This project, funded by the State of Alaska through the Department of
Natural Resources (AKDNR), ended in July of 2010. The purpose of the
project was to investigate the hydrology in the coastal plain region
from the Sagavanirktok River toward Bullen Point. This is a data-sparse region;
issues such as breakup timing, prediction of flood events, estimating
potential recharge and impacts of water use from lakes and gravel pits
require a better understanding of water resources in the area.
It is also important to develop an understanding of how the related
watersheds function relative to the Kuparuk River Watershed, which has
the longest-term data on the North Slope and has the greatest potential
for serving as an index watershed. Developing this understanding will help
better define the risks associated with hydrologic variability and climate
change impacts in areas with no historical hydrologic information.
GWS helped design, install, and maintain the data networks. This included
establishing and up keeping a telemetry network as well as managing online data
reporting.
All stations were decommission following project completion and are no
longer reporting online real time data. However, archived station information
can be found
here.