Personnel with the National Park Service’s (NPS) Inventory and Monitoring Program have been busy planning new locations where long-term climate stations will be deployed in the Western Arctic Park Lands. The goal of this network is to establish baseline weather measurements such as air temperature, wind speed, and soil temperature so that with time, long-term changes may be observed. Potential sites in the Bering Land Bridge National Preserve are shown below.

We've redesigned the Seward Peninsula website to include up-to-date maps and real-time plotting of data. These include sites at Anvil Mountain and Skookum Pass. Take a look; if you use this data, please let us know. We are always seeking support for the network and testimony from users helps a lot. Access the website here.
 

Thanks to all who came to our roundtable discussion in Nome on April 8, 2009 and helped make it a success. This meeting was held in conjunction with the Western Alaska Interdisciplinary Science Conference and Forum (WAISC). Many interesting presentations were made at WAISC and we encourage you to check out their website.

We continue to elicit feedback on our BSRC website; simply email info@beringstraitresearch.org. There are also opportunities to join our expert directory or to create a project profiles that communicates your research or local knowledge. Check out the links above. Welcome to the BSRC community!

We want to welcome you to a round table discussion on the Bering Strait Research Consortium. So far this BSRC group is simply a voluntary group of researchers who are interested in better coordinating data and research resources related to natural and social sciences, cultural, health and other types of research in the Bering Strait Region, as well as improving the communication of research results to the public.