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The ALCC has asked the U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution (U.S. Institute) to assist them in engaging a third-party neutral facilitator who can work with the steering committee to identify key landscape scale resource management needs common to many of the ALCC partners. The overall goals of this project are twofold. One is to identify key future landscape scale resource management and science needs that are common to many of the ALCC partners, and in doing so, increase understanding of future landscape scale information needs among the ALCC steering committee members.
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Work completed by ANTHC has identified climate-related active and potential human health threats in three thematic areas: 1) Permafrost changes; 2) Habitat changes; 3) Impacts on wildlife. Rural villages in Arctic Alaska have requested, and received in-depth environmental health assessments, and adaptation strategies are in development. In response to these findings, ANTHC has developed the RAMP, and is collaborating with UA to develop relevant monitoring and surveillance tools for the thematic areas identified. This includes a training curriculum for village residents who will be observing, monitoring the RAMP technology, and collecting specimens. In addition, the UA will be funded to develop laboratory technology...
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The Arctic, including Alaska, has warmed significantly over the last five decades, withwidespread changes in every region, particularly in Alaska’s Arctic slope, north of the BrooksRange. Prominent changes include changes of ocean temperature, increase in permafrosttemperature in many regions, warmer winter seasons, with longer and warmer snow-freeseasons, warmer freshwater temperatures, movement of plant and wildlife species previouslyfound in more southern regions of Alaska into the Arctic slope region, changes in summer andwinter ranges of terrestrial mammal species, and the extension of more southern host specieswith their zoonotic pathogens into more northern regions of Alaska and Canada. These changeshave...
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The identification of heavy metals such as mercury, and highly persistent lipophilic anthropogenic contaminants in the circumpolar food chain of all Arctic countries has raised awareness in wildlife scientists, and human health authorities on the need to better understand the possible climate-mediated influence on atmospheric and ocean transport mechanisms on the exposure of biota, including humans, in the Arctic. Certain contaminants are known to interfere with immune response in both humans and wildlife.Researchers developed a village climate and health impact assessment tool; identified climate change vulnerabilities for the Native Village of Selawik and developed a climate adaptation strategy; developed biomonitoring...
This report is the result of an assessment of science and information needs identified by land and resource managers working in Alaskan Arctic, with a focus on needs related to expected changes in climate. The primary objective of the report is to determine how the Arctic LCC can best support and strengthen the connection between science and management in the area of climate change.
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Rural Arctic communities are vulnerable to climate change and residents seek adaptive strategies that will protect public health. In the Inupiat community of Selawik, climate change is impacting the weather, land, river, wildlife, plants, and the lives of the people who live there. This report identifies health concerns related to food and water security and community infrastructure. This report documents these issues as described by the local people and interpreted through the lens of public health. It is the fifth report in a series describing climate change in Northwest Alaska.
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These maps were created by Arctic LCC staff and depict the general boundaries of the Arctic LCC. Maps and boundaries are subject to review and should not be used within a legal context. No warranty expressed or implied is made regarding the accuracy or utility of the data and information on any other system or for general or scientific purposes.