Presenter: Amy Breen

We are creating an Alaska prototype database for the Arctic Vegetation Archive (AVA). The goal of the AVA is to unite and harmonize vegetation-plot data from the Arctic tundra biome for use in developing a pan-Arctic vegetation classification and as a resource for climate-change and biodiversity research. The AVA will be an open access databaase that will be the first to represent an entire global biome. I will present the steps we have taken to create the archive and the steps that still remain. We anticipate a two-year timeline for completion of the Alaska prototype.