Subsistence | AK CASC

USGS salmon research features at Yukon River Panel preseason meeting

April 25, 2025

Vanessa von Biela’s studies on heat stress, spawning, and salmon mothers received great attention from U.S. and Canadian leaders.

In Metlakatla, Salmonberries Speak and Tell Time

February 20, 2025

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

AK CASC Tribal Liaisons and Researchers Lead and Learn at Historic Tribal Climate Conference

October 23, 2024

Hundreds of Indigenous leaders, knowledge holders, artists and scientists, along with many non-Indigenous partners, were welcomed to Anchorage in September for the National Tribal and Indigenous Climate Conference (NTICC), the first ever national tribal conference addressing climate change held in Alaska.

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

September 16, 2024

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

Digging for the future of shellfish: AK CASC and Tribal researchers work together to understand changes to a valued subsistence resource

September 20, 2022

three people sit on a rocky beach holding shellfish

As the tide creeps up the shoreline at Juneau’s Amalga Harbor, AK CASC-supported researcher John Harley works shoulder to shoulder with collaborators from the Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska (CCTHITA),…

Vulnerability of subsistence systems in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, Alaska

November 12, 2019

A newly-published article, by USGS lead author Nicole Herman-Mercer, focuses on the impacts that social and environmental changes may have on subsistence practices in Alaska’s Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta.

Models for climate-driven impacts on Alaska berries

September 12, 2019

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.