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    Quick Facts

    Medium Of InstructionsMode Of LearningMode Of Delivery
    EnglishSelf StudyVideo and Text Based

    Courses and Certificate Fees

    Fees InformationsCertificate AvailabilityCertificate Providing Authority
    USD 179yesUAF Alaska

    The Syllabus

    • Emissions, atmospheric systems and the effects of climate change on the Arctic atmosphere.
    • Temperature and precipitation
    • Snow, storms, extreme events, and air quality
    • Modeling and climate model projections, downscaled projections

    • Ocean temperature & salinity
    • Changes in Arctic sea ice concentration, formation, and thickness
    • Ocean currents
    • Ocean acidification and ocean change
    • The marine food web: algal blooms, fish, marine mammals
    • How changes in physical properties impact the entire marine ecosystem

    • Permafrost and terrestrial snow cover
    • Glacial ice
    • Vegetation
    • Wildfire impacts
    • Terrestrial animals and ecosystems
    • Birds
    • Future changes

    • History of human activity in the Arctic
    • Food security
    • Governance: local and global policymakers
    • Risk and vulnerability assessments
    • Infrastructure
    • Adaptation actions and multiple stressors

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