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Long-term ecological monitoring in Southeast Alaska national parks
Chris SergeantNational Park Service
UAF Fisheries Juneau Seminar SeriesOctober 12, 2012
“Natural resource management should strive to retain critical types and ranges of natural variation in ecosystems.”
- Holling & Meffe 1996
Southeast Alaska NetworkInventory and Monitoring Program
Southeast Alaska NetworkInventory and Monitoring Program
Image from Gulf of Alaska Ecosystem Monitoring and Research Project
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not
simpler.”- Albert Einstein
Southeast Alaska NetworkInventory and Monitoring Program
Data from www.jisao.washington.edu
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Isaak et al. 2011
Southeast Alaska NetworkInventory and Monitoring Program
“…leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations.”
- Organic Act of 1916
SEAN core program“Vital Signs”
1. Airborne Contaminants
2. Marine Predators
3. Weather and Climate
4. Streamflow
5. Freshwater Water Quality
6. Oceanography
7. Marine Contaminants
8. Freshwater Contaminants
9. Intertidal Communities
10.Landform and Landcover
11.Kittlitz’s Murrelets
12.Glacial Dynamics
Two rules:1) Monitor rigorously and sustainably
2) Serve high-quality data publicly
Southeast Alaska NetworkInventory and Monitoring Program
Southeast Alaska NetworkInventory and Monitoring Program
Southeast Alaska NetworkInventory and Monitoring Program
Project Leader
Klondike LeadGlacier Bay
LeadSitka Lead
Data Manager
Program Manager
Validation, Certification
Maintenance, Calibration, Data Collection
Data flow,
training,
supplie
s,
reporti
ng
Admin, budget, tech. oversight
Water Quality
Southeast Alaska NetworkInventory and Monitoring Program
Southeast Alaska NetworkInventory and Monitoring Program
1/3 funding dedicated to data management, analysis, and reporting!
Southeast Alaska NetworkInventory and Monitoring Program
Southeast Alaska NetworkInventory and Monitoring Program
Southeast Alaska NetworkInventory and Monitoring Program
Southeast Alaska NetworkInventory and Monitoring Program
FQ_A
FQ_BFQ_G
Southeast Alaska NetworkInventory and Monitoring Program
Southeast Alaska NetworkInventory and Monitoring Program
Southeast Alaska NetworkInventory and Monitoring Program
Southeast Alaska NetworkInventory and Monitoring Program
Southeast Alaska NetworkInventory and Monitoring Program
Southeast Alaska NetworkInventory and Monitoring Program
Southeast Alaska NetworkInventory and Monitoring Program
Oceanography
From 1993 to the present:
Temperature, salinity, turbidity, PAR, fluorescence
NPS Photo
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Danielson 2012
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Kittlitz’s murrelets
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Annual abundance estimates
Hoekman et al. 2011
Southeast Alaska NetworkInventory and Monitoring Program
M. Humling/USFS
Contaminants
Southeast Alaska NetworkInventory and Monitoring Program
Heavy metalsbyproduct of fossil fuel and waste burning, mining and ore processing, chemical production, and agriculture
Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons found in coal, crude oil, and gasoline and other derived products
Persistent Organic Pollutants human-produced organic substances such as DDT and PCBs
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NPS Photo
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OR, WI, & FL Sherman Cr. SEAN
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rcury (n
g/g
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Mayflies
Nagorski et al. 2011
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Watershed age (years)
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Total m
ercury (ng/g)
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MediumOld
Age-0 coho salmon
watershed age = methylmercury
Nagorski et al. 2011
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Water quality
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(Adapted from Olden and Naiman 2010)
Southeast Alaska NetworkInventory and Monitoring Program
May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov
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12 Indian
May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov
Salmon
May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov
Taiya
GlacialGroundSurface
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J. Armstrong
Jul Aug Sep Oct 6.4
6.6
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Indian RiverpH
Rainfall
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Climate change
Management
Drivers of productivity
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