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Climate Change and Kenai Fjords National Park

Colorado State University and the National Park Service have teamed up on the NSF funded place-based climate change education partnership. Pairs of students have chosen a partner park and created a GIS analysis demonstrating change in their parks due to climate change.

Our partner park is Kenai Fjords, located on the Kenai Peninsula of Southern Alaska. We chose to focus our analysis on nunataks. Nunataks are "islands in a sea of ice," or mountain ridges and peaks that rise above the surface of glaciers. These peaks harbor unique ecosystems, and are possible refugia from the last glacial maxima. Climate change threatens to change these unique habitats, which support may rare plant specis of conservation concern in Alaska.