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Southeast Alaska NetworkInventory and Monitoring Program
Oceanography
Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve
Justification
• GLBA is quintessentially marine.
• Virtually every park resource is strongly connected to the marine environment.
• Virtually every park management issue is strongly connected to the marine environment.
Southeast Alaska NetworkInventory and Monitoring Program
Objective
Compile dataset of oceanographic conditions:• Seasonal and interannual
changes in oceanographic parameters.
• Spatial and temporal variation in distribution and abundance patterns of marine organisms.Southeast Alaska Network
Inventory and Monitoring Program
Technical Approach
Hydrographic surveys:• 22 stations bi-annually (resolve
annual signals and detect long-term trends)
• 8 stations monthly (resolve seasonal signals)
Core parameters:• temperature, salinity, light
penetration, turbidity, fluorescence, dissolved oxygen.Southeast Alaska Network
Inventory and Monitoring Program
Southeast Alaska NetworkInventory and Monitoring Program May 6, 2009
Southeast Alaska NetworkInventory and Monitoring Program May 6, 2009
Southeast Alaska NetworkInventory and Monitoring Program May 6, 2009
Logistics and Budget
• Staffing and field schedule.• Protocol development $50K.• Equipment: CTD $25K, vessel $60K
+ $120K, water sampler $25K.• Annual operations $5K.• Ocean acidification partnership with
UAF.Southeast Alaska NetworkInventory and Monitoring Program
What We’re Learning
• It is as we thought.• High interannual variability.
Southeast Alaska NetworkInventory and Monitoring Program
Southeast Alaska NetworkInventory and Monitoring Program
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Southeast Alaska NetworkInventory and Monitoring Program
Southeast Alaska NetworkInventory and Monitoring Program
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What We’re Learning
• It is as we thought.• High interannual variability.• Ecosystem coupling.• High primary production.• THIS is why people come to Glacier
Bay.Southeast Alaska NetworkInventory and Monitoring Program
Southeast Alaska NetworkInventory and Monitoring Program
Program Delivery
• 1993-2008 legacy data review/validation/roll-up.• 1993-2009 Synthesis Report.• 2009, 2010, and 2011 Annual Reports.• QA/QC’d raw data available SEAN website and
NODC.• Alaska Park Science (2010); GWS Conference
(2011).• NOAA Tides and Currents update, ocean
acidification research.• Gustavus School – tomorrow’s scientists and
citizens.
Southeast Alaska NetworkInventory and Monitoring Program
• Ocean resources and processes drive GLBA
• These resources are the core of the park
• The single most important annual event in GLBA
• Effective, wise management decisions
Why it Matters
Southeast Alaska NetworkInventory and Monitoring Program
[email protected] 907-697-2623
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