resilience – Alaska Sea Grant

Lessons from Newtok

By Tom Moran | June 19, 2026

Two young Alaska Native women hold up a stained glass window. The window is made of around a dozen pieces of stained glass in blues and greens, some of which incorporate faint images and writing.

Towns don’t get much more different than Newtok, Alaska, and Provincetown, Massachusetts. But the recently relocated Yup’ik village near the Bering Sea coast and the resort town on the tip…

Anchorage’s green spaces focus of ARCA workshop

By Kyle Kolda | December 8, 2025

A woman kneels down holding a smoking censer above a pile of objects on the ground: strings of red, pink and yellow flowers surrounding a platter holding a glass and several dishes and baskets, filled with unidentifiable substances. Around her a small crowd of people watch her conduct the ceremony. They are all standing in a small grassy area next to buildings in an urban setting.

To many Anchorage residents, Fish Creek is an afterthought, mostly siphoned through culverts below strip malls and parking lots. But for some in Anchorage, the aboveground stretches of the creek…