Orthomosaic Image and Digital Surface Model for Upper Nome River (MP31) Beaver Ponds, Seward Peninsula, Alaska, 04 August 2021 ...

• Main Authors: Jones, Benjamin, Tape, Kenneth
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: NSF Arctic Data Center 2023
• Subjects: arctic; beavers; alaska; tundra; pond; stream; permafrost; thermokarst; drone; Arctic; Beaver Ponds; Emergence of beavers as ecosystem engineers in the New Arctic; Nome; Seward Peninsula; Thermokarst; Tundra; Alaska
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.18739/a21z41v3q; https://arcticdata.io/catalog/view/doi:10.18739/A21Z41V3Q

Emergence of beavers as ecosystem engineers in the New Arctic project focuses on establishing field sites at tundra beaver ponds to study the implications of beaver engineering on hydrology and permafrost. Drones are being used to collect baseline data and track beaver dam building and pond evolutio...