This is a nation-wide collaborative program, supported by the USGS Ecosystems Mission Area, through which USGS and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service staff address priority research needs identified by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. On this page, we highlight research taking place in Alaska as part of this program.
Return to Ecosystems >> Collaborative Science for Priority Information Needs
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service priorities change annually through this program. Results of past studies can be found under Data and Tools and Publications on this page.
For 2023-2024, the USGS Alaska Science Center is focusing on the following science studies and co-production projects with Alaska Native groups and communities:
- Assessing the demographic trend of the Pacific walrus in a changing Arctic ecosystem
- Pacific walrus close-kin mark-recapture preliminary model
- Continued population declines of a rare songbird endemic to the Bering Sea region of Alaska, the McKay's Bunting
- Developing partnerships to guide research, conservation, and co-stewardship of the tevatevaaq (bar-tailed godwit)
- Rusting river impacts to food security, drinking water, and ecological systems: co-designing a water quality monitoring program with Northwest Alaska communities to assess impacts from permafrost thaw on aquatic systems
- An integrated approach for co-design of sea otter population assessments
- Toward co-production of knowledge about Pacific salmon populations and habitats in the Koyukuk, Nowitna & Innoko National Wildlife Refuges and Gana-A’Yoo managed freshwaters
- Investigating opportunities for co-Production of research on the Porcupine Caribou Herd
- Pacific Walrus population dynamics: towards co-production of science to aid co-management decisions
Below are other science projects associated with this project.
Below are data or web applications associated with this project.
Below are multimedia items associated with this project.
Below are publications associated with this project.
Identifying reliable indicators of fitness in polar bears
After-hatch and hatch year Buff-breasted Sandpipers (Calidris subruficollis) can be sexed accurately using morphometric measures
Further information on the avifauna of St. Matthew and Hall Islands, Bering Sea, Alaska
Use of genetic mark-recapture to estimate breeding site fidelity and philopatry in a threatened sea duck population, Alaska-breeding Steller’s eiders
Catalogue of polar bear (Ursus maritimus) maternal den locations in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas and nearby areas, 1910–2018
The clock keeps ticking: Circadian rhythms of free-ranging polar bears
Factors promoting the recolonization of Oahu, Hawaii, by Bristle-thighed Curlews
Integrated population modeling provides the first empirical estimates of vital rates and abundance for polar bears in the Chukchi Sea
Demography of the Pacific walrus (Odobenus rosmarus divergens) in a changing Arctic
Spring fasting behavior in a marine apex predator provides an index of ecosystem productivity
Declining survival of black brant from subarctic and arctic breeding areas
Biogeography of boreal passerine range dynamics in western North America: past, present, and future
Below are news stories associated with this project.
This is a nation-wide collaborative program, supported by the USGS Ecosystems Mission Area, through which USGS and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service staff address priority research needs identified by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. On this page, we highlight research taking place in Alaska as part of this program.
Return to Ecosystems >> Collaborative Science for Priority Information Needs
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service priorities change annually through this program. Results of past studies can be found under Data and Tools and Publications on this page.
For 2023-2024, the USGS Alaska Science Center is focusing on the following science studies and co-production projects with Alaska Native groups and communities:
- Assessing the demographic trend of the Pacific walrus in a changing Arctic ecosystem
- Pacific walrus close-kin mark-recapture preliminary model
- Continued population declines of a rare songbird endemic to the Bering Sea region of Alaska, the McKay's Bunting
- Developing partnerships to guide research, conservation, and co-stewardship of the tevatevaaq (bar-tailed godwit)
- Rusting river impacts to food security, drinking water, and ecological systems: co-designing a water quality monitoring program with Northwest Alaska communities to assess impacts from permafrost thaw on aquatic systems
- An integrated approach for co-design of sea otter population assessments
- Toward co-production of knowledge about Pacific salmon populations and habitats in the Koyukuk, Nowitna & Innoko National Wildlife Refuges and Gana-A’Yoo managed freshwaters
- Investigating opportunities for co-Production of research on the Porcupine Caribou Herd
- Pacific Walrus population dynamics: towards co-production of science to aid co-management decisions
Below are other science projects associated with this project.
Below are data or web applications associated with this project.
Below are multimedia items associated with this project.
Below are publications associated with this project.
Identifying reliable indicators of fitness in polar bears
After-hatch and hatch year Buff-breasted Sandpipers (Calidris subruficollis) can be sexed accurately using morphometric measures
Further information on the avifauna of St. Matthew and Hall Islands, Bering Sea, Alaska
Use of genetic mark-recapture to estimate breeding site fidelity and philopatry in a threatened sea duck population, Alaska-breeding Steller’s eiders
Catalogue of polar bear (Ursus maritimus) maternal den locations in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas and nearby areas, 1910–2018
The clock keeps ticking: Circadian rhythms of free-ranging polar bears
Factors promoting the recolonization of Oahu, Hawaii, by Bristle-thighed Curlews
Integrated population modeling provides the first empirical estimates of vital rates and abundance for polar bears in the Chukchi Sea
Demography of the Pacific walrus (Odobenus rosmarus divergens) in a changing Arctic
Spring fasting behavior in a marine apex predator provides an index of ecosystem productivity
Declining survival of black brant from subarctic and arctic breeding areas
Biogeography of boreal passerine range dynamics in western North America: past, present, and future
Below are news stories associated with this project.