U.S.G.S. marine geologic studies in the Beaufort Sea off northern Alaska, 1970 through 1972; data type and location

1973 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter W. Barnes ◽  
Erk Reimnitz ◽  
C. Gustafson ◽  
B.R. Larsen
Keyword(s):  
Beaufort Sea ◽  
Data Type ◽  
Northern Alaska

USGS marine geologic studies in the Beaufort Sea, Alaska, 1979; data type, location, and records obtained

1980 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter W. Barnes ◽  
Erk Reimnitz ◽  
Edward Kempema ◽  
Peter Minkler ◽  
Robin Ross
Keyword(s):  
Beaufort Sea ◽  
Data Type

Diamond Jenness's archaeological investigations on Barter Island, Alaska

Polar Record ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 26 (157) ◽  
pp. 91-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart E. Jenness
Keyword(s):  
Canadian Arctic ◽  
Beaufort Sea ◽  
Available Information ◽  
Northern Alaska ◽  
Sea Coast

AbstractIn June and July 1914 DiamondJenness.amember of Stefansson's Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913–18, excavated 103 archaeological features in three abandoned native villages originally inhabited 400 to 550 years ago on Barter Island and nearby Arey Island, northern Alaska. His notes, diagrams, and some 3300 specimens for long remained unstudied. Recently they have been shown to provide much of the available information on the prehistoric occupation of the western Beaufort Sea coast.

scholarly journals Use of Subsistence-Harvested Whale Carcasses by Polar Bears in the Southern Beaufort Sea

ARCTIC ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 72 (4) ◽  
pp. 404-412 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate M. Lillie ◽  
Eric M. Gese ◽  
Todd C. Atwood ◽  
Mary M. Conner
Keyword(s):  
Polar Bear ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Beaufort Sea ◽  
Bowhead Whale ◽  
Annual Number ◽  
Polar Bears ◽  
Northern Coast ◽  
Open Population ◽  
Hair Samples ◽  
Northern Alaska

The availability of a food subsidy has the potential to influence the condition, behavior, fitness, and population dynamics of a species. Since the early 2000s, monitoring efforts along the coast of northern Alaska have indicated a higher proportion of polar bears (<i>Ursus maritimus</i>) of the southern Beaufort Sea (SB) subpopulation coming onshore to feed on subsistence-harvested bowhead whale (<i>Balaena mysticetus</i>) carcasses during the fall and early winter seasons. Concurrently, Indigenous communities annually hunt bowhead whale and deposit the unused remains at localized “bone piles,” creating the potential for human-bear interactions. Our objective was to determine the annual number of polar bears feeding at the bone pile near Kaktovik, Alaska. Using a hair snag surrounding the bone pile, we collected hair samples to identify individual bears via microsatellite genotypes during 2011 – 14. We used capture-mark-recapture data in the POPAN open-population model to estimate the number of bears visiting the bone pile. We estimated that as many as 72 (SE = 9) and 76 (SE = 10) male and female polar bears, respectively, used the bone pile located at Kaktovik, Alaska, in 2012, which represents approximately 16% of the SB polar bear subpopulation. It will be important to monitor the number of bears using the bone pile and subsequent human-bear interactions and conflicts along the northern coast of Alaska, if sea ice continues to recede.

scholarly journals A new genus and species of Thyasiridae (Mollusca, Bivalvia) from deep-water, Beaufort Sea, northern Alaska

ZooKeys ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 462 ◽  
pp. 11-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Valentich-Scott ◽  
Charles Powell ◽  
Thomas Lorenson ◽  
Brian Ewards
Keyword(s):  
Deep Water ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Beaufort Sea ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Northern Alaska

scholarly journals Population Declines of King and Common Eiders of the Beaufort Sea

The Condor ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 102 (1) ◽  
pp. 219-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert S. Suydam ◽  
D. Lynne Dickson ◽  
Janey B. Fadely ◽  
Lori T. Quakenbush
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Beaufort Sea ◽  
Common Eider ◽  
Western North America ◽  
Population Declines ◽  
King Eider ◽  
Somateria Spectabilis ◽  
Common Eiders ◽  
The Common ◽  
Northern Alaska

Abstract King (Somateria spectabilis) and Common Eiders (S. mollissima v-nigra) wintering off western North America migrate past Point Barrow, Alaska and across the Beaufort Sea to nest in northern Alaska and northwestern Canada. Migration counts were conducted by various researchers at Point Barrow during 1953, 1970, 1976, 1987, 1994, and 1996. We examined population trends by standardizing the analysis of the migration counts in all years. Based on this standardized procedure, the King Eider population appeared to remain stable between 1953 and 1976 but declined by 56% (or 3.9% year−1) from approximately 802,556 birds in 1976 to about 350,835 in 1996. The Common Eider population declined by 53% (or 3.6% year−1) from approximately 156,081 birds in 1976 to about 72,606 in 1996. Reasons for the declines are unknown.

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