Editing Kivalina, Alaska (section)

=== Sea level rise and coastal erosion ===
On numerous occasions the community has been inundated by storm surges and been forced to evacuate.<ref name=":0">Brubaker, M., Berner, J., Bell, J. N., & Warren, J. (2011). ''Climate Change in Kivalina Alaska.pdf'' (p. 70) [Funded by United States Indian Health Service Cooperative Agreement No. AN 08-X59]. ANTHC. https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/sites/default/files/public/php/26952/Climate%20Change%20HIA%20Report_Kivalina.pdf</ref>  While the risk of inundation from sea water has always existed, storms caused extensive flooding in 1970, 1976, 2002, 2004, and spurred a village-wide evacuation in 2007.<ref name=":0" />  To slow erosion, the [[United States Army Corps of Engineers|US Army Corps of Engineers]] conducted a rip-rap revetment project along the tip of the barrier island<ref name=":13"/> and adjacent to the airport.