The observer program database contains information collected by biologist placed on board commercial crabbing vessels in the Bering Sea and the Aleutians. The observer program was implemented in 1988 and continues to the present. The database contains fishery efforts, catch abundance and composition profiles and species biological characteristics. The database is updated annually.

Continuous, year-round Aanderaa current meter observations for stations in the Beaufort Sea, Archipelago, Baffin Bay, and elsewhere in the arctic to 2000. In some areas current meters have been replaced (in the 1990`s) by acoustic Doppler current profiler data .

Variable Name (Sampling): Siberian High Pressure (Jan-Mar Mean) ID: 75 Region: Siberia Data Type: Atmosphere Units: hPa Lon.:170E Lat.: 68N Start Year: 1948 End Year: 1994

Variable Name (Sampling): Zonal Wind (JFM Mean at 300 hPa) ID: 21 Region: Bering Sea, Aleution Islands Data Type: Fisheries Units: normalized Lon.:170W Lat.: 53N Start Year: 1965 End Year: 1997

Suite of time series data describing the climate and ecosystem of the Bering Sea, including weather, oceanographic and climate data, sea ice data, fisheries and other biological data. Complete metadata, relevance to the ecosystem, recent trends, and user controlled graphics and correlation functions are available with the data. Time series extend from 1900 to the present.This comprehensive and transitional Bering Sea resource includes additional information relevant to the Bering Climate, such as photographs, maps, ecosystems, Expert Essays on key Bering Sea climate and ecosystem topics and other data and information resources.

Variable Name (Sampling): Chum Salmon Catch (Assigned to Ocean Entry Year) ID: 24 Region: Bering Sea, East Data Type: Fisheries Units: log-normalized Lon.:166W Lat.: 56N Start Year: 1965 End Year: 1997

Variable Name (Sampling): Air Temperature (Dec Mean at 925 hPa) ID: 7 Region: Arctic: EOF3 Data Type: Atmosphere Units: normalized Lon.:180E Lat.: 70N Start Year: 1948 End Year: 1999

Contains commercial catch and biomass parameters of groundfish species collected by observers aboard domestic (US) commercial fishing vessels operating in the US EEZ of the Bering Sea and North Pacific Ocean.

Variable Name (Sampling): Turbot Recruitment (Annual) ID: 33 Region: Bering Sea, East Data Type: Fisheries Units: normalized Lon.:168W Lat.: 60N Start Year: 1965 End Year: 1997

We initially focused on bringing together existing information on contaminants in Native foods and on building a network of Native villages and organizations concerned about contaminants and other environmental changes. We worked closely with people leading the Canadian Northern Contaminants Program, learning from their experience. We decided that the most effective way to make information available to Alaska Natives and to interested government and university researchers is an interactive computer database. Three years ago many villages could not effectively access the internet. We therefore designed the database to work on individual computers. And, to avoid requiring Native villages to purchase special software, we designed the database to run on its own compiled version of Microsoft Access and Visual Basic. The database contains information on existing measures of contaminants in species of fish and animals harvested by Alaska Natives, harvest and consumption data, nutrition data, descriptions of the role of harvest and Native food consumption in communities, and examples of community initiatives taken in response to concerns about environmental change. The reader can see an overview of the Contaminants and Native Foods Database on the web at: www.nativeknowledge.org.