Integrating Stream Discharge and Temperature Monitoring for Tribal Partners in Southeast Alaska

Stream discharge and temperature patterns are being altered by climate change, but documenting these changes on the community level is challenging without community partners trained in suitable data collection techniques. The USGS Juneau Field Office is collaborating with the Yakutat Tlingit Tribe (YTT), the Southeast Alaska Tribal Ocean Research (SEATOR) network, and the Southeast Alaska Watershed Coalition (SAWC) to integrate stream discharge and stream temperature monitoring into ongoing Tribal-led climate adaptation, water quality, and species management projects. Stream discharge and temperature data is limited in Southeast Alaska and improving the spatial coverage of this data would be mutually beneficial...

Categories: Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2022, Alaska, Alaska CASC, Alaska Natives and Corporations, Alaska Natives and Corporations, All tags... CASC, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Peoples, Projects by Region, Rivers, Streams and Lakes, Rivers, Streams and Lakes, Water, Coasts and Ice, Water, Coasts and Ice, Fewer tags

A Classification of Streamflow Patterns Across the Coastal Gulf of Alaska

Streamflow controls many freshwater and marine processes, including salinity profiles, sediment composition, fluxes of nutrients, and the timing of animal migrations. Watersheds that border the Gulf of Alaska (GOA) comprise over 400,000 km2 of largely pristine freshwater habitats and provide ecosystem services such as reliable fisheries for local and global food production. Yet no comprehensive watershed‐scale description of current temporal and spatial patterns of streamflow exists within the coastal GOA. This is an immediate need because the spatial distribution of future streamflow patterns may shift dramatically due to warming air temperature, increased rainfall, diminishing snowpack, and rapid glacial recession....

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