Projects

Use this web tool to explore local growing conditions under a changing climate, including growing season length, minimum temperatures, growing degree days, and hardiness zones.

Projections of shifts in 18 climate types linked to ecological biomes across Alaska, the Yukon, and the Northwest Territories. An expansion of the Connecting Alaska Landscapes project.

ALFRESCO simulates responses of subarctic and boreal vegetation to climatic changes.

Relationships between climate change and availability of subsistence resources. Creating scenarios of how and where resources may be available in the future.

ARDAC houses Arctic data sets that can be be utilized in their current form for decision-making and project planning.

The Arctic-EDS will refine and further develop sustainable technologies to provide best-available data curated for engineering design needs in a single, dynamically-updated, online hub.

Using technology to investigate the downward trend of Arctic sea ice.

Understanding risks presented by marine shipping traffic on ecosystem services.

Assessment of the riverine hydrokinetic energy resource in the contiguous 48 states and Alaska, excluding tidal waters.

An assessment of future scenarios in the Chugach National Forest given ongoing climate change, social change, and economic change.

Climate change already is affecting the built environment, including Department of Defense (DoD) built and natural infrastructure. This infrastructure is necessary for military readiness and daily operations. Thus, clear, well-supported, contextual information is needed on appropriate and applied use of climate information for non-experts.

Overview of current and future climate change impacts on all forested regions of Alaska.

A modeling effort aimed at estimating the balance between precipitation and evapotranspiration across Alaska.

Developed climate change scenarios for NPS-managed areas in Alaska; and a discussion tool for Alaska national park visitors.

Brief fact sheets providing climate projections for each of Alaska’s National Park Service areas.

Facilitating community driven responses to self-reliance and sustainability challenges by identifying and linking relevant information and research support.

Projections of shifts in 18 climate types linked to ecological biomes across Alaska, with emphasis on several key species. This project was expanded in Alaska Canada Biome Shift.

Alaska lags in adequate infrastructure for providing high-speed broadband access statewide. SNAP designed a broadband mapping model to connect rural locations to the existing fiber backbone.

A report to the State of Alaska on the potential long-term impacts of climate change.

An analysis of potential future climate change impacts in the Great Bear Lake region of the Northwest Territories, Canada.

Choose time periods and locations of interest, and view mapped sea ice data dating from the mid-1800s to present. Sea ice data also available for download.

Using modeling to understand potential landscape, habitat, and ecosystem change in Alaska and Northwest Canada.

This Adaptation Assessment is the first step in developing a climate adaptation plan for the Igiugig Village Council (IVC). The ultimate objective of this assessment is to create a baseline foundation of information, research, and partnerships that are locally driven and dynamic in nature.

InteRFACE is a DOE-SNAP collaboration which will research changes in sea-ice and marine ecosystems and the effects of those changes on coastal people, infrastructure, and economies.

This task force will develop strategies for helping mitigate climate change by conserving energy, educating the public, and developing longer-range plans.

Highlights the need to use the best available science in decision-making about Arctic development and conservation.

Assessing potential impacts of climate change on temperature, precipitation, water availability, vegetation, and fire regime in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.

SNAP collaborated with scientists, engineers and foresters on an experimental burn that quantified the effects of fuels reduction treatments on fire behavior.

SNAP worked with The Nature Conservancy to provide downscaled climate change projections for the Alaska North Slope Borough.

SNAP is working with UAF geophysicists to project what may happen to permafrost in the future, and to map these projections statewide.

Using climate projections to determine if Southeast Alaska is facing a climate regime shift that might alter hydropower electricity availability.

SNAP collaborated with the Alaska Department of Transportation to develop a point precipitation frequency tool using state-of-the-art climate projections to better understand the future of precipitation trends across Alaska.

How unmanned aircraft systems (UASs or drones) can be used for the surveillance of pipeline infrastructure.

An assessment of important resource values and patterns of environmental change across a large area for the Bureau of Land Management. One of 4 such studies in Alaska.

We design science communications products including pamphlets, news releases, videos, and more.

Hyper-detailed surface modeling and change detection methods have been developed to understand slope stability along critical Alaska highways at Glitter Gulch and Long Lake.

Projecting future scenarios of vegetation cover and succession trajectories due to the effects of beetles and wildfire in interior Alaska.

Understanding the connections among vegetation, the organic soil layer, and permafrost ground stability in Alaska boreal ecosystems.

UAS research confirmed that threatened Steller Sea Lion populations could be more accurately and safely surveyed at their haul-outs and rookeries.

Terrain models can be monitored for changes that affect tax records and community planning.

Unmanned aerial vehicle research resulted in the first bridge inspection and a hyper-detailed 3D model for bridge inspections in the United States.

Research and development of an in-situ sensor deployable on UAS to collect real-time data about volcanic aerosol size, concentration, and chemistry.

We develop web applications for the visualization and interpretation of SNAP data to be used by researchers, students, and other audiences.

We build websites for research-related groups affiliated with the University of Alaska. We can help you develop your research-communication goals through your website.

Developing a modeling tool for mapping future growing-season water availability for the Yukon.