SNAP Stories
As summer heat fades and autumn begins these SNAP resources can help you prepare for colder weather across the state.
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A climate dataset representing historic and future conditions in Alaska, the Yukon, and Northwest Territories is available on Amazon’s Public Dataset Program.
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SNAP worked with the Wildlife Conservation Society and the Aleutian and Bering Sea Islands LCC to better understand the risks presented by marine shipping traffic on the ecosystem services.
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This 13-minute video explains the importance and relevance of computer modeling in making sense of climate change.
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A web tool developed by SNAP helps residents of communities in Alaska and western Canada to see how global climate change could affect their regions.
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Observers from communities in Interior Alaska documented climate-related environmental conditions affecting their travel to areas used for hunting, fishing, trapping, and gathering.
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“State of Change” is the fruit of a three-year collaboration between SNAP and the National Park Service.
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Using the Alaska Wildfires tool developed by SNAP, users can view current fire locations and explore past wildfires dating back to 1940.
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Use the Introduction to SNAP Climate Data tool to explore the basics of climate modeling and how it’s applied to SNAP’s data.
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Like the foundation of a house, the construction of a climate model is the product of thousands of small choices.
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It was summer 2019, and the planet’s far North was on fire. Fires in these places are normal, but—as studies here at the University of Alaska show—they are also abnormal.
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