Projects
We work with many partners in many areas
Our research and resource-management projects focus on one or more areas of expertise, including science communication, data visualization and analysis, research collaboration, and scenario planning.
Image | Title | Summary | expertise_area_hfilter | category_hfilter | project_status_hfilter |
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![]() | Alaska Garden Helper | 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. | data-visualization-and-analysis science-communication | garden project | completed |
![]() | Alaska-Canada climate-biome shifts | 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. | data-visualization-and-analysis research-collaboration | biome climate project | completed |
![]() | ALFRESCO and habitat research | ALFRESCO simulates responses of subarctic and boreal vegetation to climatic changes. | data-visualization-and-analysis | alfresco habitat project | ongoing |
![]() | Arctic climate change impacts on ecosystem services and society | Relationships between climate change and availability of subsistence resources. Creating scenarios of how and where resources may be available in the future. | research-collaboration scenario-planning | climate ecosystem-services project | ongoing |
Arctic Data Collaborative (ARDAC) | ARDAC houses Arctic data sets that can be be utilized in their current form for decision-making and project planning. | data-visualization-and-analysis research-collaboration | data-visualization project research-collaboration | ongoing | |
![]() | Arctic sea ice: satellite observations, climate model performance, future scenarios | Using technology to investigate the downward trend of Arctic sea ice. | data-visualization-and-analysis scenario-planning | modeling project remote-sensing scenario-planning sea-ice | completed |
![]() | Arctic shipping data synthesis | Understanding risks presented by marine shipping traffic on ecosystem services. | data-visualization-and-analysis scenario-planning | project transportation | completed |
![]() | Arctic-EDS | 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. | data-visualization-and-analysis | infrastructure project transportation | ongoing |
![]() | Assessment and mapping of riverine hydrokinetic resources in the continental US | Assessment of the riverine hydrokinetic energy resource in the contiguous 48 states and Alaska, excluding tidal waters. | research-collaboration | hydrology project river | completed |
![]() | Chugach climate change scenario planning | An assessment of future scenarios in the Chugach National Forest given ongoing climate change, social change, and economic change. | research-collaboration scenario-planning | climate project scenario-planning | completed |
![]() | Climate change impacts on forested ecosystems of Alaska | Overview of current and future climate change impacts on all forested regions of Alaska. | scenario-planning | climate forest project | completed |
![]() | Climate change impacts on water availability in Alaska | A modeling effort aimed at estimating the balance between precipitation and evapotranspiration across Alaska. | data-visualization-and-analysis scenario-planning | climate freshwater project | completed |
![]() | Climate change scenario planning for Alaska Region National Park Service Units | Developed climate change scenarios for NPS-managed areas in Alaska; and a discussion tool for Alaska national park visitors. | scenario-planning science-communication | climate national-parks project scenario-planning | completed |
![]() | Climate change summary reports for National Parks, Preserves and Monuments | Brief fact sheets providing climate projections for each of Alaska’s National Park Service areas. | data-visualization-and-analysis science-communication | climate national-parks project research-collaboration | completed |
![]() | Community partnerships for self-reliance | Facilitating community driven responses to self-reliance and sustainability challenges by identifying and linking relevant information and research support. | research-collaboration | community project | ongoing |
![]() | Connecting Alaska’s landscapes into the future | 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. | research-collaboration scenario-planning | biome climate project | completed |
![]() | Geospatial modeling for Alaska broadband | 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. | data-visualization-and-analysis research-collaboration | communication modeling project | completed |
![]() | Governor’s Subcabinet on Climate Change | A report to the State of Alaska on the potential long-term impacts of climate change. | research-collaboration scenario-planning | climate project | completed |
![]() | Great Bear Lake climate change analysis | An analysis of potential future climate change impacts in the Great Bear Lake region of the Northwest Territories, Canada. | research-collaboration scenario-planning | climate project | completed |
![]() | Historical Sea Ice Atlas | 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. | data-visualization-and-analysis science-communication | project remote-sensing sea-ice | completed |
![]() | IEM: An Integrated Ecosystem Model for Alaska and Northwest Canada | Using modeling to understand potential landscape, habitat, and ecosystem change in Alaska and Northwest Canada. | research-collaboration scenario-planning | modeling project | ongoing |
![]() | Igiugig Village Climate Change Adaptation Assessment | 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. | adaptation-plan community project resiliency | completed | |
![]() | Interdisciplinary Research for Arctic Coastal Environments (InteRFACE) | 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. | research-collaboration | hydrology infrastructure marine-shipping project scenario-planning sea-ice | ongoing |
![]() | Interior Issues Council Climate Change Taskforce | This task force will develop strategies for helping mitigate climate change by conserving energy, educating the public, and developing longer-range plans. | scenario-planning science-communication | climate project | completed |
![]() | Managing for the Future in a Rapidly Changing Arctic: a Report to the President | Highlights the need to use the best available science in decision-making about Arctic development and conservation. | data-visualization-and-analysis science-communication | climate policy project | completed |
MapVentures | We build mapping applications to support geospatial data efforts. | data-visualization-and-analysis | communication project | ongoing | |
![]() | National Petroleum Reserve: Alaska climate change analysis | Assessing potential impacts of climate change on temperature, precipitation, water availability, vegetation, and fire regime in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska. | research-collaboration scenario-planning | climate oil-and-gas project | completed |
![]() | Nenana Ridge experimental burn | SNAP collaborated with scientists, engineers and foresters on an experimental burn that quantified the effects of fuels reduction treatments on fire behavior. | data-visualization-and-analysis research-collaboration | project wildfire | completed |
![]() | North Slope climate analysis | SNAP worked with The Nature Conservancy to provide downscaled climate change projections for the Alaska North Slope Borough. | data-visualization-and-analysis research-collaboration | climate project | completed |
![]() | Permafrost dynamics modeling in Alaska using a high spatial resolution dataset | SNAP is working with UAF geophysicists to project what may happen to permafrost in the future, and to map these projections statewide. | data-visualization-and-analysis scenario-planning | modeling permafrost project | completed |
![]() | Potential effects of climate change on Sitka hydropower | Using climate projections to determine if Southeast Alaska is facing a climate regime shift that might alter hydropower electricity availability. | research-collaboration | hydropower project | completed |
![]() | Precipitation Projections for Alaska Infrastructure | 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. | data-visualization-and-analysis research-collaboration | climate infrastructure modeling precipitation project transportation | completed |
![]() | Protecting transportation infrastructure using Unmanned Aircraft Systems | How unmanned aircraft systems (UASs or drones) can be used for the surveillance of pipeline infrastructure. | research-collaboration science-communication | drone project remote-sensing transportation | completed |
![]() | Rapid Ecoregional Assessments for Alaska | 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. | research-collaboration | climate project | completed |
![]() | Science Communications Support | We design science communications products including pamphlets, news releases, videos, and more. | science-communication | communication project | ongoing |
![]() | Slope Stability Modeling | 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. | infrastructure project remote-sensing temperature | completed | |
![]() | Socio-ecological characteristics of disturbance in Alaska | Projecting future scenarios of vegetation cover and succession trajectories due to the effects of beetles and wildfire in interior Alaska. | scenario-planning | forest project wildfire | ongoing |
![]() | State change and vulnerability in the Alaska boreal forest | Understanding the connections among vegetation, the organic soil layer, and permafrost ground stability in Alaska boreal ecosystems. | data-visualization-and-analysis research-collaboration | forest project | completed |
![]() | Steller sea lion surveys | UAS research confirmed that threatened Steller Sea Lion populations could be more accurately and safely surveyed at their haul-outs and rookeries. | drone habitat project wildlife | completed | |
![]() | Tax information management using topographical Information | Terrain models can be monitored for changes that affect tax records and community planning. | data-visualization-and-analysis | community modeling patent project | completed |
![]() | UAV inspection of the Placer River Trail bridge through image-based 3D modeling | Unmanned aerial vehicle research resulted in the first bridge inspection and a hyper-detailed 3D model for bridge inspections in the United States. | data-visualization-and-analysis | drone infrastructure modeling project transportation | completed |
![]() | Volcanic ash sensing | Research and development of an in-situ sensor deployable on UAS to collect real-time data about volcanic aerosol size, concentration, and chemistry. | data-visualization-and-analysis | modeling patent project | completed |
![]() | Web Applications | We develop web applications for the visualization and interpretation of SNAP data to be used by researchers, students, and other audiences. | data-visualization-and-analysis science-communication | communication project | ongoing |
Website Creation | 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. | science-communication | communication design project | ongoing | |
![]() | Yukon water availability analysis | Developing a modeling tool for mapping future growing-season water availability for the Yukon. | data-visualization-and-analysis research-collaboration | freshwater project | completed |