Multiple ACCAP Webinars Available
Alaska Climate Webinar
Current Coastal Change Research/Management Projects and Priority
Information Needs from Cook Inlet through Southeastern Alaska
Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy
10:00-11:00 a.m. AKST
Tuesday, 8 November 2016Alaska Climate Webinar
Observed Changes in Terrestrial Wildlife Linked to 20th Century
Warming in Arctic Alaska
Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy
10:00-11:00 a.m. AKST
Tuesday, 15 November 2016National Weather Service Alaska Climate Forecast Briefing for
November 2016
Dynamical Downscaling for Alaska: What is it and How to Use it?
Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy
12:00-11:00 p.m. AKST
Friday, 18 November 2016
- Alaska Climate Webinar
Current Coastal Change Research/Management Projects and Priority
Information needs from Cook Inlet through Southeastern Alaska
Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy
10:00-11:00 a.m. AKST
Tuesday, 8 November 2016
The Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy (ACCAP) will host a
webinar entitled, "Current Coastal Change Research/Management Projects
and Priority Information Needs from Cook Inlet through Southeastern
Alaska." The webinar will be presented by Michaela Swanson of the
University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Research on coastal change in the north Pacific has increased rapidly in
recent years, making it challenging to track existing projects,
understand their cumulative insights, gauge remaining research gaps, and
prioritize future work. The goals of this project were to foster better
coordination about coastal change studies, help practitioners and
scholars learn from one another, identify existing research gaps,
increase transparency and accessibility to stakeholders in the region,
and provide a framework for better understanding how projects interact.
Investigators identified current coastal change projects in the region
by conducting an extensive internet search utilizing existing databases
and online resources and sending out requests for information to
stakeholders from a diverse range of university, state, federal, tribal
and local institutions. This webinar will present the results of this
research.
For more information or to register online, go to:
https://accap.uaf.edu/NPLCC_webinar.
Participation in person is also available at the University of Alaska
Fairbanks, Akasofu Building, Room 407.
For questions, contact:
Tina Buxbaum
Email: tmbuxbaum [at] alaska.edu
- Alaska Climate Webinar
Observed Changes in Terrestrial Wildlife Linked to 20th Century
Warming in Arctic Alaska
Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy
10:00-11:00 a.m. AKST
Tuesday, 15 November 2016
The Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy (ACCAP) will host a
webinar entitled, "Observed Changes in Terrestrial Wildlife Linked to
20th Century Warming in Arctic Alaska." The presenter for this webinar
will be Ken Tape of the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Data linking climate change to observed changes in Arctic marine and
terrestrial wildlife populations are scarce, despite substantial changes
in sea ice and arctic vegetation that constitutes wildlife habitat.
Investigators mined observational records from the Alaskan Arctic to
identify changes in distribution or behavior of many terrestrial
wildlife species during the last century. The presenter will show that
the increase in productivity of arctic vegetation and expansion of
deciduous shrubs resulting from longer and warmer summers starting in
the mid-1800s triggered the establishment of novel tundra herbivore
moose in the 1930s and snowshoe hares in the 1970s, both which depend on
shrubs protruding above the snow for forage in winter. Earlier spring
onset has led to a three- to ten-day earlier return of 16 species of
migratory birds since 1964, though the effect of the altered timing on
population sizes is unknown. Complicated interactions associated with
predation, disease, trophic mismatch, competition, and other factors
compromise predictions, underscoring the need to analyze observed
wildlife changes and to maintain long-term studies.
For more information or to register online, go to:
https://accap.uaf.edu/NPLCC_webinar.
Participation in person is also available at the University of Alaska
Fairbanks, Akasofu Building, Room 407.
For questions, contact:
Tina Buxbaum
Email: tmbuxbaum [at] alaska.edu
- National Weather Service Alaska Climate Forecast Briefing for
November 2016
Dynamical Downscaling for Alaska: What is it and How to Use it?
Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy
12:00-11:00 p.m. AKST
Friday, 18 November 2016
The Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy (ACCAP) will host a
National Weather Service Alaska Climate Briefing webinar for November
2016 entitled, "Dynamical Downscaling for Alaska: What is it and How to
Use it?" The webinar will be presented by Rick Thoman of the National
Weather Service.
The tools and techniques for making monthly and season scale climate
forecasts are rapidly changing, with the potential to provide useful
forecasts at the month and longer range. Rick Thoman (Climate Science
and Services Manager, Environmental and Scientific Services Division,
National Weather Service Alaska Region) will review recent climate
conditions around Alaska, review forecast tools and conclude with the
Climate Prediction Center's forecast for the upcoming season.
Rick will also present a "Feature-of-the-Month" special addition in
which he will highlight a topic relevant to the particular month. This
will be a monthly series generally taking place the third Friday of each
month.
For more information or to register online, go to:
https://accap.uaf.edu/NPLCC_webinar.
Participation in person is also available at the University of Alaska
Fairbanks, Akasofu Building, Room 407.
For questions, contact:
Tina Buxbaum
Email: tmbuxbaum [at] alaska.edu
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