DATA Archive

SOUTHEAST ALASKA COASTAL FISH HABITAT DATA AND INFORMATION ARCHIVE

Southeast Alaska Coastal Fish Habitat Regional Data Repositories and Resource Providers:

University of Alaska GIS Library (Coastal Resource Management Module) http://seakgis.alaska.edu/projects/coastal-resource-module.html

ShoreZone- Alaska Coastal Inventory and Mapping Project http://alaskafisheries.noaa.gov/shorezone/default.htm

Southeast Alaska Inventory and Monitoring Network – National Park Service http://science.nature.nps.gov/im/units/sean/

Southeast Alaska Long-term Monitoring Network – SALMoN http://www.seakecology.org/

Alaska Stream Team – Biological Monitoring Program Alaska http://astdatabase.uaa.alaska.edu/

Department of Fish and Game’s Alaska fish passage inventory and assessment database http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=fishpassage.database

Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s Anadromous Waters Catalog http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/sf/SARR/AWC/

Coastal Cutthroat Trout Range-wide Assessment http://www.coastalcutthroattrout.org/

Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation’s – Alaska’s Clean Water Actions (Impaired water bodies/waters to watch) http://dec.alaska.gov/water/acwa/acwa_index.htm

Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation – Water Quality Reports Inventory http://dec.alaska.gov/water/wqsar/reports.html

Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation – Water Quality Mapper http://www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?webmap=f7e8ca8c14fe4520b9e2e1498e3cdee3&extent=-180,53.8136,-116.9167,71.3641;#!

Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation – AKMAP Coastal Survey of Southeast Alaska – 2004 http://dec.alaska.gov/water/wqsar/monitoring/2004Southeast.htm

2004 Southeast Alaska Coastal Survey Environmental Status
Development of a Microinvertebrate Biological Assessment Index for Alexander Archipelago Streams (2005) http://dec.alaska.gov/water/wqsar/pdfs/Reports/Southeast-Coastal-Survey-2004-ADEC.pdf

NOAA’s Essential Fish Habitat Mapper http://www.habitat.noaa.gov/protection/efh/habitatmapper.html

NOAA’s Nearshore Fish Atlas of Alaska https://alaskafisheries.noaa.gov/habitat/fishatlas/

Alaska Coastal Rainforest Center http://acrc.alaska.edu/

NOAA’s Marine Debris Program
Tsunami Debris and other Marine Debris in Alaska http://marinedebris.noaa.gov/our-work

Alaska Ocean Observing System (Monitoring buoys, Ocean Acidification) https://portal.aoos.org/

Ocean Acidification Data (Southeast Alaska, SEATOR, Sitka Tribe) http://www.seator.org/ocean-acidification

Alaska Ocean Acidification Monitoring Network https://www.aoos.org/alaska-ocean-acidification-network/

Southeast Alaska Tribal Ocean Research (and Monitoring) http://www.seator.org/

Regional Habitat Assessment and Prioritization Strategies, Resources and Publications for and relevant to Southeast Alaska:

From Salmon to Seabirds: A new Ecological Atlas for Southeast Alaska – 2016 (Audubon/The Nature Conservancy) http://ak.audubon.org/conservation/tongass-national-forest

Coastal Forests and Mountains Ecoregion Assessment for Southeast Alaska – The Nature Conservancy/Audubon Society http://www.conservationgateway.org/ConservationByGeography/NorthAmerica/UnitedStates/alaska/seak/era/cfm/Pages/CA-AKCFM.aspx

Watershed Restoration Priorities – A Strategic Plan for the Sitka Community Use Area – Sitka Conservation Society https://www.seakfhp.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/restoration_priorities_SCUA_app.pdf

Southeast Alaska’s Estuarine and Coastal Ecosystems Assessment – Katharine Miller, NMFS Alaska Fisheries Science Center https://www.seakfhp.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Coastal-Assessment_NMFS-presentation-3-2013.pdf

An Estuarine Habitat Classification for a Complex Fjordal Island Archipelago – Schoch et al. 2013 Estuaries and Coasts https://www.seakfhp.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Schoch_etal_2013_Estuaries_and_Coasts.pdf

A Conservation Action Plan for Estuarine Ecosystems of Southeastern Alaska – The Nature Conservancy, 2011 https://www.seakfhp.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/estuaries_cap_final_03_30_11.pdf

Mapping Human Activities and Designing an Index of Cumulative Use within Estuarine and Nearshore Marine Ecosystems in Southeast Alaska – The Nature Conservancy, 2011 https://www.seakfhp.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Coastal-GIS_Human_Activites_Final_Report.pdf

Atlas of Nearshore Fishes of Alaska: A Synthesis of Marine Surveys from 1998 to 2011 – Johnson et al. 2011 NOAA Technical Report
ShoreZone Summary for Southeast Alaska http://www.afsc.noaa.gov/techmemos/nmfs-afsc-239.htm

EPA Region 5 – Wetlands Supplement: Incorporating Wetlands into Watershed Planning http://www.epa.gov/region5/agriculture/pdfs/wetlands-in-watershed-planning-supplement-region-5-201302.pdf?utm_source=Water+Headlines+for+Week+of+September+10&utm_campaign=Water+Headlines+Sept+11&utm_medium=email

A Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment for Aquatic Resources in the Tongass National Forest (EcoAdapt, November 2014) http://ecoadapt.org/data/documents/EcoAdapt_Tongass_VulnerabilityAssessmentReport_FINAL_22Nov214_smallres.pdf

Icefield-to-Ocean Linkages across the Northern Pacific Coastal Temperate Rainforest Ecosystem (BioScience, March 2015) http://bioscience.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2015/03/12/biosci.biv027.full.pdf

Protecting Habitat for Coastal Cutthroat Trout through Reservations of Water in Southeast Alaska (Jason Hass, June 2016 WNTI Special Report) https://www.seakfhp.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/SEAK-Water-Reservations-for-CCT-habitat-final-report-06282016.pdf

National Fish Habitat Assessment for 2010

National Fish Habitat Assessment for 2015

Protected Marine Habitats in Southeast Alaska:

Conservation properties in Southeast Alaska – Estuaries (Southeast Alaska Land Trust) https://www.southeastalaskalandtrust.org/wp-content/uploads45yI789N/2014/09/Estuaries-140924-print.pdf

Dude Creek Critical Habitat Area, Gustavus,  Alaska http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=dudecreek.main

Habitat Assessment Resources and Publications for Southeast Alaska:

ShoreZone Coastal Habitat Mapping Protocol for the Gulf of Alaska, August 2008 http://alaskafisheries.noaa.gov/shorezone/goa_protocol.pdf

NOAA’s Essential Fish Habitat Programmatic Consultation for Restoration Center Program Activities in Alaska, August 2012 http://www.alaskafisheries.noaa.gov/habitat/restoration/efh_programmatic_restoration2012.pdf

Biotic Assessment Resources:

Shellfish Testing Data (SEATOR, Sitka Tribe) http://www.seator.org/Data

Other Resources
Seaweeds of Alaska

Seagrass Literature Review and Annotated Bibliography (NOAA)

Southern Southeast Alaska Sea Otter Project – Alaska Sea Grant

Global and Regional Sea Level Rise Scenarios for the United States (NOAA Technical Report NOS CO-OPS 083. Sweet et al 2017. Global and Regional Sea Level Rise Scenarios for the United States. 75 pp.)