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Adapt Alaska is managed by Davin Holen, Coastal Community Resilience Specialist for Alaska Sea Grant at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
In his role with Alaska Sea Grant and as collaborative faculty with at UAF’s International Arctic Research Center, Davin facilitates workshops and other educational activities by building trusted collaborations to provide Alaskans with data and decision support tools to help them adapt to changing environmental and marine conditions to build resilience and enhance community well-being.
About our logo
Salmon are an iconic species for the many cultures and peoples of Alaska. Birch trees symbolize the boreal forests of Alaska's Interior.
Salmon have always been a symbol of bridging oceans and inland waters, through their migrations at the beginnings and ends of their lives.
These migrations are a story of resilience. As salmon travel back from the ocean to their natal rearing habitats, they move through a landscape that has changed since they left. In the end, they are netted at river mouths and fish camps in the boreal forest, helping to sustain lives and cultures.
Like the story of the salmon, our website is dedicated to sharing the story of resilience—both of salmon and of Alaska’s people, as they adapt to a changing climate.
Website photos: Home page photo by Kristine Sowl, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. All other photos by Davin Holen unless indicated otherwise.
About Us
Promoting Coastal Resilience in Arctic Alaska workshop, Unalaska, AK.
Begin your climate adaptation journey at Adapt Alaska
This website emerged from a collaborative research project—Promoting Coastal Resilience in Arctic Alaska—that began in 2017 and included workshops in four regional hub communities in Western Alaska.
During the project, workshop participants identified issues facing communities and the data and decision-support tools needed for action. They also discussed challenges from rapidly changing environmental and marine conditions. These changes have increased the risks to human lives and infrastructure and disrupted the subsistence way of life, community well-being, and local economies.
Following the efforts in Western Alaska, Alaska Sea Grant worked with partners to hold workshop in Southeast Alaska, Kodiak, and the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. This website is an outcome of these efforts and is informed by all our partners.
This website is meant to be a learning and planning tool for all communities in Alaska. Here, you can find:
- Steps for crafting your own monitoring, mitigation, resilience, and adaptation solutions
- Alaska-specific web resources, including resources related to funding resilience work
Adapt Alaska is also the face of Alaska Sea Grant's Coastal Resilience program.
Learn more about the Adapt Alaska project
Funding for community resilience workshops and Adapt Alaska
Funding came from the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Alaska Sea Grant, the National Park Service, and the Aleutian Pribilof Islands Association using a resilience grant from the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Founding partners
- Alaska Center for Climate Assessment & Policy
- Alaska Climate Adaptation Science Center
- Alaska Ocean Observing System
- Alaska Sea Grant
- Aleutian Pribilof Islands Association
- Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes
- National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration
- National Park Service
- Northern Latitudes Partnership
- Sitka Tribe of Alaska
- University of Alaska Fairbanks College of Fisheries & Ocean Sciences
