Title
Coastal Lagoon Monitoring in the Southern Chukchi Sea National Park Units: Fieldwork and Sampling Summary 2015-2017
Author(s)
Beatrice Smith; Martin Robards; Marguerite Tibbles
Published
2019
Abstract
Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) worked with the National Park Service from 2012 to design and implement the Coastal Lagoon Vital Sign component of the Inventory and Monitoring Program. This program is intended to establish biotic and abiotic reference conditions for assessing long-term changes in the coastal lagoons of Cape Krusenstern National Monument and Bering Land Bridge National Preserve. The Vital Signs program focuses on monitoring both the structure and ecological function of lagoons, as well as the fish resources used for subsistence by coastal communities. A standardized Vital Sign Protocol has now been completed for these coastal lagoons (Jones and Apsens, 2017), informed by work initiated in the early 2000s (Reynolds, 2012), followed by our four years of field efforts during 2012 (reported in Robards, 2014), 2015, 2016, and 2017 (reported here).

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