SNAP Stories
SNAP seeks a Software Developer & Geospatial Data Analyst to join our growing team. We are scientists, designers, communications specialists, data scientists, and programmers who apply University research to improve our understanding of Alaska’s changing climate. Application Deadline: 11/29/2020 at 11:55pm Alaska Time.
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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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