Ecology | AK CASC

UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS | ALASKA CLIMATE ADAPTATION SCIENCE CENTER

The quietly essential salmon stream

By Ned Rozell | September 25, 2025

A man wearing a gray baseball cap, sitting in a gray, inflatable raft, collects samples from the water he is floating in, while surrounded by autumnal trees.

On this rainy September afternoon, Erik Schoen vacuums water from a backwater slough. The liquid will tell him if there are predators in this body of water.

In Metlakatla, Salmonberries Speak and Tell Time

By Christian Thorsberg | February 20, 2025

A hand holds a pile of red and orange salmonberries in front of green leaves.

Throughout the Berry Futures project, it became clear: Berries gather people, as much as people gather berries.

At latest PI-AK exchange, subsistence and sovereignty take center stage

By Christian Thorsberg | September 16, 2024

A group of people stand watch a shirtless man in shorts gesture while standing in over a foot of mud in a taro field.

The two CASCs shared ocean-spanning reflections at the Hawaiʻi Conservation Conference in late July.

New CASC Microberry Project Kicks Off

By Mike Delue | October 1, 2021

A child's hands hold a petri dish over a while table, while wearing a warm winter coat.

The Microberry project may be a new initiative for the AK CASC, but the team are no newcomers to citizen science efforts.

Models for climate-driven impacts on Alaska berries

By Molly Tankersley | September 12, 2019

Two women sit and point with markers at a map on a table.

The Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta Berry Outlook project works to identify the causes of recent changes in berry abundance and distribution in order to develop maps and models to aid local residents.