Management Research Tool

Start Date

2015

End Date

2020

Release Date

2015

Throughout Alaska, land managers and rural communities are being called upon to develop climate adaptation strategies that prepare for changes in terrestrial habitat characteristics and their associated resources and services. Discovery of relevant documents and data sources is one of the greatest challenges for land use managers and stakeholders within Alaska despite -- and because of -- the tsunami of information available on the Internet. A focused document portal with geospatial and semantic search capabilities would assist land use mangers in their decision-making and planning processes by connecting them to current and historical research and scientific reports within their region of interest. Effective scientific communication and outreach relies on improving access for stakeholders to discover research, plans, and data within their geographic area of interest. The tool allows users to search by keyword and geography to find relevant documents (i.e., peer-reviewed journal articles, government reports, land use management plans, dissertations, theses, etc.) across the boreal. The Northwest Boreal Landscape Conservation Cooperative is pleased to announce the launch of the Northwest Boreal Science and Management Research Tool. Explore thousands of curated scholarly articles, state and federal resource reports, land management plans, and more. Each entry includes geographic information about the area of study, allowing users to draw a box on a map to narrow searches to information directly related to a specific region in Alaska, the Yukon, British Columbia, and Northwest Territories.

ScienceBase WMS

• Alaska CASC
• National and Regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers