Southeast Alaska
Explore the unique conditions shaping Southeast 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Adapt Alaska Coasts | The Adapt Alaska Coasts project consists of four regional workshops focused on community-led resilience solutions to climate change. The four regions represented by the workshop series were the Kodiak Island, Chugach Region, the Bristol Bay Region, Southeast Alaska, and the Aleutian and Pribilof Island Region. These workshops were hosted by Alaska Native Organizations and customized by place. | workshop southcentral southeast southwest |
| Adapt Fisheries | This project collaborated with three of the most highly dependent and diverse fishing communities in the region—Cordova, Kodiak, and Sitka—to develop fisheries adaptation plans. The work was led by community organizations: the Prince William Sound Science Center (Cordova), the Alaska Marine Conservation Council (Kodiak), and the Alaska Sustainable Fisheries Trust (Sitka). These organizations partnered with communities in their regions to ensure planning efforts were inclusive of broader regional climate impacts and resilience needs, and to synergize existing community plans for hazard management, economic development, and climate resilience. | adaptation-plan economy southcentral southeast |
| Adapt Southeast | Convened environmental program managers from 17 tribes in Southeast, as well as representatives from state and federal agencies, non-profits, and the University of Alaska. | adaptation-plan health-culture workshop southeast vulnerability |
| 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 |
| Atmospheric River Impacts SE Alaska Story Map | An Atmospheric River moved through Southeast Alaska from November 30th-December 2nd, 2020. This Story Map produced by the National Weather Service details the extreme weather event. | educator-resource southeast |
| Chilkat Indian Village Resilience Plan | The Chilkat Indian Village Environmental Department completed a resilience plan for the village of Tlákw Aan (Klukwan) in 2023. The resilience plan is focused on climate change impacts to critical infrastructure in Tlákw Aan and to plants and animals that are of cultural importance to the Chilkat Indian Village (CIV) and its Tribal Members. | adaptation-plan southeast vulnerability |
| Climate Adaptation Plan Template for Tribes in Southeast Alaska | The Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes has produced a climate adaptation plan (CAP) template for Tribes in Southeast Alaska. | adaptation-plan southeast |
| 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 |
| Drought and Extreme Weather Events in SE Alaska Workshop: List of Presentations and Speakers | List of presentations, speakers, and links from the Drought and Extreme Events in Southeast Alaska Workshop | data-expertise workshop southeast |
| Drought and Extreme Weather Events in Southeast Alaska Workshop | In March 2022, a workshop was held in Juneau, Alaska on the topic of drought and extreme events in Alaska. The goal of the workshop was to build collaboration to enhance data, decision making, and adaptation planning. | workshop southeast |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Ocean Monitoring in Kake, Alaska | A partnership between the Organized Village of Kake, Kake Tribal Corporation, the City of Kake, and the Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy began an ocean monitoring program in Kake, AK in 2020. Team members collected samples of ocean water and mussel tissue and tested for climate and pollution indicators in and around Kake. The majority of the field sampling team were Kake residents, and the data is being archived at the Organized Village of Kake, for use with future comparisons. In these ways, this partnership is able to conduct high quality climate research while upholding data sovereignty for the tribe and providing workforce development opportunities in rural Alaska. | monitoring southeast |
| Our Way of Life Workshop | Held in Sitka, AK, in spring 2025, the Our Way of Life Workshop brought together commercial fishery organizations and Tribes from Cordova, Kodiak, and Sitka to identify shared needs and strengthen collaboration on climate adaptation and resilience in fishing communities. | workshop southcentral southeast |
| 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 |
| Sitka Landslide Risk Dashboard | In response to landslides that took place in 2015, the Sitka Sound Science Center has created a tool for forecasting landslides in the Sitka region of Baranof Island. The landslide warning system launched in the format of a “Landslide Dashboard” web page in the Spring of 2022. | emergency monitoring southeast |
| Southeast Alaska Salmon Simulator | Climate Change is causing changes in stream hydrology that impact salmon populations. Researchers at UAF, SAWC, and USFS have produced a Southeast Alaska Salmon Simulator to model salmon abundance under changing conditions. The simulator provides a tool for stakeholders to input streamflow and temperature data to project the number of returning adult salmon for particular streams. This tool helps to achieve more localized, downscaled projections of salmon returns for communities. | monitoring southeast |
| Tlingit & Haida Adaptation Plan | A road map for prioritizing, monitoring, and responding to climate threats to important subsistence and cultural resources. | adaptation-plan southeast |
| 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 |
