an interdisciplinary training and education program of the University of Alaska Fairbanks, focusing on sustainability in times of rapid change.  The Resilience and Adaptation Program prepares scholars, policy-makers, community leaders, and managers to address issues of sustainability in an integrated fashion.

Through coursework, an internship experience, thesis research, and other training, students enrolled in PhD and masters programs address a major challenge facing humanity: Sustaining the desirable features of Earth's social-ecological systems at a time of rapid change.  

The concepts of resilience, adaptation, vulnerability, and transformation serve as unifying themes in research examining global-to-local interactions. 

The program prepares students for positions of leadership in academia, government, non-government organizations, Native organizations and agency management.

Alaska Natives and members of other minority groups are encouraged to apply.

August 28-31 - RAP orientation for new students - Designed for RAP 9 students, selected faculty, alumni and advisors, the event will start at UAF, continue at Denali National Park until August 30 and culminate on August 31 with an information session and luncheon for RAP 9 and their advisors followed by an All RAP barbecue.

Weekly Rap for July, 2010  click here.

Joshua Ream, a second year RAP student in Natural Resources and Sustainability, who is studying reptiles, amphibians and their cultural impacts has been conducting his research in Wrangell.  Please read about his studies in this article in the July 15 edition of the Wrangell Sentinel.  Click here for the article.

Eight graduate students and four faculty from the Dartmouth IGERT in Polar Environmental Change are blogging about their month-long field seminar in Greenland. They are studying the effects of climate change along the terrestrial margin of the Greenland Ice Sheet near Kangerlussuaq, digging snow pits at Summit Station, and learning from Greenlandic representatives in the capital of Nuuk about the impact of envionrmental change on their country.

Please click here for their blog.  http://dartmouthigert.wordpress.com/

Please click here for Twitter.  http://twitter.com/greenIGERT

Click here to access our brochure.

Email: rap.uaf@alaska.edu       Phone:  907-474-7987          PO Box 757000, Fairbanks, AK  99775-7000