Local community verification of shoreline change risks along the Alaskan Arctic Ocean coast (North Slope).

In April 2016, local perspectives of shoreline change risks in the Arctic Slope covering the National Petroleum Reserve - Alaska (NPR-A) and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) were collected using a collaborative mapping process. About 300 shoreline change "problem places" contributed by 50 participants in Wainwright (8), Utqiagvik (32), and Kaktovik (10) were mapped, described, and digitized. The resulting geodatabase consists of problem feature locations linked to transcribed verbal or hand-written description and basic participant background information. Transcripts from audio recorded interactive mappings stored in MS Excel files also include statements that are not associated with a specific location. The purpose of the data set is to verify local shoreline change risks as a front-end evaluation effort to develop a shoreline change risk WebGIS for Alaska's Arctic Slope using a collaborative mapping and Instructional Systems Design (ISD) process.