About the TAGA

Contact Information:

Alaska Geobotany Center
Institute of Arctic Biology
University of Alaska Fairbanks
PO Box 757000
Fairbanks, AK 99775-7000
Telephone: 1.907.474.2459
Fax: 1.907.474.6967
Email: Edie Barbour

Copyright:

Copyright © 2008 Alaska Geobotany Center. Materials contained on this web site are copyright protected under the provisions of a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License. Materials may be freely downloaded, reprinted and redistributed for non-commercial use, unless credited to another source. Reproduction and redistribution of the materials on this web site, including derivative works, shall give credit to the Alaska Geobotany Center and remain subject to the above license. Any web pages that use this material shall contain a link pointing to the Alaska Geobotany Center home page (http://www.geobotany.uaf.edu/).

Credits

A great many people have played a role in developing the maps for this site. Special acknowledgement goes to Nancy Auerbach at the University of Colorado, and Julie Knudson, now at Colorado State University, who developed earlier versions of the web site. The primary work for this site was accomplished by Donald A. (Skip) Walker, project manager; Hilmar Maier, GIS manager at the Alaska Geobotany Center; Edie Barbour, web-site and database developer; Martha Raynolds, the primary mapper for the Circumpolar Arctic Vegetation Map and the Alaska Arctic Tundra Vegetation Map; additional GIS work by Tina Buxbaum, Gayle Neufeld-Horner, and Shalane Carlson; and numerous students that assisted with the bibliographic and photographic databases, including Scott Vockeroth, Cortney Pylant, Kelsey Gobroski, Stefanie Walden, and Kyoko Okano.

The site was developed at the Alaska Geobotany Center, Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, with funding from the National Science Foundation Grant ARC-0425517. It was developed in collaboration with:

• Toolik Field Station GIS
  TFS Environmental Data Center
  • Andrew Balzer, GIS Manager
  • Lael Rogan, Analyst
  • Jason Stuckey, Analyst
• Geographic Information Network of Alaska
  • Buck Sharpton, Director
  • Tom Heinrichs, Technical Services Manager
  • Jason Grimes, Research and Web Programmer
  • Dan Stahlke, Research and Web Programmer
• EarthSLOT in the Water and Environmental Research Center at UAF
  
  • Matt Nolan, Associate Professor
  • Peter Prokein, GIS Consultant

The maps in the Atlas were produced by Donald A. (Skip) Walker and numerous colleagues with funding from a variety of sources:

• Funds for the Toolik Lake maps came from the Arctic Long-Term Ecological Research project at Toolik Lake
• The maps at Imnavait Creek were developed under a Department of Energy Grant as part of the R4D project
• Several maps along the Dalton Highway and elsewhere on the Arctic Slope were funded under the NSF Arctic System Science Land Atmosphere Ice Interactions Flux and ATLAS (Arctic Transitions in the Land Atmosphere System) projects (OPP-9908829) and the NSF Biocomplexity in the Environment project (OPP-0120736)
• Maps of the Prudhoe Bay region were developed as part of the Prudhoe Bay Geobotanical Atlas, funded mainly by the U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory. The project was initiated at the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research at the University of Colorado

Funding Agencies and Key Collaborators

National Science Foundation	Toolik Field Station Toolik Field Station GIS TFS Environmental Data Center	Alaska Geobotany Center	Geographic Information Network of Alaska
Water and Environmental Research Center	University of Alaska Fairbanks	Arctic Long Term Ecological Research	Circumpolar Arctic Vegetation Map

Disclaimer:

Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in the material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation or any other organization.