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SUMMARY:One North\, Two Fire Seasons: A Review of the 2026 Wildfire Season in Alaska\, Yukon\, and Northwest Territories
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Rick Thoman (Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Preparedness)\, Heidi Strader and Jonathan Chriest (Alaska Interagency Coordination Center Predictive Services)\, Mike Smith (Canadian Forest Service)\, and Atoossa Bakhshaii (Government of Yukon) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe 2026 wildfire season told two very different stories across Northern North America. Alaska and the Yukon experienced another relatively quiet fire season\, while the Northwest Territories faced a fourth consecutive summer of widespread\, high-impact fires and smoke. What weather and climate patterns drove these dramatically different outcomes\, and what lessons can they offer for understanding wildfire across the North? \n\n\n\nJoin the Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Preparedness (ACCAP) and the Alaska Fire Science Consortium (AFSC) for a regional review of the 2026 wildfire season. Rick Thoman of ACCAP will provide the broader weather and climate context that influenced fire activity across the region\, while meteorologists from the Alaska Interagency Coordination Center (AICC) Predictive Services and Canadian wildfire experts will review how the season unfolded in Alaska\, Yukon\, and the Northwest Territories. Together\, they will discuss notable fires\, operational challenges\, lessons learned\, and what this year’s contrasting fire seasons may reveal about wildfire across Northern North America. \n\n\n\n(Satellite Image: Wildfires burn in Canada’s Northwest Territories near Great Bear Lake on July 8\, courtesy of MODIS Land Rapid Response Team\, NASA GSFC) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister for Webinar
URL:https://uaf-accap.org/event/2026-fire-season-review/
CATEGORIES:ACCAP Climate Webinar
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SUMMARY:VAWS Webinar - Tsunami Alerting in Alaska
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Summer Ohlendorf\, Science and Operations Officer\, National Tsunami Warning Center \n\n\n\nA map illustrating the propagation and wave travel times of the April 1\, 1946\, Aleutian Islands tsunami.\n\n\n\n\nAbstract: From Palmer\, Alaska\, the U.S. National Tsunami Warning Center monitors 24×7 for any hazards that may produce dangerous tsunamis for the continental U.S. and Canadian coasts. Over the decades\, the center has incrementally continued to grow in both area of responsibility and breadth of the hazards it monitors. This session will provide an overview of the types of tsunami hazards present in Alaska\, how the team\, NTWC\, and their partners assess and alert for tsunamis as events unfold\, and how you can be better prepared for the next one. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBio: Summer Ohlendorf serves as the Science and Operations Officer at NOAA’s National Tsunami Warning Center. In that role\, she manages the center’s data ingests and analysis\, training and operations\, and integration of scientific advancements. Summer holds a Ph.D in Geophysics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has now been at the NTWC for 11 years. She’s passionate about leveraging the expertise of the TWC staff and their scientific partners to improve warning quality and community preparedness for a broad range of tsunami sources \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister Here
URL:https://uaf-accap.org/event/vaws-webinar-tsunami-alerting-in-alaska/
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SUMMARY:October ACCAP Alaska Climate Outlook Briefing
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Rick Thoman\, Climate Specialist\, AK Center for Climate Assessment and Preparedness \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDuring this month’s Climate Outlook Briefing\, Rick will review recent and current climate conditions around Alaska\, discuss forecasting tools\, and finish up with NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center forecast for November and the upcoming winter. Join the gathering online to learn what’s happened and what may be in store with Alaska’s seasonal climate. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister for Webinar
URL:https://uaf-accap.org/event/oct2026-climate-outlook/
CATEGORIES:ACCAP Climate Webinar,NWS Climate Outlook Briefing
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Anchorage:20261027T110000
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SUMMARY:Introduction to IARPC: Collaborating to Enhance Arctic Research
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Toni O’Boyle (Director of IARPC Collaboration Team Activities\, IARPC Secretariat)\, Elizabeth (Liz) Hoy (Senior Support Scientist\, Global Science and Technology\, Inc. – NASA Carbon Cycle and Ecosystems Office)\, Mike Loranty (Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies and Department of Geography Chair\, Colgate University)\, and additional speakers TBD \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee (or IARPC) brings together leaders from 18 agencies\, departments\, and offices across the U.S. federal government on shared research priorities in the Arctic. IARPC also runs IARPC Collaborations: a platform connecting federal government researchers\, non-federal researchers\, and Arctic communities—including those overseas—to work together on pressing Arctic research issues. \n\n\n\nJoin this session to hear from a few IARPC co-leaders about their team’s focus areas and activities\, and learn how you can get involved with IARPC! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister for Webinar
URL:https://uaf-accap.org/event/introduction-to-iarpc/
CATEGORIES:ACCAP Climate Webinar
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SUMMARY:Living On the Edge: The Ecology of Mountain Goats and Avalanches in Alaska
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Kevin White\, Wildlife Ecologist\, University of Alaska Southeast \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSurvival in extreme environments requires perilous trade-offs. Mountain goats use steep\, exposed terrain to avoid carnivores such as wolves\, but there can be a significant cost of this behavior – exposure to snow avalanches. In this presentation\, Kevin White\, a wildlife ecologist with the University of Alaska Southeast\, will talk about long-term studies describing the extraordinary natural history and population ecology of mountain goats in coastal Alaska. He will specifically focus on recent analyses seeking to understand how avalanches transform mountain landscapes and alpine wildlife populations that inhabit them. Functioning as ecologically extreme events\, avalanches can elicit substantial population declines requiring more than a generation for demographic recovery – highlighting the importance of climate-linked factors for mountain wildlife populations. The exciting multidisciplinary research involved extensive collaboration with University of Alaska snow scientists Eran Hood and Gabe Wolken\, and others from the US\, Canada and Switzerland. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister for Webinar\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKevin White is a wildlife ecologist with the University of Alaska Southeast\, Program on the Environment\, Department of Natural Sciences. He studies mountain ecology\, including how such systems are influenced by ongoing change. Based upon extensive field studies in Alaska\, his recent research has been principally focused on the role of climate\, weather and snow avalanches on the population ecology of mountain goats.
URL:https://uaf-accap.org/event/mountain-goats-and-avalanches/
CATEGORIES:ACCAP Climate Webinar
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SUMMARY:November ACCAP Alaska Climate Outlook Briefing
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Rick Thoman\, ACCAP Climate Specialist \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDuring this month’s Climate Outlook Briefing\, Rick will review recent and current climate conditions around Alaska\, discuss forecasting tools and the strong El Niño now underway\, and finish with the Climate Prediction Center’s outlook for December and the remainder of the winter. Learn how El Niño and recent climate conditions may shape Alaska’s seasonal outlook and what could lie ahead in the months to come. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister for webinar
URL:https://uaf-accap.org/event/nov2026-climate-outlook/
CATEGORIES:NWS Climate Outlook Briefing
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