Conference: Leveraging a Statewide Database for better Collaboration and Coordination of Observing efforts Across Alaska: A Stream Temperature Training in Interior Alaska

淡水的温度对鱼类的生长、分布和产量都很重要。阿拉斯加有许多不同类型的淡水栖息地，商业和文化上重要的渔业都依赖于冷水。然而，直到最近，全州范围内的淡水温度数据很难获取和使用。最近开发了一个公共数据库（AKTEMP），允许人们上传和下载全州的淡水温度数据，以帮助研究、保护和管理行动。为了帮助人们使用这个数据库，费尔班克斯将为位于阿拉斯加内陆的组织举办一个培训讲习班，那里的温度数据很少。外联工作将包括有针对性地邀请该地区的部落组织、联邦机构和州机构。培训将涵盖如何收集流温度数据以及如何使用AKTEMP数据库，在现场和课堂上都有时间。温度培训将促进建立一个新的温度观测网络，这将增加阿拉斯加内陆数据收集者之间的合作和协调。其中一个目标是改善阿拉斯加的淡水温度协调工作。这项工作的主要预期结果是阿拉斯加内陆淡水温度信息的大幅增加，填补了一个重要的数据空白，该地区的重要渔业目前受到淡水栖息地变暖的威胁。河流温度数据对于理解气候变化对水生生态系统的影响至关重要，也是河流温度和鲑鱼生长模型的重要输入。随着其他数据类型（如水文、气候和地形数据集）变得越来越广泛，经验河流温度数据集仍然是参数化和验证阿拉斯加许多地区河流温度模型的关键数据缺口。阿拉斯加内陆的育空-库斯科温盆地经历了变暖，威胁到为该地区阿拉斯加土著社区提供食物资源的奇努克和鲑鱼种群。这次培训将召集包括部落组织代表、联邦和州机构代表在内的有关各方，从阿拉斯加内陆地区学习如何选择地点和部署数据记录器，执行推荐的质量保证步骤，下载和分析河流温度数据，并使用新的全州河流温度数据库AKTEMP。这次培训将在阿拉斯加内陆形成一个新的温度观测网络，填补我们对北极地区河流温度了解的关键数据空白，并使阿拉斯加偏远地区的当地组织能够收集河流温度数据。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The temperature of freshwater is important for fish growth, distribution, and productivity. Alaska has many different types of freshwater habitats and commercially and culturally important fisheries that depend on cold water. However, until recently, state-wide freshwater temperature data was challenging to access and use. A public database (AKTEMP) was recently developed to allow people to upload and download freshwater temperature data across the state to help inform research, conservation, and management actions. To help people use this database, a training workshop in Fairbanks will be held for organizations based in Interior Alaska, where temperature datasets are sparse. Outreach efforts will include targeted invitations to Tribal organizations, federal agencies, and state agencies in the region. The training will cover how to collect stream temperature data and how to use the AKTEMP database, with time in both the field and the classroom. The temperature training will facilitate the creation of a new temperature observing network that will increase collaboration and coordination among data collectors in Interior Alaska. One goal is improved freshwater temperature coordination efforts in Alaska. The major anticipated outcome from this work is a substantial increase in freshwater temperature information from Interior Alaska, filling a crucial data gap in an area with culturally important fisheries currently threatened by warming freshwater habitats.Stream temperature data are critical for understanding the impacts of climate change in aquatic ecosystems and is an important input to stream temperature and salmon growth models. As other data types, such as hydrographic, climatic, and topographic datasets, have become more widely available, empirical stream temperature datasets remain a crucial data gap to parameterize and validate stream temperature models in many parts of Alaska. The Yukon-Kuskokwim basins of Interior Alaska have experienced warming that threatens Chinook and chum salmon populations that provide food resources for Alaska Native communities in the region. This training will convene interested parties, including representatives from Tribal organizations, and federal and state agencies, from across Interior Alaska to learn how to select sites and deploy data loggers, perform recommended quality assurance steps, download, and analyze stream temperature data, and use the new statewide stream temperature database, AKTEMP. This training will result in formation of a new temperature observing network in Interior Alaska, filling a crucial data gap in our understanding of stream temperatures in this region of the Arctic and empowering collection of stream temperature data by local organizations in remote regions of Alaska.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.