Human use and development data used in the creation of Audubon Alaska's Ecological Atlas of the Bering, Chukchi, and Beaufort Seas

• Main Author: Audubon Alaska
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Research Workspace 2019
• Subjects: Oceana; Audubon Alaska; Audubon; territorial park; state park; special management area; research natural area; national preserve; marine protected area; migratory bird sanctuary; area of critical environmental concern; zapovednik; pamyatnik prirody; regional zakaznik; federal zakaznik; protected areas with sustainable use of natural resources; national wildlife refugee; national monument; national park; wilderness area; strict nature reserve; conservation areas; federal subsistence region; annual subsistence harvest; Kawerak region; subsistence community; whales; walruses; seals; polar bears; marine invertebrates; fishes; birds and eggs; susbsistence havest areas; Alaska state waters; commercial fish landing port; average annual observed catch; observed catch; Steller sea lion protection measures; no bottom contact gear; commercial fishing; commercial fishing restrictions; trawling restrictions; trawling; restrictions; conservation area; conservation; fisheries management; fisheries; fisheries management and conservation areas; ATBA; areas to be avoided; recommended route; USCG recommended route; vessel traffic patterns; United States Coast Guard facilities; Coast Guard; USCG; wreck sites; fishing; tug; towing; cargo; tanker; vessel type; vessel traffic; vessel density; relative depth to acoustic basement; petroleum potential; onshore wells; offshore wells; sediment basins; relinquished lease; expired lease; active lease; development; petroleum exporation; petroleum exploration and development; roads; ferry terminals; airports; powerplants; energy; transportation; transportation and energy infrastructure; Chukotka; Russia; EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS > CONSERVATION; EARTH SCIENCE > AGRICULTURE > ANIMAL SCIENCE > ANIMAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > AQUATIC SCIENCES > FISHERIES; EARTH SCIENCE > SOLID EARTH > EARTH GASES/LIQUIDS > PETROLEUM; EARTH SCIENCE > SOLID EARTH > EARTH GASES/LIQUIDS > PETROLEUM > PETROLEUM VERTICAL/GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > ECONOMIC RESOURCES > ENERGY PRODUCTION/USE > PETROLEUM PRODUCTION/USE; EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > INFRASTRUCTURE; EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > ECONOMIC RESOURCES > ENERGY PRODUCTION/USE; EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > INFRASTRUCTURE > TRANSPORTATION; EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > MARINE ECOSYSTEMS; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS; CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > CANADA; OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN; CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > UNITED STATES OF AMERICA > ALASKA; GEOGRAPHIC REGION > ARCTIC; OCEAN > ARCTIC OCEAN; OCEAN > ARCTIC OCEAN > BEAUFORT SEA; OCEAN > ARCTIC OCEAN > CHUKCHI SEA; OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN > BERING SEA; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Bering Sea; Canada; Chukchi Sea; Pacific; Beaufort Sea; Chukchi; Alaska; walrus*
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/10.24431_rw1k323_201952104213

This dataset contains a variety of spatial data types describing human use and development in and around the Bering, Chukchi, and Beaufort Seas. These data describe display transportation and energy infrastructure locations and capacities, petroleum exploration and development locations and lease statuses, vessel traffic density and vessel/use types, fisheries management and conservation areas and use restrictions, and reported subsistence harvests for communities and industries that use and occupy the Bering, Chukchi, and Beaufort Seas. These data were used by staff at Audubon Alaska and Oceana to create the 27 maps displayed in 'Chapter 7 - Human Uses', in the 'Ecological Atlas of the Bering, Chukchi, and Beaufort Seas'. This dataset contains four zipped archives of spatial data and metadata and two summary files. The zip files are: 1. ArcticMarine2017_Public_Ch7HumanUses.gdb.zip, containing an ESRI filegeodatabase compiled by Audubon Alaska staff and used to generate the maps in chapter 7 of the Ecological Atlas, 2. ch7_vector-4326.zip, containing csv formatted vector data files along with metadata extracted from the geodatabase, 3. ch7_raster.zip, containing geotiff formatted raster data and metadata used in the maps in the Atlas but not included in the geodatabase, and 4. ch7_shapefiles.zip, containing updated versions of some of the vector or raster layers in the geodatabase, as delivered separately by Audubon, and without individual metadata records. The summary files are: 1. audubon_EABCBS_ch7_human_uses_manifest.txt, listing all file path, size, and md5sum hash value for each file in each of the zip files, 2. audubon_EABCBS_ch7_human_uses_README.txt, providing basic, human-readable metadata about the dataset, 3. audubon_EABCBS_ch7_human_uses_data_sources.pdf, listing the data sources used for each map in chapter 6 of the atlas, and 4. audubon_EABCBS_data_sources_appendix.csv, listing the sources used for each spatial synthesis data product created by Audubon Alaska, used to generate the maps in chapter 6, and listed in the data sources pdf. These files contain only the data used in the Atlas and deemed appropriate for public release. Certain data deemed sensitive were not included in these publicly available data archives.