About ACCAP
Vision: Build healthy and thriving Alaska communities, economies and ecosystems in a changing climate.
We work to achieve this vision through five core areas: extreme events, community resilience, science communication, small grants, and sustained assessment.
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.
Community resilience
Our team is working on building capacity in Alaska communities to support resilience and preparedness. We work with Alaskans to investigate boundary spanning and knowledge co-production between communities and climate researchers. Outcomes inform workforce and economic development and adaptation planning.
Outreach, engagement and science communication
Our team advances outreach, science communication, engagement, and networking in Alaska among many groups, including community-serving organizations, local governments, communities, state and federal agencies, university scientists, and educators.
Small grants
This supplemental program provides funding to statewide and regional non-profit organizations that serve Alaska communities. 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.
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.
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).