Climate change
Caribou Herds in Arctic Alaska Tundra Areas are on Opposite Trends
What Happens When a Community Passes ‘Peak Water’? Cordova and Kodiak Tell Two Stories of Energy and Industry
Warm winter culture
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.
In Alaska’s tundra desert, freshwater fish survival depends on a lesser-known — and thinning — permafrost feature
Studying a Melting World: Seventy Years of Glacier Records Threatened
When it rains, it snows – precipitation changes across Alaska
Upcoming Webinar to Help Alaska Fire Managers Plan for an Uncertain Future
Fire seasons are changing, and Alaska Climate Adaptation Science Center science is trying to help fire managers prepare.
Jeremy Littell, an AK CASC research ecologist, is presenting on what those changes might look like in a webinar for the Alaska Fire Science Consortium Tuesday, April 21.
Littell will explain how future projections from ALFRESCO fire modeling and the Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System (CFFDRS) may be used to plan for future changes in fire regimes and weather.
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.
