Working across Western Alaska to inform landscape-level conservation

Our mission is to bring partners together to coordinate, share, and develop applied science that can ​be used to inform conservation. We promote coordination, dissemination, and development of applied science to inform landscape level conservation, including terrestrial-marine linkages, in the face of landscape scale stressors, focusing on climate change.

Our region

The Western Alaska Partnership includes over 750 miles of rapidly changing terrain, including the permafrost-dominated tundra of the Seward Peninsula, complex river delta systems of the Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers, abundant volcanoes of the Alaska Peninsula, and transitional forests of permafrost-free Kodiak Island.

Our Success Stories

  • Aleutian & Bering Sea Initiative / Northwest Boreal Partnership / Western Alaska Partnership

    Northern Connections: Bridging Indigenous Knowledge & Observation Efforts

    With funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Northwest Boreal Partnership is helping to lead a collaboration of 17 organizations, including Indigenous organizations and universities, government agencies, and non-profits. The Northern Connections program aims to support and connect Indigenous-led science and knowledge programs focused on food security, land and water stewardship, environmental changes, and climate[…..]

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  • Aleutian & Bering Sea Initiative / Northwest Boreal Partnership / Western Alaska Partnership

    Expanding Community-Based Monitoring to Address Rapid Environmental Change

    The Northern Latitudes Partnerships are collaborating with the Aleut Community of St. Paul to help expand the Indigenous Sentinels Network to provide remote Indigenous communities with tools, training, networking and convening, coordination, and new capacity for ecological, environmental, and climate monitoring. Tribes and Canadian First Nations see real potential for self-determination through data they collect,[…..]

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  • Aleutian & Bering Sea Initiative / Western Alaska Partnership

    Piloting a new approach to monitoring harmful algae in the Bering Strait

    The National Park Service contracted with us to pilot a Direct Pay Platform to enhance data collection by local experts to help monitor for Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) in the Bering Strait region. During 2020-2021 we will be reaching out to Bering Strait Tribes to inquire about local residents who might be interested in helping[…..]

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  • Aleutian & Bering Sea Initiative / Western Alaska Partnership

    Biodiversity Monitoring Synthesis completed to support the Arctic Council

    The Arctic Council is a forum promoting cooperation, coordination and interaction among the eight Arctic States, Arctic Indigenous communities and others on issues like environmental protection.  The Arctic Council’s Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (or “CAFF”) Working Group contracted with ABSI and Western Alaska Partnership to pilot an inventory of biodiversity marine monitoring efforts[…..]

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