Coastal Landform Change in the National Park Service Inventory and Monitoring Network

The objective of this agreement is to support a University of Alaska Fairbanks student working to quantify and understand coastal landform changes that are occurring in the National Park Service units of the Arctic Inventory and Monitoring Network. The public purposes served by this agreement include: increased understanding and ability to predict coastal changes that will affect subsistence resource use, infrastructure and communities in and near the NPS units; educating University of Alaska students through research opportunities, advising and financial support; and education and outreach to the public through interpretive products. STATEMENT OF JOINT OBJECTIVES/PROJECT MANAGEMENT PLAN In the remaining years of the agreement, the University of Alaska Fairbanks will add the following: 5. Provide a field assistant to assist the student in 2015 fieldwork 6. Perform radiocarbon dating of selected samples collected in 2015 and incorporate the results into the final report 7. Prepare thesis chapter, peer-reviewed article, or manuscript for the coastal erosion chapter of the NPS Natural Resources Condition Assessment, by 1 Oct 2016. 8. Acquire high-resolution DEM for selected portion of the ARCN coastline. Provide the raw photography, DEM, and photo locations to NPS. 9. Analyze selected key sites near the ARCN coastline in detail for rates of change and processes, incorporating high-resolution topographic data and imagery with close time spacing (one or few years bet...
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