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Alaska on the Elevator of Climate Change

October 31, 2019

The UAA/APU Books of the Year program is a powerful partnership between the University of Alaska Anchorage and Alaska Pacific University that brings faculty, staff, and community members together to understand common themes through both books serve as the catalyst for discussions of larger issues of local and international significance and invited presentations. Rick Thoman…

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.

Quarterly Climate & Weather Report – March–May 2019

June 27, 2019

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.