Alaska Hydrology Program

Project Details

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• Project ID:

  1235

• Nickname/Abbreviation:

  Hydrogeology

• Parent Project:

  Hydrology & Surficial Geology Section projects

• Status:

  Ongoing

• Description:

  A statewide program to lead research efforts that focus on understanding groundwater-related issues impacting resource development and communities. Current and ongoing projects 1) ASTAR Hydrology of the planned road corridor 2) The use of seismic tools to detect permafrost degradation and landslides 3) Ice wedge degradation effects on North Slope hydrology, related to increased river runoff 4) Frozen debris lobe research.

• Project Date(s):

  2013 - present

• Primary Contact:

  Hubbard, Trent D.

• DGGS section:

  Hydrology and Surficial Geology

• Alternate Url:

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• Project Participants:

• Active Related Sub-Projects:

  • • Dalton Highway frozen debris lobes - (2013)
  • • Goldstream Valley hydrogeology - (2016)
  • • Fish Creek watershed - (2016)
  • • North Slope shrubs expansion - (2016)

• Completed/Inactive Related Sub-Projects:

  • • Pilgrim Hot Springs hydrology - (2016)

Publications

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RDF 2023-21

Germann, J.T., Daanen, R.P., Stokes, T.B., and Wikstrom Jones, K.M., 2024, Installation of environmental and hydrological monitoring stations-Utqiagvik-Wainwright-Atqasuk region, Alaska, August 2022: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Raw Data File 2023-21, 4 p. https://doi.org/10.14509/31044

IC 87

Daanen, R.P., 2020, Naturally occurring holes in ice: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Information Circular 87, 2 p. https://doi.org/10.14509/30420

IC 71

Athey, J.E., and Daanen, R.P., 2018, Naturally occurring arsenic in interior Alaska groundwater: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Information Circular 71, 2 p. https://doi.org/10.14509/30094

IC 69

Athey, J.E., Daanen, R.P., and Hendricks, K.A., 2018, Naturally occurring arsenic in Alaska groundwater: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Information Circular 69, 2 p. https://doi.org/10.14509/30060

PIR 2000-3

Vohden, Jim, 2000, Technical review of the September 1999 groundwater disturbance near Ester, Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Preliminary Interpretive Report 2000-3, 68 p. https://doi.org/10.14509/2666

Posters and Presentations

Daanen, R.P., 2017

Daanen, R.P., 2017, Cold regions hydrology: Developments and simulations in WaSiM (presentation): Third WaSiM User Conference, Munich, Germany, October 18-19, 2017.: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys, 21 p. https://doi.org/10.14509/29823

Daanen, R.P. and others, 2016

Daanen, R.P., Emond, A.M., Liljedahl, A.K., Walter Anthony, Katey, Barnes, D.L., Romanovsky, Vladimir, and Graham, G.R.C., 2016, Use of airborne electromagnetic geophysical survey to map discontinuous permafrost in Goldstream Valley (poster): American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, December 12-16, 2016.: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys, 1 sheet. https://doi.org/10.14509/29814

Daanen, R.P. and others, 2016

Daanen, R.P., Emond, A.M., Cristobal, Jordi, Minsley, B.J., Prakash, Anupma, Holdmann, Gwen, Liljedahl, A.K., Walter Anthony, Katey, Romanovsky, V.E., and Barnes, D.L., 2016, Permafrost remote sensing through airborne electromagnetic geophysics and thermal anomalies (presentation): 14th International Circumpolar Remote Sensing Symposium, Homer, Alaska, September 12-16, 2016: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys, 30 p. https://doi.org/10.14509/29822

Daanen, R.P. and others, 2015

Daanen, R.P., Darrow, M.M., and Hubbard, T.D., 2015, Influence of catchment properties on stability of frozen debris lobes (presentation): Cordilleran Section of the Geological Society of America 111th Annual Meeting, Anchorage, Alaska, May 11-13, 2015: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys, 21 p. https://doi.org/10.14509/29815

Annual Reports

AR 2014-C

DGGS Staff, 2015, Engineering Geology FY15 project descriptions, in DGGS Staff, Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Annual Report 2014: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Annual Report 2014-C, p. 52-67. https://doi.org/10.14509/29182

AR 2013-C

DGGS Staff, 2014, Engineering Geology FY14 project descriptions, in DGGS Staff, Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Annual Report 2013: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Annual Report 2013-C, p. 53-65. https://doi.org/10.14509/27003