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In Juneau, a new website offers anxious residents a better way to prepare for floods

By Christian Thorsberg | May 27, 2025

A man is looking at a laptop screen and computer monitor displaying a map.

The interactive Juneau Flood Dashboard shares maps, alerts, and water level forecasts for valley homes under different flood scenarios.

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.

2024 International Conference on Permafrost welcomes the circumpolar research community

By Mike Delue | July 2, 2024

A woman and a man with sunglasses on their foreheads stand next to two men with glasses while smiling for a camera.

This year’s International Conference on Permafrost in Whitehorse, Yukon drew significant participation from the Alaska CASC. Read more about the experiences of Julian Dann, Ryan Toohey, Megan Behnke and Mike DeLue at the conference.

Web tool offers local climate information

By Molly Tankersley | June 6, 2018

Two maps of Alaska with the top map displaying mean annual temperatures in colors ranging from navy blue to maroon and the bottom map displaying mean annual precipitation in colors ranging from white to navy blue.

A new web-based tool will allow communities in Alaska and western Canada to see how global climate change could affect their regions.
A team in the Alaska Climate Adaptation Science Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks created the tool, which transforms predictions from global climate models into more detailed information about local conditions.