Southwest Alaska
Explore the unique conditions shaping Southwest Alaska and the approaches the 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 Yukon-Kuskokwim | Works to organize tribal and community leaders, regional organizations, individuals, researchers and public resource managers to develop practical adaptation strategies. | adaptation-plan health-culture workshop southwest vulnerability |
| Adapt-In-Place Workshop | Alaska Sea Grant’s Adapt-in-Place workshop brought together community leaders from across the North American Arctic to discuss climate adaptation and resilience. Building upon previous “Adapt Alaska” workshops held throughout the state, this event facilitated dialogue between community leaders, elders, and youth to bring climate adaptation plans into on-the-ground resilience projects. In the face of the serious threats posed by climate change, human and community relationships are one of the greatest tools communities hold. | workshop southwest |
| 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 |
| Aleutian and Bering Climate Vulnerability Assessment | Develops future climate scenarios that will be used to assess the vulnerability of resources and ecosystem services within the Aleutian and Bering Sea Islands region. | southwest vulnerability |
| 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 |
| Bering Sea Fishery Vulnerability | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries released a draft climate science action plan for the southeastern Bering Sea that includes a plan to assess the relative vulnerability of 18 commercially important fish species considering expected changes in climate and ocean conditions. | economy emergency health-culture infrastructure leadership southwest vulnerability |
| 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 |
| Erosion Monitoring in Bristol Bay | Through a partnership among the Alaska Department of Natural Resources, the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF), the Bristol Bay Native Association (BBNA), Alaska Sea Grant, and the Alaska Institute for Justice with funding from Alaska Sea Grant, The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to establish a program that gives Alaska’s tribes the capacity to monitor erosion using a consistent standard and methodology. | leadership mitigation 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 |
| Georgetown Vulnerability Assessment Process | This vulnerability assessment combined the best available data and model projections with Traditional Knowledge collected from tribal elders, and included a workshop for community members. | adaptation-plan health-culture southwest vulnerability |
| 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 |
| Grant Writing Assistance Program | Contracts with professional grant writers to provide grant opportunity research and grant writing assistance for member communities. | education funding 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 |
| Igiugig River Turbine | The village council in Igiugig, population 70, is the first tribal entity in the nation licensed by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to harness river water that’s not connected to a dam. Check out the video on this innovative project. | infrastructure southwest |
| Indigenous Sentinels Network | The goal of the BeringWatch Indigenous Sentinel Network (ISN) is to provide remote, indigenous communities with tools, training, networking and convening, coordination, and capacity for ecological, environmental, and climate monitoring. | monitoring 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 |
| Native Voices from the Frontlines of Climate Change | An online video library focused on climate change, its impacts to Savoonga and Shaktoolik, as well as their response strategies. | mitigation southwest vulnerability |
| Newtok’s Land Exchange and Relocation | When Newtok voted to relocate, the community obtained title to a new village site within the Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge through a land-exchange with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). | infrastructure southwest |
| Nushagak Mulchatna Soil Survey | The United States Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service (USDA NRCS) partnered with the Nushagak Mulchatna Watershed Council to complete a soil survey in 2010 that produced maps and descriptions of the soil hydrology, engineering, habitat and ecology for land and river corridors within the watershed. | leadership 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 |
| Port Heiden Vulnerability Assessment | A vulnerability assessment developed from a One Health perspective. | economy health-culture workshop southwest vulnerability |
| Resident Technical Assistance Program | Provides CDQ resident entrepreneurs with a source of assistance in developing business plans, feasibility analysis (small projects), grant mentoring, completing loan applications, financial counseling and other unique needs for developing small businesses. | education southwest |
| 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 |
| Seasonal Adjustments for Subsistence | Climate variability has brought unique challenges in recent years in rural Alaska. In the fall, warmer weather has been extending into August and September in many parts of the state, a challenge for hunters who seek to harvest and process the animal when it is cooler so the meat will not spoil. During the winter hunt, lack of snow-cover means difficulty and unsafe conditions for hunters who travel by snow machine to access distant moose and caribou. | health-culture leadership southwest |
| 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 |
| Yuut Elitnaurviat | Provides training for local jobs that combines intensive academics and on-the-job training in Bethel. | education health-culture southwest |
