IARC Communications

ACCAP Postdoc Opportunity

August 11, 2022

The Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy (ACCAP) is seeking a highly innovative and energetic interdisciplinary scientist with interest and aptitude in bridging science and practice, partnerships between researchers and local knowledge, and/or actionable science to join our team.

ACCAP’s Rick Thoman presents at weather and climate summit

September 5, 2019

In this video presentation recorded at the 2019 Glen Gerberg Weather & Climate Summit, ACCAP Climate Specialist Rick Thoman gives a brief background of his career, as well as what the International Arctic Research Center at UAF is doing to evaluate climate change.

Climate and weather: what’s the difference?

September 5, 2019

Graphic of two people, an older man in blue and a younger man in yellow, sitting at a table.

ACCAP Climate Specialist Rick Thoman explains the difference between climate and weather in this animated short.

Quarterly Climate & Weather Report – March–May 2019

June 27, 2019

Storm clouds from a thunderstorm with lightning.

March 2019 was exceptionally mild over nearly all of Alaska and northwest Canada. Why? Three main factors were involved: a persistent high pressure system over the region, record-low sea ice extent, and warm ocean temperatures.