Local Observations from the Seasonal Ice Zone Observing Network (SIZONet)  View Catalog Page Entry ID
ELOKA031
Summary
This data set contains observations of sea ice, weather, and wildlife collected by Indigenous Inupiaq and Yup'ik sea ice experts in several communities along the northern and western coasts of Alaska, beginning in 2006. The product is a database of local observations spatially referenced as near or around Alaskan villages and is available via a web interface. The database was developed to serve as an interface between the two distinct knowledge systems of western science and local and traditional knowledge. It is serves as an archive and instruction tool for the collaborating hunters and their communities. It is designed be flexible enough to change in response to the evolving nature of the observations while providing a framework that allows researchers to track and compare specific climatic, environmental, and ecological features and events across geographic locations and over time.
The goal of this collaboration is to preserve and pass on local and traditional knowledge of sea ice and its use knowledge and documenting local sea ice change and how that change is affecting community and cultural activities. Arctic coastal communities have long recognized that sea ice conditions are not what they once were: the ocean is freezing later in the fall and the ice is melting earlier in the spring, shorefast ice is less stable, there is far less of the thicker multiyear ice than in the past and environmental conditions overall are less predictable. While such changes have been recorded in detail in the oral history, science and policy makers are not adept at using or accessing information from the oral tradition.
To view the observations in the database, visitors must agree to the Use Agreement and enter as a Guest. Members of the participating Alaskan communities can log in as a Registered User for more robust use of the interface.
Data Set Citation
Dataset Creator: Apangalook, L., P. Apangalook, S. John, J. Leavitt, W. Weyapuk, Jr., and other observers. Edited by H. Eicken and M. Kaufman.
Dataset Title: Local Observations from the Seasonal Ice Zone Observing Network (SIZONet)
Dataset Release Date: 2013-03-27
Dataset Release Place: Boulder, Colorado USA
Dataset Publisher: NSIDC: National Snow and Ice Data Center
Online Resource: http://nsidc.org/data/eloka031.html
Dataset DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7265/N5TB14VT
Temporal Coverage
Start Date: 2006-04-06
Location Keywords
- CONTINENT NORTH AMERICA UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ALASKA
Science Keywords
- Atmosphere Precipitation Snow
- Biological Classification Animals/Invertebrates Animals/Vertebrates
- Biological Classification Animals/Vertebrates
- Cryosphere Sea Ice
- Oceans Sea Ice
Ancillary Keywords
- Air Temperature
- Arctic char
- Arctic cisco
- Arctic cod
- Arctic fox
- Arctic hare
- Arctic Sea Ice
- Arctic tern
- Bearded seal
- Beluga whale
- Blue cod
- Bowhead whale
- Brant
- Brown bear
- Candle fish
- Caribou
- Clam
- Coastal Alaska
- Common eider
- Cormorant
- Crab
- Duck
- Eider
- FISH
- fishing boats
- Flounder
- Fur seal
- Goose
- Gray whale
- Guillemot
- Gull
- Humpback whale
- humpback whale
- Hunting
- Ice Extent
- Ice Floe
- Ice Thickness
- Killer whale
- King eider
- Leads
- Long Tailed Duck (Old squaw)
- Minke whale
- Murre
- Muskox
- Pack Ice
- Polar bear
- Precipitation
- Ptarmigan
- Raven
- Red fox
- Ribbon seal
- Ringed seal
- Salmon
- seabirds
- Sea Ice Motion
- Sea Ice Thickness
- Sea lion
- Sea otter
- Shellfish
- Smelt
- Snow bunting
- Snow goose
- Snowy owl
- Spectacled eider
- Spotted seal
- Starfish
- Steller's eider
- Subsistence Fishing
- Subsistence Hunting
- Subsistence Whaling
- Tom cod
- Traditional Hunting
- Traditional Whaling
- Trout
- Upa
- Visibility
- Visual Observations
- Walrus
- Wind Direction
- winds
- Wind Speed
- Wind Velocity
- Wolverine
- Biota
- Climatology/Meteorology/Atmosphere
- Oceans
Platform
- GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS
Instrument
- ANEMOMETERS
- THERMOMETERS
- VISUAL OBSERVATIONS
Data Set Progress
in work
Originating Center
UAK-F/GI
Data Center
National Snow and Ice Data Center
Data Center URL: http://nsidc.org
Data Center Personnel
Name: NSIDC User Services
Phone: 1 303 492-6199
Fax: 1 303 492-2468
Email: nsidc@nsidc.org
Contact Address:
- National Snow and Ice Data Center
- CIRES, 449 UCB
- University of Colorado
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA
Exchange for Local Observations and Knowledge of the Arctic
Data Center URL: http://eloka-arctic.org/
Data Center Personnel
Name: NSIDC ELOKA User Services
Phone:
Fax:
Email: info@eloka-arctic.org
Contact Address:
- National Snow and Ice Data Center
- 449 UCB
- University of Colorado at Boulder
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code:
Country: USA
Personnel
NSIDC User Services
Role: TECHNICAL CONTACT
Phone: 1 303 492-6199 x
Fax: 1 303 492-2468 x
Email: nsidc@nsidc.org
Contact Address:
- National Snow and Ice Data Center
- CIRES, 449 UCB
- University of Colorado
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA
Leonard Apangalook
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Contact Address:
- University of Alaska Fairbanks
City: Gambell
Province or State: AK
Paul Apangalook
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Contact Address:
- University of Alaska Fairbanks
Simon Bekoalok
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Contact Address:
- University of Alaska Fairbanks
City: Shaktoolik
Province or State: AK
Arnold Brower, Sr.
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Contact Address:
- University of Alaska Fairbanks
City: Barrow
Province or State: AK
Lewis Brower
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Contact Address:
- University of Alaska Fairbanks
City: Barrow
Province or State: AK
Hajo Eicken
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Contact Address:
- University of Alaska Fairbanks
- Geophysical Institute
- P.O. Box 757320
City: Fairbanks
Province or State: AK
Postal Code: 99775-7320
Country: USA
Craig George
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Contact Address:
- University of Alaska Fairbanks
City: Barrow
Province or State: AK
Richard Glenn
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Contact Address:
- University of Alaska Fairbanks
City: Barrow
Province or State: AK
Simeon John
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Contact Address:
- University of Alaska Fairbanks
City: Toksook Bay, Nelson Island
Province or State: AK
Mette Kaufman
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Email: mrkaufman@alaska.edu
Contact Address:
- University of Alaska Fairbanks
- Geophysical Institute
City: Fairbanks
Province or State: AK
Country: USA
Joe Leavitt
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Contact Address:
- University of Alaska Fairbanks
City: Barrow
Province or State: AK
Clara Mae Sagoonick
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Contact Address:
- University of Alaska Fairbanks
City: Shaktoolik
Province or State: AK
Ken Stenek
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Contact Address:
- University of Alaska Fairbanks
City: Shishmaref
Province or State: AK
Winton Weyapuk, Jr.
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Contact Address:
- University of Alaska Fairbanks
City: Barrow
Province or State: AK
Related URL
VIEW RELATED INFORMATION
SIZONet Project Web Site
Metadata Name and Version
Metadata Name: CEOS IDN DIF
Metadata Version: 9.7
Creation and Review Dates
DIF Creation Date: 2013-03-27
Last DIF Revision Date: 2013-04-25
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