Posts by Gigi Friedman
Reading Rings: Subfossil Wood Reveals a Glacier’s Climate History
In 2023, research ecologist Jeremy Litell, along with students and staff from the Juneau Icefield Research Program, skied miles across glaciers and ice ridges to follow up on a report of a five-needle pine tree dwelling in the gnarled, patchy, treeline, known as an alpine ecotone, that lined the Llewellyn Glacier.
The Alaska CASC Goes to Washington
Each year, folks on the university side of the Alaska Climate Adaptation Science Center (AK CASC) make a trek to Washington D.C. The purpose of the visit is to meet with policymakers to share updates about the work that we do to provide communities with actionable science they can use to make decisions related to climate impacts, adaptation, and resilience.