Bigelow Laboratory: Building a Bloom
In this lab activity from Bigelow Laboratory, students manipulate light and nutrient amounts to analyze the impact on phytoplankton growth.
Read MorePermafrost Change: What It Means to Alaskans and How We Can Adapt
Factsheet on the potential effects of thawing permafrost on Alaska’s permafrost on vegetation, water supplies, transportation, infrastructure, and human health with a discussion of how Alaskans can adapt. Free download from Alaska Sea Grant Bookstore.
Read MoreSea Ice Secure
Episode of the film series Tied to the Land: Voices From Northwest Alaska filmed and edited by Sarah Betcher, 2015. This video showcases ways in which local people are seeking adaptive ways to go about their subsistence way of life in the wake of rapid change in sea ice conditions.
Read MoreSea Level Rise and Storm Surge: What It Means to Alaskans and How We Can Adapt
Factsheet on the potential effects of a warmer global climate that is causing glaciers and ice sheets to melt, which sends more water into the sea, and thermal expansion of the ocean, with the resul of a sea level that is slowly rising. Alaskans Potential adaptation strategies are also discussed. Free download from the Alaska…
Read MoreInupiat Work to Preserve Food and Traditions on Alaska’s North Slope
Article describes the challenges of preserving food in ice cellars as temperatures warm and describes innovative solutions involving science principles, technology and engineering.
Read MoreModeling in Climate Change Research
Katie Spellman, IARC, and Nancy Fresco, SNAP, explain the importance and relevance of computer modeling in making sense of climate change. 13 mins
Read MoreOur Changing World unit
A series of five Alaska Seas and Watersheds investigations included in the Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network (C.L.E.A.N.) Collection. Students explore different impacts of climate change on arctic sea and the Bering Sea ecosystem and on glacial ice, model changes in landscapes and read a case study about how changes in a glacial watershed…
Read MoreFaces of Climate Change I: Overview
Overview of potential climate change impacts on Alaska’s marine ecosystems through interviews with scientists. 2012.
Read MoreFaces of Climate Change II: Disappearing Sea Ice
Observations of changes in sea ice, weather patterns. and Bering Sea and Arctic Ocean marine ecosystems through interviews with scientists and Alaska Natives. Includes Inupiaq names for different types of sea ice. 11 mins. 2012.
Read MoreFaces of Climate Change IIIe Life on the Ice
This video includes interviews of scientists and Alaska Natives to highlight Arctic marine mammals and birds (spectacled eiders, phytoplankton bloom timing, ringed seals, ), how they depend on sea ice, and how these animals will cope in the face of climate change. 7 1/2 mins. 2012.
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