AKOATS statewide stream and lake temperature monitoring inventory is underway! Got data? Need data?
Through a grant from the US Fish and Wildlife Service’s Western Alaska Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCC), University of Alaska Anchorage’s Alaska Natural Heritage Program is developing a comprehensive statewide inventory of current and historic continuous monitoring locations for stream and lake temperature. This project is one component of the LCC’s strategy to understand potential climate impacts to freshwater systems across Alaska.
Project Details
WHAT: This project is compiling a statewide catalog of monitoring locations using a common set of attributes. Future Landscape Conservation Cooperative LCC projects will entail gathering the aquatic temperature measurement data.
Please view our DRAFT version web map to see the current inventory which we are updating as data become available.
WHERE: All waters of Alaska.
WHO: AKOATS hopes to gather data from federal, state, local, tribal, academic, and non-governmental agencies monitoring aquatic temperatures.
HOW: Through a grant from the US Fish and Wildlife Service on behalf of the Western Alaska Landscape Conservation Cooperative (WALCC), we are developing a comprehensive statewide inventory of current and historic continuous monitoring locations for stream and lake temperature. This project is one component of the LCC’s strategy to understand potential climate impacts to freshwater systems across Alaska.
DATA CONTACT: If you: have collected (past), are collecting (present), or plan to collect (future) stream or lake temperature data and would like to have your sensors incorporated into AKOATS, please contact Marcus Geist at mageist@uaa.alaska.edu or 907-786-6325. We have developed domain driven (“picklists”) standards and templates to facilitate data compilation making your participation as easy as possible.
