| 2023 | Alaska weather station data availability | Weather stations in Alaska play a crucial role in providing real-time information for decision-making, weather forecasting, and tracking long-term climate trends. Aviation weather observations, often sourced from airports, are among the most widely used and accessible data, including those found on weather apps. This project aims to evaluate the consistency of … | Completed | accap-publication | 2023 | completed |
| 2023 | Alaska Weather Voices podcast | This podcast miniseries focuses on the life and career of ACCAP’s climate specialist, Rick Thoman. Each episode focuses on a different component of Rick’s story, spanning from how he arrived in Alaska to reflections on his near 40 years of service delivering tailored weather and climate information to communities. The … | Completed | outreach-communication science-communication | 2023 | completed |
| 2019 | Alaska’s Changing Environment | Alaska’s Changing Environment highlights environmental changes and extremes that impact Alaskans lives and livelihoods. The first Alaska’s Changing Environment was released in 2019, and it is updated every five years. The reports provide Alaskans with timely, reliable and understandable information on topics ranging from long-term temperature and precipitation trends to … | Ongoing | outreach-communication science-communication | 2019 | ongoing |
| 2023 | StoryMap: Precipitation extremes in Southeast Alaska | In the Southeast Alaska rainforest and mountains, an extreme drought extended from October 2016 until December 2019. Following this historic drought, the region faced recording setting rainfall, which triggered landslides and flooding. The Precipitation extremes in Southeast Alaska StoryMap presents visualizations of new precipitation models for Southeast Alaska, offering insights … | Completed | data-visualization extreme-events outreach-communication | 2023 | completed |
| 2020 | Landscape of Tribal communities | Adelheid Herrmann, co-investigator at ACCAP, developed a set of resources to help people working in rural Alaska understand the current landscape and complexities of Tribal communities. | Ongoing | tribal-resilience | 2020 | ongoing |
| 2023 | Historic extreme events library | The frequency and intensity of wildfires, coastal storms, flooding, landslides, avalanches and other extreme events are increasing in Alaska. An understanding of past events helps people plan for the future, but historical records of extreme events are often incomplete and very difficult to locate. Partnering with the Alaska Fellows, ACCAP … | Ongoing | extreme-events | 2023 | ongoing |
| 2022 | S2S Sea Ice Information | Seasonal to subseasonal (S2S) forecasts offer significant potential to support risk-management decisions for subsistence, search and rescue, and transportation in Alaska coastal communities. In partnership with the Alaska Region National Weather Service (NWS), Arctic Testbed and Proving Ground, Alaska Environmental Science and Services Integration Center, and Alaska Arctic Observatory Knowledge … | Ongoing | extreme-events | 2022 | ongoing |
| 2022 | Fiscal Pathways | The fiscal pathways for federal funding of Tribal climate adaptation and mitigation are complex and bureaucratic, and significant obstacles exist for Tribes and rural Indigenous peoples in accessing and effectively implementing these funds. The fiscal pathways team is assessing available funding and technical assistance options, as well as the effectiveness … | Ongoing | tribal-resilience | 2022 | ongoing |
| 2022 | Small Grants Program Resources | A funding opportunity for statewide and regional non-profit organizations that serve Alaska Native Peoples | Ongoing | adaptation alaska-native grant-program native-tribal | 2022 | ongoing |
| 2022 | Southeast Alaska Drought and Extreme Events | The goal of this workshop was to build on existing efforts and assist with the development of community-driven adaptation strategies to serve the specific needs, challenges, and opportunities of remote, temperate rainforest communities. | Completed | adaptation climate coastal-marine collaboration extreme-events southeast-alaska region | 2022 | completed |
| 2020 | Understanding How to Improve Climate Change Co-Production of Knowledge Projects with Alaska Native Communities | Margaret Anamaq Rudolf, ACCAP Ph.D. student entered her interdisciplinary Ph.D. program wanting to know how to do good community engagement research with Alaska Native communities. This is her work. | Ongoing | adaptation alaska-native climate collaboration food-security native-tribal tribal-resilience | 2020 | ongoing |
| 2020 | Examining and evaluating three different sustainability activities (course, project, and network) | This is a three part project looking at graduate-Level sustainability science courses, examining stakeholder engagement in EPSCoR’s Alaska ACE project, and expanding evaluation metrics for landscape-scale conservation. | Ongoing | adaptation arctic climate collaboration evaluation | 2020 | ongoing |
| 2021 | Alaska Drought Webinar Series | Originally, pre-Covid-19 times one or two statewide meetings were planned to discussion drought in Alaska. But since we are not able to have an in-person Alaska drought workshop, we are moving forward with a webinar series to begin the conversation about drought in Alaska. | Completed | climate cook-inlet extreme-events hydrology native-tribal north-slope northwest-alaska region shaktoolik southeast-alaska terrestrial-ecosystems utqiagvik water weather western-alaska wildfire wildlife | 2021 | completed |
| 2020 | Healing Through Food and Culture | Eva Dawn Burke’s project titled “Healing Through Food and Culture” and explores the strength, resilience, survival and adaptation of rural communities in Alaska in regards to food sovereignty and security. Specifically, how have these communities used these factors to revitalize their food systems, relying on both traditional foods and agricultural … | Ongoing | adaptation alaska-native food-security native-tribal subsistence | 2020 | ongoing |
| 2020 | Supporting coastal community resilience in Alaska: an evaluation of the Sea Ice for Walrus Outlook (SIWO) | The objectives of this project are to evaluate the SIWO to identify how to increase its usability and impact and optimize the SIWO based on a set of stakeholder-generated recommendations. | Ongoing | alaska-native climate evaluation food-security human-health marine-mammals native-tribal tek tribal-resilience | 2020 | ongoing |
| 2019 | Building Capacity of Rural Communities to Respond and Adapt to Climate Change | Many of the Tribes in rural Alaska have been working on an Adaption, Resilience and Mitigation planning process and this project addresses the capacity of these Tribes to carry out and implement these planning processes. | Ongoing | adaptation alaska-native climate collaboration native-tribal tribal-resilience | 2019 | ongoing |
| 2019 | Kake Climate Partnership: co-producing climate research in Southeast Alaska | Elizabeth Figus, ACCAP postdoctoral fellow, is carrying out a climate change case study using an Indigenous partnership co-production process with Kake, Alaska. | Ongoing | climate collaboration fisheries native-tribal southeast-alaska tribal-resilience water region | 2019 | ongoing |
| 2012 | Ocean Acidification Vulnerability Index (OAVI) | We develop an overall index assessing the risk from OA for Alaska. | Completed | fisheries food-security ocean-acidification subsistence | 2012 | completed |
| 2020 | ACCAP at the 2020 Juneau Innovation Summit: Business in a Changing Climate | In Feb 2020, ACCAP played a prominent role in leading the Business in a Changing Climate track of the Juneau Business Innovation Summit. | Completed | climate coastal-marine fisheries glacial-outburst southeast-alaska region | 2020 | completed |
| 2018 | Building capacity for tribal climate adaptation planning in Alaska: a post-training needs assessment | This project used a web-based questionnaire distributed to tribal participants who attend these trainings to understand what additional resources and support they want to help their climate adaptation planning efforts. | Completed | adaptation alaska-native collaboration evaluation native-tribal | 2018 | completed |
| 2019 | Impacts of past and current management decisions and the changing climate on tundra travel | This research analyzes the impacts of past and current management decisions and the changing climate to help elucidate and improve the regionally and nationally important land management decisions related to tundra travel. | Ongoing | adaptation climate engineering ice-roads infrastructure north-slope permafrost region | 2019 | ongoing |
| 2016 | What is success? A case study in planning for climate change in Shaktoolik, Alaska | This case study was done in partnership with the Tribal Council of the Native Village of Shaktoolik to understand how various actors involved in planning for climate change perceive success. | Completed | region shaktoolik tek | 2016 | completed |
| 2015 | Webinar series: Alaska Policy & Climate Adaptation | Webinar series about how Native Villages and other communities in Alaska can apply state, federal and tribal policies to address climate change impacts on water and subsistence resources through water resource management and protection, land and water rights, sovereignty and other resiliency and mitigation strategies. | Completed | adaptation alaska-native webinar | 2015 | completed |
| 2012 | Vulnerability of hydropower production in Alaska to climate variability and change: best practices for communication and application of climate science | Many operators of existing hydropower facilities in the state of Alaska manage their water resources with little or no information about water stored in the snowpack or streamflows feeding the reservoirs. | Completed | hydropower infrastructure science-communication | 2012 | completed |
| 2012 | Using climate divisions to construct anomalies and trends in Alaska | Climate divisions outline geographic regions with homogenous climate variability. | Completed | climate-divisions weather | 2012 | completed |
| 2006 | Tundra lakes project | In spite of industry dependence on ice roads, numerous questions persist regarding when the ice road building season will begin and end, as well as potential environmental consequences of water withdrawal. | Completed | energy ice-roads infrastructure modeling north-slope region | 2006 | completed |
| 2015 | Tribal climate adaptation planning in Nome | The Nome Eskimo Community (NEC), in collaboration with ACCAP, will develop a climate adaptation plan for the tribal organizations located in the Nome Census area. | Completed | extreme-events human-health infrastructure subsistence tek weather | 2015 | completed |
| 2011 | Tongass National Forest climate change vulnerability assessment | To better prepare the Tongass for what the uncertain future might hold in terms of climate change in Southeast Alaska, the US Forest Service and the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) initiated the first of a three-phase vulnerability assessment. | Completed | terrestrial-ecosystems | 2011 | completed |
| 2017 | Synthesis of tribal climate adaptation in Alaska | This work was designed to inform the recently hired Bureau of Indian Affairs tribal climate science liaison for Alaska. | Completed | adaptation native-tribal | 2017 | completed |
| 2015 | Strategies for fostering socio-economic wellbeing in northern US and Russian communities | Improve preparedness and response to annual springtime flooding in Alaska and Yakutia through the development of effective and easily adaptable flood risk mitigation and disaster response and recovery strategies. | Completed | extreme-events infrastructure region russia weather | 2015 | completed |
| 2012 | Social network analysis of climate science and service organizations in Alaska | The landscape of climate science and service organizations and entities in Alaska has expanded rapidly over the past three years and continues to dynamically evolve. | Completed | adaptation social-networks | 2012 | completed |
| 2011 | Snow, ice, and permafrost hazards in Alaska: research needs and opportunities | Forum for scientists and managers to identify information and research needs of state agencies and other organizations working directly with the State of Alaska on issues that are potentially impacted by hazards associated with snow, ice and permafrost. | Completed | infrastructure national-security permafrost shipping | 2011 | completed |
| 2014 | Scenarios of energy and resource development on the North Slope, Alaska | This project focuses on future resource development scenarios on the North Slope, Alaska and adjacent seas. | Completed | energy infrastructure north-slope region | 2014 | completed |
| 2011 | Regional Assessments of Health Vulnerability and Environmental Security (RAVENS) Phase I: Water Security in Bristol Bay | The general goal of this project is to mobilize an integrated assessment framework based on a cumulative effects approach developed originally by the Council of Environmental Quality (EPA 1996) that links broad-scale assessment and inventories of adaptive capacity with GIS and with local-scale ethnographic research to provide a composite and … | Completed | human-health infrastructure | 2011 | completed |
| 2009 | Permafrost settlement caused by climate warming in Alaska and the estimation of its damage costs for public infrastructure | Former ACCAP PhD student Eunkyoung Hong’s dissertation focused on the estimation of additional costs caused by climate change in the field of public infrastructure. Climate models indicate that the changes in the northern latitudes will be serious and accelerated. Climate warming may impact structures in the northern latitudes through permafrost … | Completed | infrastructure permafrost | 2009 | completed |
| 2015 | Permafrost forecasting: Stakeholder listening session | The ability to make predictions on permafrost activity (freeze, thaw, date and depth) is improving, especially on a seasonal scale. | Completed | permafrost | 2015 | completed |
| 2008 | Improving seasonal fire predictions and information services in Alaska for regional and national fire resource planning | A web-based decision-support tool that will help Alaska fire mangers adapt to a changing climate in their suppression and natural resource planning. | Completed | wildfire | 2008 | completed |
| 2018 | ICEX 2018 | Exercise conducted by the US Navy that allows the Navy to assess operational readiness in the Arctic, increase experience there, advance understanding of the Arctic environment, and continue to develop relationships with other services, allies and partner organizations. | Completed | arctic coastal-marine operational-readiness | 2018 | completed |
| 2014 | Hollings Scholar: Impacts of extreme weather events in Alaska | Using a database of storm and other extreme events, the Hollings Scholar Lauren Zuromski compiled a catalog of impacts and determined the linkages between extreme events and impacts. Impacts were be grouped into categories such as: Sources of information (available via web or UAF library) Analyses include: | Completed | extreme-events hollings-scholar infrastructure weather | 2014 | completed |
| 2013 | Gauging public perceptions of ocean acidification in Alaska | The Ocean Acidification Research Center (OARC) has a number of ongoing projects working to better understand how ocean chemistry in Alaska waters is vulnerable to acidification from of a host of regional stressors. | Completed | ocean-acidification | 2013 | completed |
| 2011 | Fisheries, food security, and climate change in the Kenai Peninsula | Access to locally-caught seafood plays a significant role in providing for household food security, especially for the lowest-income households. | Completed | fisheries food-security human-health | 2011 | completed |
| 2009 | Evaluation of fire forecast products to enhance US drought preparedness and response | Assessed the impact that National Seasonal Assessment seasonal and monthly fire outlooks have on decision makers across the agencies who collaborate to plan for and manage wildfires in the Western U.S. | Completed | social-networks wildlife | 2009 | completed |
| 2014 | Coastal change research/management projects and priority information needs in western Alaska | Identify existing coastal change research in Western Alaska and synthesize each project’s focus, approach, and findings. | Completed | coastal-marine region western-alaska | 2014 | completed |
| 2016 | Coastal change research/management projects and priority information needs in Cook Inlet and Southeast Alaska | The goals of this project were to foster better coordination about coastal change studies, help practitioners and scholars learn from one another, identify existing research gaps, make research more transparent and easily accessible to stakeholders in the region, and provide a framework for better understanding how projects interact. | Completed | adaptation coastal-marine cook-inlet region southeast-alaska | 2016 | completed |
| 2008 | Cross-regional dialogue: climate change, water impacts, and Indigenous people | Use modern communication technologies to open a dialogue to plan for and reduce drought-related vulnerabilities, and avert disasters. | Completed | tek water | 2008 | completed |
| 2012 | Contributions to the Integrated Arctic Management Report | In consultation with the National Ocean Council, the National Security Staff, and the Arctic Research Commission, the Interagency Working Group on Coordination of Domestic Energy Development and Permitting in Alaska (Alaska Interagency Working Group) initiated this report to describe these challenges as they relate to the management of natural resources … | Completed | energy fisheries infrastructure national-security subsistence | 2012 | completed |
| 2011 | Coastal and marine visualization tools for the U.S. Arctic and Alaska | Provides important new data relevant to off-shore and coastal locations impacted by variations in surface temperature, winds, and sea ice. | Ongoing | arctic data-visualization | 2011 | ongoing |
| 2010 | Climate change adaptation in Alaska: Science, planning, and action | Synthesis of climate adaptation in Alaska. We engaged semi-structured interviews with key informants in conjunction with document analysis and literature review. | Completed | energy fisheries infrastructure national-climate-assessment shipping subsistence wildlife | 2010 | completed |
| 2015 | Center for Global Change Student Grant Competition | ACCAP (Walsh) served on the review team that reviewed for the 2015 Center for Global Change (CGC) student grant competition at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. CGC annually funds students through a variety of sources and funding agencies (federal and state) as well as University of Alaska general funds. | Completed | adaptation | 2015 | completed |
| 2012 | BioMap Alaska | The BioMap project tests a web-based citizen-science initiative to collect information on marine species of concern and local ecological knowledge of the marine ecosystems along the Alaska region of the Chukchi and Bering seas. | Completed | citizen-science fisheries wildlife | 2012 | completed |
| 2009 | Assessing climate change impacts on forested ecosystems of Alaska | Review and synthesize existing knowledge, provide a baseline and scenarios of change, and identify data gaps and uncertainties related to climate change effects of forested areas in Alaska. | Completed | terrestrial-ecosystems | 2009 | completed |
| 2011 | Alaska Regional Technical Report for the The U.S. National Climate Assessment | The Alaska landscape is changing, both in terms of effects of human activities as a consequence of increased population, social and economic development and their effects on the local and broad landscape; and those effects that accompany naturally occurring hazards such as volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and tsunamis. Some of the … | Completed | fisheries human-health infrastructure invasive-species national-climate-assessment permafrost shipping subsistence tek weather wildlife | 2011 | completed |
| 2015 | ACCAP Mini-Grant Projects 2015 | In the spring of 2015 ACCAP solicited proposals as part of a minigrant competition. | Completed | carbon engineering fisheries hydrology marine-mammals | 2015 | completed |
| 2017 | USDA Alaska Climate Adapters | Rural indigenous communities in Alaska are on the front lines of climate change impacts and adaptation, with direct and immediate impacts on infrastructure, water supplies, health, safety and the ecosystems that they rely on for food and cultural identity. There are over 30 communities that face imminent threats from flooding … | Completed | food-security human-health infrastructure subsistence tek | 2017 | completed |
| 2017 | Sea ice and weather modeling data use in search and rescue operations in the Arctic: a case study in Utqiagvik, Alaska | Potential use and application of radar, satellite, and other tracking data for sea ice and weather conditions in maritime-related Search and Research (SAR) operations in the Arctic. | Completed | extreme-events human-health region search-and-rescue utqiagvik | 2017 | completed |
| 2015 | Projecting changes to extreme weather and climate for Alaska during the 21st century | Extreme events assessment for Alaska using dynamically downscaled regional climate model simulations. | Ongoing | extreme-events | 2015 | ongoing |
| 2015 | Establishing a targeted, functional storminess indicator for the Alaska region | Marine operators in Alaskan coastal waters and adjacent seas are sensitive to weather constraints. Among the stakeholder groups affected are commercial shippers (including barge operators), coastal communities, fishing vessel operators and the offshore oil and gas industry. | Completed | arctic coastal-marine infrastructure shipping | 2015 | completed |
| 2016 | Drilling deep: Knowledge co-production in contested spaces | This study evaluates the North Slope Borough-Shell Baseline Studies Program. | Completed | energy infrastructure north-slope region | 2016 | completed |
| 2017 | Developing sea ice and weather forecasting tools to improve situational awareness and crisis response in the Arctic | This research aims to improve situational awareness and crisis response by enhancing support for planning and emergency response to emerging climate-related environmental marine hazards in the Arctic. | Completed | extreme-events human-health national-security shipping | 2017 | completed |
| 2017 | Catalog of societal impacts of extreme weather and climate events in Nome, Alaska | Human and social impacts can be especially severe in vulnerable, isolated communities of the state. While substantial social and economic impacts have occurred, there is no existing compilation or catalog of societal impacts of extreme events in Alaska. | Ongoing | extreme-events | 2017 | ongoing |
| 2018 | Case Study: What are the most effective ways to relay glacial outburst hazard information to stakeholder groups in Juneau? | The most effective ways to relay glacial outburst hazard information to different stakeholder groups in Juneau | Completed | extreme-events glacial-outburst infrastructure | 2018 | completed |
| 2018 | Building resilience to extreme events and water hazard planning in rural communities | An interdisciplinary approach to water and wastewater resilience to extreme flooding and precipitation events in rural, coastal communities. | Ongoing | extreme-events human-health infrastructure | 2018 | ongoing |
| 2017 | Building capacity for actionable climate science in Alaska | Recent decades have produced significant advancements in climate science, but it can be challenging to apply climate science to local and regional scale resource management, adaptation planning, and decision making. | Ongoing | adaptation | 2017 | ongoing |
| 2016 | Best practices for supporting climate change adaptation planning in northwest Alaska | ACCAP is partnering with Glenn Gray and Associates and Alaska Sea Grant to identify best practices. | Completed | adaptation northwest-alaska region tek | 2016 | completed |
| 2016 | Assessment of the application of climate information in wildfire management and decision-making in Alaska | Measuring and evaluating progress in climate adaptation and decision support science necessitates a robust understanding of science co-production and communication within different management contexts. | Completed | wildfire | 2016 | completed |
| 2015 | Analysis of current and projected economic effects of climate change in Alaska | Describe the potential nature and scope of economic effects of climate change that are likely to become manifest in Alaska over the next 30-50 years. | Completed | erosion extreme-events fisheries food-security human-health infrastructure | 2015 | completed |
| 2015 | Analog forecasting of sea ice | Arctic sea ice has declined dramatically during the last few decades. Estimating the maximum and minimum sea ice extent, before it occurs, is a important tool for developing and implementing near-term public policy. | Completed | adaptation extreme-events weather | 2015 | completed |
| 2017 | Distance learning modules on climate decision support in the Arctic | Arctic-focused climate training is not currently available in the NOAA National Weather Service, but is required for successful evolution of effective Decision Support Services. The project will utilize recommendations on user engagement in the Arctic region as identified by ACCAP via interviews and surveys. Users include NOAA staff and technical … | Completed | distance-learning extreme-events weather | 2017 | completed |
| 2012 | Meta-analysis of needs assessments | We conducted a meta-analysis of 65 documents addressing research needs related to climate change in order to identify common needs and gaps where needs have not been assessed. | Completed | adaptation | 2012 | completed |
