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Kenai Peninsula Communities Struggle for Baseline Water Data Amid Climate Uncertainty

By Christian Thorsberg | April 8, 2025
A person stands in a river, fishing near the riverbank, with buildings and trees behind them.

As temperatures rise on the peninsula, freshwater quality is expected to change — affecting both salmon and humans, new CASC-funded research suggests.

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.

Research connections reveal risks to mountain goats from avalanches in Southeast Alaska

By Mike Delue | May 7, 2024
A white mountain goat looks out at the land while standing on a ledge of a snowy, rocky mountain.

Mountain goats are highly specialized for alpine life but survival requires negotiating precarious trade-offs. Findings from a long-term study by AK CASC researchers show that death from avalanches represents a widespread but previously undescribed pathway by which snow can influence populations of these mountain-adapted animals.

Annual Report – 2023 Year in Review

By Mike Delue | August 23, 2023
A page describing Alaska Climate Adaptation Science Center's 2023 in review.

The AK CASC Annual Report 2023 highlights developments over the last year while also diving deeper into the work of our scientists and staff.

Scientists assess future landslide risk in Alaska’s national parks

By Mike Delue | April 5, 2023
Three people stand in coats while overlooking a landslide on a road in the middle of a rocky slope in the distance.

Original article by Heather McFarland The Pretty Rocks landslide, spurred by greater warmth and rainfall, will force Denali National Park’s main access road to close at the halfway point in 2023 for the second full…

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