About the Caribou-Poker Creeks Research Watershed.

This page created by John G. Irons III for Website http://www.lter.uaf.edu.

The Caribou-Poker Creeks Research Watershed (CPCRW) is a 104 km² basin near Chatanika, Alaska reserved for ecological, hydrological, and climatic research. It is owned jointly by the State of Alaska and the University of Alaska Fairbanks. The entrance to the Research Watershed is located on the Steese Highway about 31 miles from Fairbanks. Access is restricted, and permission for access or to conduct research can be obtained by contacting the lead Principal Investigator, Terry Chapin, or the Data Manager, Darrell Blodgett.

Lower Poker Creek, below the confluence with Caribou Creek. Poker Creek is a fourth-order stream at this point. On the left is a riparian zone of felt-leaf willow (Salix alaxensis) and blue-joint grass (Calamagrostis canadensis), and on the right, the river butts up against mature white spruce (Picea glauca) forest.

About the Research Watershed

• Brief History of the Research Watershed
• Description of the Research Watershed
• Setting of the Research Watershed
• Geology of the Research Watershed
• Climate of the Research Watershed
• Basin Summaries
• Soils of the Research Watershed
• Maps of the Research Watershed
• Species list of aquatic invertebrates

LTER Aquatic Research

• Caribou Poker Creeks Research Watershed LTER Hydrology Project: ongoing and future hydrologic research in CPCRW.
• Frostfire: The role of wildfire in Alaska: experimental and regional approaches to improved understanding of boreal feedbacks to climate.
• Monument Creek and West Fork Study Sites: much of the early aquatic ecology research in interior Alaska was done at these two sites, especially the Monument Creek site. Before the addition of CPCRW to the BNZ LTER, Monument Creek was the "site of record" for BNZ aquatic ecology.
• Summary of LTER Organic Matter Dynamics workshop: in 1993, aquatic researchers working at LTER sites had a workshop to summarize the current state of knowledge of organic matter dynamics in streams and rivers. Monument Creek and two of the Caribou Creek tributaries (C2 and C3) were included in this summary. This page is maintained on the University of Georgia server (see links on the Organic Matter main page).

Other Relevant or Interesting Links

• Regional Hydrology Data (non-LTER)
• Regional Climate Data (non-LTER)
• Other LTER Sites
• Other Research Basins (non-LTER)
• Poker Flat Research Rocket Range
• Water and Environmental Research Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks
• Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL), Alaska Office
• This page created by John G. Irons III, last updated on 18 August 1997

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