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Alaska Research Activities

Implanting a transmitter at field camp, Alaska.

The research program of the Alaska Unit will be aimed at understanding the ecology of Alaska's fish and wildlife; evaluating impacts of land use and development on these resources; and relating effects of social and economic needs to production and harvest of natural populations.

In addition to the expected Unit functions of graduate student training/ instruction and technical assistance, research efforts will be directed at problems of productivity, socioeconomic impacts, and perturbation on fish and wildlife populations, their habitats and ecosystems. Fisheries research will emphasize water quality, habitat characteristics, and life history requirements of arctic and subarctic fish populations. Wildlife research will focus on evaluation of habitat quality and ecology of northern birds and mammals. Unit research will also be directed at integrated studies of fish and wildlife at the ecosystem level.

Alaska Active Projects

Alaska Completed Projects

Alaska Peer Reviewed Publications

  • Hayes, D.J., D.P. Turner, G. Stinson, A.D. McGuire Y. Wei, T.O. West, L.S. Heath, B. deJong, B. McConkey, R. Birdsey, W.A. Kurz, A. Jacobson, D.N. Huntzinger, Y. Pan, W.M. Post, and R.B. Cook. 2012. Reconciling estimates of the contemporary North American carbon balance among terrestrial biosphere models, atmospheric inversions and a new approach for estimating net ecosystem exchange from inventory-based data. Global Change Biology 18:1282-1299. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02627.x.
  • Robertson, G.P., S.L. Collins, D.R. Foster, N. Brokaw, H.W. Ducklow, T.L Gragson, C. Gries, S.K. Hamilton, A.D. McGuire, J.C. Moore, E.H. Stanley, R.B. Waide, and M.W. Williams. 2012. Long Term Ecological Research in a Human-Dominated World. BioScience 62:342-353.
  • O’Donnell, J.A., M.T. Jorgenson, J.W. Harden, A.D. McGuire, M.Z. Kanevskiy, and K.P. Wickland. 2012. The effects of permafrost thaw on soil hydrologic, thermal and carbon dynamics in an Alaskan peatland. Ecosystems 15:213-229. DOI: 10.1007/s10021-011-9504-0.
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Alaska Technical Publications

  • Michalak, A.M., R.B. Jackson, G. Marland, C. Sabine, and the Carbon Cycle Science Working Group (including A.D. McGuire). 2011. A U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Plan. University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admistration PMEL Contribution 3731. 69 pages.
  • Roberts, A., J. Cassano, R. Doscher, L. Hinzman, M. Holland, H. Mitsudera, A. Sumi, J.E. Walsh, and major contributors (including A.D. McGuire). 2010. A Science Plan for Regional Arctic System Modeling: A Report by the Arctic Research Community for the National Science Foundation Office of Polar Programs. International Arctic Research Center Technical Paper 10-0001. 47 pp.
  • Powell, A. N., A. R. Taylor, and R. B. Lanctot. 2010. Pre-migratory ecology and physiology of shorebirds staging on Alaska's North Slope. Final Report OCS Study MMS 2009-034, School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK. 126 pp.
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Alaska Theses and Dissertations

  • Roach, J. 2011. Lake area change in Alaskan National Wildlife Refuges: Magnitude, Mechanisms, and Heterogeneity. PhD Dissertation, University of Alaska Fairbanks. 225 pp.
  • Churchill, A. 2011. Plant and ecosystem physiological responses to environmental controls on primary production in Alaskan peatlands. MS Thesis, University of Fairbanks. 110 pp.
  • Gates, H.R. 2011. Reproductive ecology and morphometric subspecies comparisons of dunlin (Calidris alpina), an arctic shorebird. MS Thesis, University of Alaska Fairbanks. 78 pp.
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Current Staff

Federal Staff: 4

Masters Students: 16

Phd Students: 8

Post Docs: 5

University Staff: 5

5 Year Summary

Students graduated: 47

Scientific Publications: 110

Presentations: 231

 

Alaska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit Cooperators

  1. Alaska Department of Fish and Game
  2. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
  3. U.S. Geological Survey
  4. University of Alaska Fairbanks
  5. Wildlife Management Institute