Alaska Archives - Climate Attribution

Thermokarst acceleration in Arctic tundra driven by climate change and fire disturbance

Published:December 2021

Author(s):Yaping Chen, Mark J. Lara, Benjamin M. Jones, Gerald V. Frost, Feng Sheng Hu

Publisher:One Earth

This study identifies climate change as the principal driver of all thermokarst formed during 1950–2015 and predicts that climate change and wildfire will synergistically accelerate thermokarst as the Arctic transitions in this century.Read More →

Evidence for massive and recurrent toxic blooms of Alexandrium catenella in the Alaskan Arctic

Published:October 2021

Author(s):Donald M. Anderson, Evangeline Fachon, Robert S. Pickart, Peigen Lin, Alexis D. Fischer, Mindy L. Richlen, Victoria Uva, Michael L. Brosnahan, Leah McRaven, Frank Bahr, Kathi Lefebvre, Jacqueline M. Grebmeier, Seth L. Danielson, Yihua Lyu, and Yuri Fukai

Publisher:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

This study explores how warming can facilitate range expansions of harmful algal bloom species into waters where temperatures were formerly unfavorable.Read More →