Focus Areas
To build healthy and thriving Alaskan communities, economies, and ecosystems in a changing climate, ACCAP is focused on several core areas:
Extreme Events — Tribal Resilience
Outreach and Engagement — Sustained Assessment
Small Grants — Evaluation
Extreme Events
Our team researches extreme events and their impacts through an integrated approach. For example, we document socio-economic impacts of extreme climate and weather events, we engage practitioners to determine and meet information needs, and we analyze historical and projected change occurrences to inform policy and decision-making.
Featured projects
- Southeast Alaska Drought and Extreme Event Workshop
- Avalanche Assessment and Prediction in Alaska
Recent publications and reports
- Extreme precipitation trends in Alaska: Historical trends and projected changes
- Impacts of climate change and climate extremes on Arctic livelihoods and communities.
Tribal Resilience
Our team is working on building capacity in Alaska Native communities to support Tribal Resilience. We work with Alaska Native Peoples to investigate boundary spanning and knowledge co-production between communities and climate researchers. Outcomes inform workforce and economic development and adaptation planning.
Featured projects
- Kake Climate Partnership
- Building Capacity of Rural Communities to Respond and Adapt to Climate Change
Recent publications and reports
- Kake Climate Partnership Handout
Outreach and Engagement
Our team advances climate change related outreach, science communication, engagement, and networking in Alaska among diverse groups, including Alaska Native-serving organizations, Tribal governments, Alaska Native communities, state and federal agencies, university scientists, and state and federal policy-makers.
Featured projects
Recent reports, news, and communications
- AMAP - Special Report on Societal Implications to Climate Change
- NOAA Arctic Report Card
- Washington Post article about Alaska June record-breaking wildfires
Sustained Assessment
Sustained assessment is a supplemental program aimed at deepening engagement with communities, developing networks to share information, delivering climate science and services to support action, and working with communities to monitor and evaluate processes.
Featured projects
- Sustained assessment network
- Sustained assessment workshop, June 2022
Recent publications and reports
- Handout explaining the sustained assessment network
Small Grants
This supplemental program provides funding to statewide and regional non-profit organizations that serve Alaska Native Peoples. The goal of the program is to enhance capacity for resilience and adaptation by supporting efforts to develop local leadership, share relevant scientific information, and create a process for mutual learning.
Featured projects
Recent publications and reports
- Small Grants Competition Announcement
Program Evaluation
Our team uses evaluation processes to determine how well our research is informing societal outcomes as well as our internal understanding of what motivates our work, our underlying assumptions, and why we believe that our interventions will lead to anticipated outcomes (our Theory of Change).
Featured projects
- Kake Climate Partnership co-production assessment
- Supporting coastal community resilience in Alaska: an evaluation of the Sea Ice for Walrus Outlook (SIWO)
Recents reports and publications
