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The Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy is now the Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Preparedness. The single word shift from policy to preparedness better represents the work ACCAP has been doing in Alaska for nearly two decades. New name, same meaningful role working to build healthy and thriving Alaska communities, economies, and ecosystems in a changing climate. Preparedness is at the core of our research, engagement, and communication efforts. ACCAP’s approach empowers…
ACCAP launched a new podcast this week exploring the life and career of Rick Thoman, from tracking the weather on his bedroom wall as a child to becoming Alaska’s trusted source of climate information. “I’ve been interested in weather and climate from my earliest memories,” said Thoman, ACCAP’s climate specialist. “As a child, probably late elementary school, junior high school age, every morning I would get up and I would look at the temperature on…
ACCAP’s partners at the Alaska Fire Science Consortium released an updated report highlighting recent wildfire trends in Alaska, their impacts to humans and wildlife, and how science can improve wildfire management decisions. “Alaska’s Changing Wildfire Environment 2.0” provides people with timely, reliable and understandable information in a visually appealing and concise format. It updates key long-term wildfire trends and highlights the changes and impacts that have emerged or accelerated over the past five years. The…
The Alaska we experience today and our children will experience in the future is not the Alaska of the past. According to the 2024 Arctic Report Card, released this week by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and co-authored by ten University of Alaska Fairbanks scientists, warming is affecting caribou populations, heat-trapping gas releases and many other parts of the ecosystem. This year is on track to be the world’s hottest year. And for the 11th…
The Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy released a new report this week highlighting environmental changes and extremes that impact Alaskans and their livelihoods. “Alaska’s Changing Environment” provides people with timely, reliable and understandable information on topics ranging from temperature and precipitation changes to salmon and polar bears. The report was led by ACCAP and the UAF International Arctic Research Center, with contributions from more that 40 scientists and Indigenous experts across the state. This is…