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SUMMARY:January NWS Alaska Climate Outlook Briefing
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Rick Thoman\, Climate Specialist\, AK Center for Climate Assessment and Preparedness \n\n\n\n2025 and the start of 2026 brought a lot of extreme weather to Alaska. During this month’s Climate Outlook Briefing\, Rick will review recent and current climate conditions around Alaska\, highlights from 2025\, discuss forecasting tools\, and finish up with the Climate Prediction Center’s forecast for February and the remainder of the late winter season. 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\nPDF of Presentation slides
URL:https://uaf-accap.org/event/jan2026-alaska-climate-outlook/
CATEGORIES:NWS Climate Outlook Briefing
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SUMMARY:Adventurer Meets Expert: A Practical and Scientific Guide to Using Windy.com in Alaska
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Luc Mehl\, Alaska-based Adventurer/Outdoor Educator\, Triple Point Training\, and Jonathan Chriest\, Lead Meteorologist\, National Weather Service \n\n\n\nAbout the Webinar: This webinar introduces practical ways to use Windy.com for planning outings in Alaska. Adventurer Luc Mehl will demonstrate how he uses the application in real backcountry scenarios\, while Jonathan Chriest\, a meteorologist\, explains the forecasting tools and models that underpin it. Together\, they’ll help you understand Windy’s strengths and limitations\, and how to use it more effectively to stay safe outdoors. \n\n\n\nBios: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLuc Mehl is an Alaska-based adventurer and outdoor educator who has traveled thousands of miles across the state by ski\, packraft\, bike\, foot\, and ice skates. Through his company\, Triple Point Training\, Luc specializes in teaching safe and effective backcountry travel\, drawing on his background in environmental data science\, wilderness risk management\, and work as an ice\, swiftwater\, and avalanche rescue instructor. Luc has earned two national book awards as well as national recognition for public service and outreach. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJonathan Chriest works as a Lead Meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Fairbanks. As an active Alaskan adventurer\, Jonathan is passionate about helping organizations and individuals use weather and water information to make safer and more effective decisions from the tarmac\, to the backcountry\, to the fireline where he also works as an Incident Meteorologist. Jonathan holds a Master’s of Science in Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
URL:https://uaf-accap.org/event/using-windy-com-in-alaska/
CATEGORIES:ACCAP Climate Webinar
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SUMMARY:VAWS - Introducing NISAR: NASA's Biggest Earth Observation Mission
DESCRIPTION:PDF Presentation Slides\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Franz Meyer\, Professor\, UAF Geophysical Institute\, Chief Scientist\, Alaska Satellite Facility \n\n\n\nAbout the webinar: Some of the recent earthquakes in Alaska and across the globe showed us how violently Earth can sometimes move under our feet. In July 2025\, NASA\, in collaboration with the Indian Space Research Organization\, launched the NISAR satellite mission that will allow us to monitor such events at unprecedented accuracy\, helping us better understand many of the natural hazards that affect Alaskans daily. \n\n\n\nNISAR will revolutionize how we monitor Earth. It will be able to monitor volcanoes\, glaciers\, sea ice\, forests\, and seismic zones independent of weather and daylight conditions. NISAR’s instruments will be able to measure movements of Earth down to a centimeter accuracy\, an incredible feat for a sensor orbiting more than 800 kilometers away. NISAR will collect more free-and-open data than NASA currently holds in all of its archives. \n\n\n\nIn addition to an overview of NISAR itself\, this talk will also highlight Alaska’s important role in this mission. Working closely with NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory\, UAF’s Alaska Satellite Facility downlinks\, archives\, and distributes NISAR’s data to an international audience of scientists and decision-makers\, all right here from Alaska. Supported by its talented local staff\, this will make ASF one of the world’s leading data centers. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBio: Meyer has more than 25 years of experience in the theory and application of radar remote sensing. He has been teaching radar remote sensing-related topics since 2000. He has been the PI of several successful research projects funded by NASA\, NGA\, private industry\, and the European Union. Meyer has published more than 150 publications\, five of which received best paper awards. He was awarded the IEEE GRSS GOLD Early Career award in 2011\, the Terris and Katrina Moore Prize in 2014\, a NASA/USAID SERVIR Collaboration Award in 2019\, the IEEE GRSS Education Award in 2024\, and the Emil Usibelli Distinguished Research Award in 2025. He holds chair or Co-Chair positions in IEEE GRSS\, ISPRS\, IGS\, and EarthScope. He is the Chief Scientist of the Alaska Satellite Facility\, a current Science Team Member of the NASA-ISRO SAR mission NISAR\, and a Project Science Team member of the JPL OPERA project.
URL:https://uaf-accap.org/event/vaws-introducing-nisar-nasas-biggest-earth-observation-mission/
CATEGORIES:Virtual Alaska Weather Symposium
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SUMMARY:Arctic Report Card 2025: Celebrating the 20th Edition
DESCRIPTION: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) \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nThe Arctic Report Card provides an annual update on the state of the Arctic system\, highlighting key climate indicators and the impacts of rapid environmental change on Arctic communities and ecosystems. This ACCAP webinar will review major findings from this year’s 20th edition\, marking two decades of sustained observations and scientific assessment. Speakers will share insights from the newest essays and indicators compiled by international research teams. Supported by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration\, the Arctic Report Card is released each December at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. \n\n\n\nPDF of Presentation Slides\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBios: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRick Thoman is the Alaska Climate Specialist with ACCAP and has many years of experience producing reliable Alaska climate information and graphics describing Alaska’s changing environment. His work spans the bridge between climate modeling\, Alaska communities\, and the media. \n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbagael Pruitt is a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California\, Davis\, in the Department of Environmental Toxicology. Abagael works on the Rusting Rivers project\, and am a coauthor on the Rusting Rivers chapter of the 2025 Arctic Report Card. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHannah-Marie Ladd is the Program Director of the Indigenous Sentinels Network (ISN) that is operated by the Aleut Community of St. Paul Island Tribal Government. She leads the program in supporting a tribally owned software development to support implementing community-driven environmental and climate monitoring initiatives. ISN partners with tribal\, federal\, state\, nonprofit\, and community organizations to collect and utilize environmental data to support climate adaptation and conservation efforts in Alaska and beyond. With a background in environmental studies\, sustainability\, anthropology\, marine policy\, coordination\, and data collection\, Hannah-Marie’s work focuses on climate adaptation\, coastal resource management\, and community-led change. She brings experience in project management\, environmental research\, and fostering equitable collaborations across diverse stakeholders. Born in Colorado with multi-racial roots (Hispanic\, European\, and Native American (Sioux Tribe))\, she has worked globally and is now living in Alaska\, where she continues to expand her expertise in storytelling\, creative media\, and activism. \n\n\n\nLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/garciahm/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVeronica Padula is the Chief Science Officer of the Bering Sea Research Center\, which is operated by the Aleut Community of St. Paul Island Tribal Government. In this role\, she supports the growth and expansion of tribal and community-led scientific research\, strengthening collaborations among tribal\, academic and governmental agencies to address ongoing community concerns and questions. Her main research interests are in ecosystem health\, particularly the impacts marine pollution has on ecosystem health.
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CATEGORIES:ACCAP Climate Webinar
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