Modified: May 25, 2010
Over the years, long-term residents of Fairbanks have noticed many changes in our seasonal weather patterns: winters are milder, green-up happens sooner, rivers are breaking up earlier, and summers seem drier.
On the following pages you will find graphical representations of the following climate components and biological responses.
- Climate- average yearly temperature, total yearly precipitation, total yearly snowfall, average snow depth October-April, date of Fairbanks budburst, Neenana Ice Classic Breakup, temperatures by month in Fairbanks.
- Insect populations – Larch bud-moth, Larch Sawfly, Larch Aspen-tortix, Leaf Beetle, Leaf Miner, Leaf Roller, Spear-marked Black Moth, Spruce Beetle, Spruce Budworm.
- Birds – Christmas Bird Count Species Summaries for Fairbanks.
This information was compiled and the pages designed undergraduate student Nicole Torre (Department of Biology and Wildlife, University of Alaska, Fairbanks) and funded by the Alaska Space Grant Fellowship Program through the Institute of Arctic Biology. The project is part of a NASA funded collaborative project examining climate-induced habitat change at Creamer’s Refuge in Fairbanks, Alaska led by Lila Tauzer, an interdisciplinary graduate student at University of Alaska, Fairbanks.
