The Arctic Geobotanical Atlas (AGA) consists of a hierarchy of maps and supporting information from the circumpolar scale down to maps of 1 m2 plots. It includes a diversity of geobotanical themes (geology, topography, landforms, surficial geomorphology, soils, and vegetation) focused at Toolik Lake and Imnavait Creek, Alaska, but also covers the Kuparuk River Basin, northern Alaska, Arctic Alaska, and the Circumpolar Arctic. The maps were developed during the course of several Component Projects. The Maps section includes the hierarchy of maps which can be viewed by a variety of means (PDF, download of the GIS databases, SwathViewer, or GINA Map Server).
Contact Information:
Alaska Geobotany Center
Institute of Arctic Biology
University of Alaska Fairbanks
PO Box 757000
Fairbanks, AK 99775-7000
Telephone: 1.907.474.2459
Fax: 1.907.474.6967
Email: fnemb@uaf.edu
Credits
A great many people have played a role in developing the maps for this site. Special acknowledgement goes to Nancy Auerbach at the University of Colorado, and Julie Knudson, now at Colorado State University, who developed earlier versions of the web site. The primary work for this site was accomplished by Donald A. (Skip) Walker, project manager; Hilmar Maier, GIS manager at the Alaska Geobotany Center; Edie Barbour, web-site developer; Scott Vockeroth, bibliography database; Cortney Pylant, photo database; and Martha Raynolds, the primary mapper for the Circumpolar Arctic Vegetation Map and the Alaska Arctic Tundra Vegetation Map.
The site was developed at the Alaska Geobotany Center, Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, with funding from the National Science Foundation Grant ARC-0425517. It was developed in collaboration with:
- Toolik Lake Field Station GIS
- Andrew Balser, GIS Manager
- Lael Rogan, Analyst
- Geographic Information Network of Alaska
- Buck Sharpton, Director
- Tom Heinrichs, Technical Services Manager
- Jason Grimes, Research and Web Programmer
- Dan Stahlke, Research and Web Programmer
- EarthSLOT in
the Water and Environmental Research Center at UAF
- Matt Nolan, Associate Professor
- Peter Prokein, GIS Consultant
The maps in the Atlas were produced by Donald A. (Skip) Walker and numerous colleagues with funding from a variety of sources:
- Funds for the Toolik Lake maps came from the Arctic Long-Term Ecological Research project at Toolik Lake
- The maps at Imnavait Creek were developed under a Department of Energy Grant as part of the R4D project
- Several maps along the Dalton Highway and elsewhere on the Arctic Slope were funded under the NSF Arctic System Science Land Atmosphere Ice Interactions Flux and ATLAS (Arctic Transitions in the Land Atmosphere System) projects (OPP-9908829) and the NSF Biocomplexity in the Environment project (OPP-0120736)
- Maps of the Prudhoe Bay region were developed as part of the Prudhoe Bay Geobotanical Atlas, funded mainly by the U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory. The project was initiated at the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research at the University of Colorado
Chronology of Website Development
The site will be developed in three stages:
- 2005: Basic structure of the web site, and inclusion of the circumpolar and Arctic Alaska data sets
- 2006-2007: The hierarchy of data sets for the Kuparuk River basin
- Future funding: The Prudhoe Bay region and other map data sets.
Explanation of Color Coded Links
The AGA logo, in the upper left hand corner of each page, is a link back to the home page
Each section has a unique color:
- Home
- Component Projects
- Maps and Imagery
- Photo Library
- Supporting Data
- Bibliography
- Glossary
When there is a link to another section, it will be highlighted in the color of the other section. For example, a link in Component Projects that goes to Maps and Supporting Data will be in blue. Bibliography links are a little different, in that they will open a new page. Offsite links, in bright blue, will take you out of the Arctic Geobotanical Atlas.
Funding Agencies and Key Collaborators
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Standards
This site conforms to HTML 4.01 Transitional W3C standards, and should be viewed with a standards-compliant browser. This web site meets the Priority 1 and Priority 2 W3C Checkpoints for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0.
Disclaimer:
Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in the material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation or any other organization.
Copyright:
Copyright © 2007 Alaska Geobotany Center. Materials contained on this web site are copyright protected under the provisions of a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License. Materials may be freely downloaded, reprinted and redistributed for non-commercial use, unless credited to another source. Reproduction and redistribution of the materials on this web site, including derivative works, shall give credit to the Alaska Geobotany Center and remain subject to the above license. Any web pages that use this material shall contain a link pointing to the Alaska Geobotany Center home page (http://www.geobotany.uaf.edu/).