Northern Alaska
Explore the unique conditions shaping Northern Alaska and the approaches communities are using to respond.
Tools include community conversations, vulnerability assessments, monitoring efforts, mitigation actions, and adaptation planning.
| Title | Summary | hf:categories |
|---|---|---|
| Alaska Arctic Observatory & Knowledge Hub | Shares information from community-based observations on sea ice change, and provides tools and observational data relevant to changes in the arctic seasonal cycle. | monitoring northern |
| Alaska Climate Adaptation Science Center | Provides managers with scientific information, tools, and techniques that managers and others interested in land, water, wildlife and cultural resources can use to anticipate, monitor and adapt to climate change. | data-expertise interior northern southcentral southeast southwest |
| Alaska Coastal Hazards Program | The Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys helps build local capacity to monitor flooding and erosion in Alaska communities. This site has the most recent updates for monitoring activities in low bandwidth community-specific pages. | monitoring northern southcentral southeast southwest |
| Alaska Native Cultural Charter School | Maintains Alaska Native culture and curriculum in Anchorage. | education health-culture interior northern southcentral southeast southwest |
| Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program | Brings career guidance and opportunities for work experience to younger students. | education interior northern southcentral southeast southwest |
| Alaska Sea Grant Marine Advisory Program | Helps Alaskans with the practical use and conservation of the state’s marine and freshwater resources. | economy health-culture interior leadership northern southcentral southeast southwest |
| Alaska Water Level Watch | The Alaska Water Level Watch (AWLW) is a collaborative group working to improve the quality, coverage, and accessibility to water level observations in Alaska’s coastal zone. Water level data has many applications that contribute to safe navigation, storm modeling and mapping, tsunami warnings, watches, and advisories, incident response, search and rescue operations, tidal datums, sea-level trends, storm trends, and much more. | monitoring northern southcentral southeast southwest |
| Arctic Youth Ambassadors Program | Brings together youth from across Alaska to serve as ambassadors for their communities and country in building awareness at home and abroad about life in the Arctic. | interior leadership northern southcentral southeast southwest |
| Climate Adaptation Planning in Alaska | The attached report and accompanying StoryMap provide an overview of the current state of climate adaptation planning across Alaska. | adaptation-plan interior mitigation monitoring northern southcentral southeast southwest |
| Community Based Methods for Monitoring Coastal Erosion | Guide for designing and installing erosion monitoring systems, with tips for selecting monitoring sites, instructions for site installation and data collection, and lists of necessary materials. | data-expertise monitoring northern southcentral southwest |
| Environmental Health Field Services | Works with Tribal partners and communities to prevent the spread of disease and protect the health of Alaska Native people. | data-expertise health-culture interior northern southcentral southeast southwest |
| Foundations for Modular Buildings, Unstable Soils, and Floodplains | Multipoint Foundations was developed in response to continued demand for a foundation strong enough to withstand the rigors of flooding, permafrost, and other variable soils. | infrastructure interior mitigation northern southwest |
| Get Help with Hazard Mitigation Planning | Hazard Mitigation Plans may be integrated into community or comprehensive plans. FEMA requires baseline data of normal conditions to which changes resulting from disaster or hazardous events can be compared. | emergency interior northern southcentral southeast southwest |
| Handbook for Youth Engagement | This handbook is intended to provide advice and guidance for the meaningful inclusion of youth within professional convenings, and specifically environmental conferences and forums. | interior northern southcentral southeast southwest |
| Iñupiaq Immersion School | The only Iñupiaq immersion school in the United States. | education health-culture northern |
| Ilisagvik College | A two-year tribal college in Utqiagvik. | education health-culture northern |
| Kotzebue’s Collaborative Research | A group of Tribal scientists, independent researchers and regional leadership collaborated to study changes in Kotzebue Sound. The Northwest Arctic Borough science program ran for three years, funded by Shell Oil Company to support environmental research and related activities to better understand the region’s marine, freshwater, and terrestrial ecosystems and potential impacts from human activity. | leadership northern |
| Local Environmental Observer (LEO) Network | Provides access to first-hand accounts of climate and environmental change, made by expert observers based on local and traditional knowledge in the area. | interior monitoring northern southcentral southeast southwest |
| PEople on the MOve in a Changing Climate (PEMOCC) | This was the 5th regional workshop planned by a Sea Grant-led Research Coordination Network (RCN), PEople on the MOve in a Changing Climate (PEMOCC), funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). PEMOCC fosters collaboration among diverse experts and stakeholders to address research needs related to climate-induced human mobility, its socioeconomic consequences, and its role in building resilience and adaptation to the impacts of climate change in US coastal and Great Lakes regions. | northern southcentral southeast southwest |
| Personal Preparedness Guidelines | Offers guidelines and a checklist for personal emergency preparedness, including a set of guidelines specifically for Alaska Native communities. | emergency interior northern southcentral southeast southwest |
| Point Lay Walrus Protection | The people of Point Lay have seen dead walrus on shore after observing plane and boat activities in the area. The Native Village of Point Lay is working with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to minimize potential disturbance events by requesting those who must travel by plane or boat follow guidance developed by the USFWS to avoid disturbing the animals on the island or in the sea. | health-culture leadership northern |
| Scenario Planning for the North Slope | Scenarios that describe how resource development could occur and what monitoring efforts would be useful to help protect people and the environment as conditions change. | economy northern |
| Scenarios Network for Alaska + Arctic Planning | Uses climate data to create and share ideas of what a future Northern climate could look like. | data-expertise interior northern southcentral southwest |
| Sea Ice for Walrus Outlook | A resource for sea ice and conditions relevant to walrus. | monitoring northern southwest |
| Shaktoolik Plans for Relocation | Shaktoolik, an Inupiaq village of 250 people located on the Norton Sound coast, is experiencing many of the same environmental changes and threats to traditional life as other similarly situated arctic Alaska coastal villages. In particular, Shaktoolik faces severe threats from storm surges, flooding and coastal erosion that could destroy the community entirely with enough intensity. | infrastructure leadership northern |
| Shishmaref Relocates Buildings | In 1997, under authority granted by the Alaska Statutes, Section 26.23.020, the Governor of Alaska declared that a condition in the City of Shishmaref warranted a disaster declaration in order to qualify for FEMA Disaster Response, Recovery, and Mitigation Assistance under the Robert T. Stafford Act. | infrastructure mitigation northern |
| Tribal Climate Change Guide—University of Oregon | Database providing up-to-date information on grants, programs and plans, potential partners, publications, events, and more that may assist tribes in addressing climate change through a broad range of sectors. | funding interior northern southcentral southeast southwest |
| WAGE Report | This report authored by Alaska Sea Grant shines a light on the challenges remote communities face in taking advantage of resources for addressing environmental threats caused by a rapidly warming Arctic. It provides insight and details regarding climate adaptation planning across the state and recommendations for federal funding agencies, community planners, nonprofits, and others to help them get assistance to all communities in need. | adaptation-plan interior northern southcentral southeast southwest |
