Alaska Science Center Newsletter - Spring 2022
Polar Bear Zoo Research Masterplan and Video
USGS continues to study how a warming Arctic will affect polar bears. Learn how polar bears in zoos are helping fill knowledge gaps that benefit wild populations. USGS scientists recently collaborated on a Masterplan to prioritize future zoo research. The Masterplan identifies current zoo research and emerging scientific questions for polar bears in the wild that work in zoos can assist with.
Intern designs graphic showing how USGS collects and releases bird species checklist data to the public
This is a graphical abstract depicting the process that the USGS Alaska Science Center uses for compiling and releasing bird species checklist data to the public via USGS and eBird. Scientists from the USGS Alaska Science Center regularly work in remote field camps, often for days or weeks at a time. Though not the primary research focus of these camps, many researchers maintain…
Video on the North Pacific Marine Heatwave
This USGS video highlights women in science and their research and outreach on the impacts of the North Pacific Marine Heatwave in Alaska. The USGS is studying the impacts of marine heatwaves on ocean food webs using seabirds and their prey as key indicators. These studies allow citizens, scientists, and resource managers to understand responses of marine ecosystems to warming global temperatures.
Arctic Rivers Project
Connecting Indigenous knowledge and western science to strengthen collective understanding of the changing Arctic
Data
The Alaska Science Center Data Repository, a USGS Trusted Digital Repository, provides public access to the digital data from our research. See below for featured data sets and a list of all data releases from the USGS Alaska Science Center. All USGS released data sets are also listed in the USGS Science Data Catalog.