News | Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy

Post-doctoral research position available: Interdisciplinary analysis of economic impacts of climate change in Alaska

August 3, 2019

The Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy (a NOAA Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments team) seeks a post-doctoral research fellow to explore the social and economic impacts of climate change in Alaska from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Post-doctoral research position available: Assessing climate change knowledge co-production and boundary spanning in Alaska

August 1, 2019

We seek a post-doctoral research fellow to explore one or more of these inter-related research areas of knowledge co-production and boundary spanning assessment related to climate change in Alaska.

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.

Climate and weather: what’s the difference?

September 5, 2019

ACCAP Climate Specialist Rick Thoman explains the difference between climate and weather in this animated short.

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.