Events

Speakers: Rick Thoman, Climate Specialist (AK Center for Climate Assessment and Preparedness), Abagael Pruitt, Postdoctoral Scholar (University of California Davis), Hannah-Marie Ladd, Indigenous Sentinels Network (Aleut Community of St. Paul Island), Veronica Padula, Chief Science Officer of the Bering Sea Research Center (Aleut Community of St. Paul Island) The Arctic Report Card provides an annual…

Speakers: Darcy Dugan (Director of Alaska's Ocean Acidification Network) & Natalie Monacci (Director of the Ocean Acidification Research Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks) Ocean acidification is a growing topic of interest and concern for Alaska communities. Alaska has been identified as a hotspot, and the effects of ocean acidification are likely to have serious implications…

The Arctic Report Card annually updates the state of the Arctic climate and the ways the changing Arctic is impacting people. This year's Report Card includes an essay on the status of sea ice in 2024 and an essay on carbon cycling, showing that in conjunction with wildfire, Arctic tundra regions have shifted to a…

Speakers: Rick Thoman, Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy; Bobby Schaeffer, Kotzebue Elder and Alaska Arctic Observatory and Knowledge Hub; Roberta Glenn-Borade, Alaska Arctic Observatory and Knowledge; Erik Schoen, International Arctic Research Center Join us for an overview of the Alaska's Changing Environment 2.0 publication, featuring speakers on climate, salmon, and Arctic Indigenous observations. The Alaska's Changing Environment publication…

Speaker: Rick Thoman, ACCAP Climate Specialist We will review recent and current climate conditions around Alaska, discuss forecasting tools, and finish up with the Climate Prediction Center’s forecast for January 2025 and the winter season. Join the gathering online to learn what’s happened and what may be in store with Alaska’s seasonal climate.

Speaker: Dr. Elizabeth Figus, Figus Consulting Services This webinar will synthesize four years of community-based climate services work in Southeast Alaska. A guidance framework will be presented for research co-production, regional networking, and capacity building through partnerships.

Speakers: Rick Thoman, Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy; Jake Dollard, Bureau of Land Management Alaska Fire Service; and Norm McDonald, Alaska Division of Forestry & Fire Protection The 2024 fire season in Alaska was compressed, with most of the area burned occurring in a few weeks in June and the first days of…

Speaker: Margaret Rudolf As part of Rudolf's Interdisciplinary PhD Dissertation Defense, she will focus on co-production of knowledge, which has become popular in arctic research. There is a rising need to understand how to adapt co-production of knowledge to working with Arctic Indigenous Peoples. This interdisciplinary doctoral research highlights four papers (1) a critical analysis…

Join us to review the SE Alaska Drought Report. We'll discuss drought history, causes, and impacts. Select community perspectives will be highlighted.

Dr. Laura Brewington (Arizona State University, the East-West Center) will provide an introduction to the Pacific Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments (RISA) program, one of 11 NOAA RISA programs in the United States focused on regional climate science and adaptation. Now in its 16th year, the Pacific RISA is generating equitable climate solutions in Hawaii…

Speakers: Rick Thoman (ACCAP), Crane Johnson (NWS Alaska-Pacific River Forecast Center) There's a deep spring snowpack across Alaska as spring melt approaches. Crane Johnson with the NWS Alaska-Pacific River Forecast Center will review break-up basics and an overview of current conditions. ACCAP Alaska Climate Specialist Rick Thoman will provide the latest subseasonal outlooks that help…

This webinar will be the third annual review of the green-up forecasting tools and will provide a look-ahead for green-up for Spring 2022.

Speakers: Adelheid Herrmann, Sarah Trainor, & Delores Gregory (Alaska Center for Climate Assessment & Policy) In this informational webinar and Q&A session, speakers will provide an overview of ACCAP’s new Small Grants Program, which aims to build resilience and climate adaptation capacity in regional and statewide nonprofit organizations serving Alaska Native peoples. This new program…

Speaker: Matt Macander, ABR, Inc. Widespread changes in the distribution and abundance of plant functional types (PFTs) are occurring in Arctic and boreal ecosystems due to the intensification of disturbances, such as fire, and climate-driven vegetation dynamics, such as tundra shrub expansion. To understand how these changes affect boreal and tundra ecosystems, we map a…

Speakers: David Payer,  Ecosystems Branch Leader, National Park ServiceDavid Allen, Program Manager, NOAA Arctic Research ProgramErik Obrien, Community and Economic Development Program Manager, Denali CommissionSteve Gray,  Director of the Alaska Climate Adaptation Science Center, U.S. Geological SurveyJohn Pearce, Program Manager, U.S. Geological SurveyLiz Weinberg, IARPC Web manager and Community CoordinatorSorina Stalla, IARPC BIP Development Director…

Speaker: Gay Sheffield, Alaska Sea Grant Marine Advisory Program During summer 2020, the Bering Strait region of Alaska experienced a marine debris event that brought garbage ashore that was different from the types and amount typically observed.  A collaborative response to the event was undertaken by the regional public out of concern for food security,…

Speaker: Jeremy Littell, Alaska Climate Adaptation Science Center (CASC) Climate futures - the projected changes in climate and their impacts - are key content for adaptation plans, vulnerability assessments, and other planning efforts that consider climate change and its impacts. Despite this need, climate projections consistent with best practices for climate information and tailored to…

Speakers: Rick Thoman (ACCAP), Tom Ballinger (UAF), Walt Meier (National Snow & Ice Data Center) NOAA's 16th annual Arctic Report Card was released in December, with an overarching theme documenting ongoing and incipient disruptions to Arctic environments and peoples. This year's report card features 14 essays and ACCAP's Rick Thoman will provide a drive-by tour of…

In this webinar, we will discuss historical relationships between regional atmospheric circulation and peak CEI fire weather conditions (e.g., BUI maxima) through the different fire season phases (i.e., wind, duff, drought, and diurnal periods) during the 1979-2020 period.

ACCAP's portfolio of interwoven research and engagement in Alaska supports the underlying vision of building healthy and thriving Alaskan communities. Core themes include extreme events and impacts and capacity building in support of Tribal resilience. This webinar will detail ACCAP's proposed activities for the next 5 years.

Mark Bertram, supervisory wildlife biologist for the Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge will guide you through the impacts of climatic change on resources in the Yukon Flats Basin.

The Study of Environmental Arctic Change is beginning a new phase in which we are facilitating co-produced syntheses across disciplines and knowledge systems. In this webinar, we will introduce our team leaders, describe our approach, and seek participation of Indigenous, scientific, and decision-making experts.

This is a joint webinar between the Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy and the Alaska Tribal Resilience Learning Network.

In this webinar members of the team from eCampus and IARC will present on the growth and strategy behind Massive Open Online Courses as a mechanism of both education and communication, and on the goals and structure of this course more specifically.

This presentation will discuss the use of a random forest model to exam air quality in Alaska.

This year’s report includes sections on storms, erosion, fish, crab, ocean acidification, plankton, HABs, marine mammals, marine debris and seabirds. The discussion will also provide updates on scientific research taking place during summer 2021 in the Bering Sea region.

Please join us to learn more about the recently released book, Drivers of Landscape Change in the Northwest Boreal Region.

Join this webinar to learn about a new online statewide precipitation tool designed for engineers, but accessible and interesting to everyone.

Crane Johnson with the NWS Alaska-Pacific River Forecast Center will review break-up basics and an overview of current conditions. ACCAP Alaska Climate Specialist Rick Thoman will provide the latest subseasonal outlooks that help inform the APRFC’s official break-up outlook.

We will take a look back at the last ten years of OA research in the Bering Sea,, and highlight new, cutting-edge biogeochemical modeling, forecasting, and projection efforts that have dramatically increased our capacity to understand Alaskan OA.

Join Rick Thoman, Rick Lader, and Jeremy Littell for a webinar about the past, present and future of precipitation extremes in southeast Alaska.

This webinar will give a broad overview of the 2020 Arctic Report Card followed by Alaska-focused highlights.

This seminar will provide an overview of freeze-up science and how you can be involved in helping share freeze-up and other ice condition observations this winter.

Dr. Hauri will present her latest modeling results on how ocean acidification has changed the marine habitats of some of Alaska’s most important species.

We'll examine what's happening and what the coming decades may bring for Interior summers.

In a two part webinar, work on detecting and projecting changes in extreme temperature events over Alaska will be paired with a presentation on attributing the role of anthropogenic climate change in extreme events in Alaska.

Hollings Scholar students will present 1. An exploration of the Hot Dry Windy Index & its applicability to the Alaska wildfire environment 2. The challenge of a changing climate on nighttime fires in Alaska and its impacts on overnight fire growth

We will be presenting some new data and information products, based on the needs of federal and state agency managers, coastal communities, tribes, and private industry, and invite webinar participants and other residents of western Alaska to join our conversation about their observations and their needs.

Green-up, that time when leaves burst forth from Alaska's deciduous trees has important implications for the seasonal ecology, society and even meteorology in the state.

This talk will focus on recent marine operations and shipping in the U.S. maritime Arctic and along the length of the Russian marine Arctic.

How is climate change affecting agriculture in Alaska? This presentation will explore a new tool to answer that question.

Speakers: Gay Sheffield (Sea Grant), Donna Hauser (IARC), Rick Thoman (ACCAP) Summer 2019 was another remarkable year for the Bering and Chukchi Sea regions, with record early sea ice loss in the spring, very warm oceans and late freeze-up producing wide ranging impacts, from the ocean food web to individual and community activities. This webinar…

Speaker: Ken TapeResearch Associate Professor Geophysical Institute Snow, Ice and Permafrost Group University of Alaska Fairbanks Using time series of satellite images, we have observed hundreds of new beaver ponds in tundra regions of western and northern Alaska. This talk will describe beaver movement into arctic tundra regions and some predicted implications for tundra ecosystems.

The purpose of the presentation is to provide a brief background on the NCA, present some current topical areas will include, and seek public feedback. It is hoped that the audience can provides feedback on current landscape changes that are affecting their lifestyles.