Pilot Projects
The following projects were initiated in 1992-1993 to provide background information for implementation of the vital signs monitoring program.
Pilot Projects
- Evaluate remote sensing for monitoring purposes
- Finish documenting current and historic monitoring by park neighbors
- Support completion of the National Hydrologic Database (NHD) layer by the Bureau of Land Management
- GIS project to interpret types/classes of lakes in network that will feed into the NHD later
- Model vegetation work in Yukon-Charley and Wrangell-St. Elias for appropriate grid sizing based on slope, aspect, and elevation
- Get Alaska Department of Fish and Game harvest data into a useful format for the parks.
- Develop a plan to co-manage the Long Lake fish weir
- Establish fauna/habitat relationship models
- Determine the variation in forage quality within an ecoregion - assessment for future utility
Park Specific Projects
- Provide continued data mining help at Wrangell-St. Elias half a year
- Provide support to Wrangell-St. Elias park geologist
Physical Environment Implementation Projects
- Deploy eight fully-instrumented and two partially-instrumented climate monitoring stations
- Upgrade and review snow courses and aerial markers in all parks
- Develop a protocol for landsat imaging of snow quantification
- Establish a glacier index site at Wrangell-St. Elias
- Investigate use of QuickBird satellite imagery for permafrost monitoring
- Determine needs for stream monitoring equipment
- Purchase more climate monitoring stations with equipment category dollars in budget