AAOKH News
AAOKH Project Highlights 2024
We’ve had a fun and eventful couple of years since our last AAOKH project update, and have since refined our work and core functions in response to guidance from the AAOKH observers and steering group. Here’s a quick look at some of our stats, including number of observations and measurements collected as well as a…
New spring sea ice trail maps for Utqiaġvik whalers
We’re happy to share updated final maps (as of Thursday April 25) and photos of Utqiaġvik spring whaling trails. These maps include trail locations as well as sea ice thickness along each trail. You can use the QR codes to load these maps on your phone or other mobile device using the Avenza App. Josh…
Winter 2024 AAOKH newsletter
New children’s book Natchiq Grows Up weaves Indigenous Knowledge, Iñupiaq terms, & scientific findings about ringed seals
AAOKH puts Indigenous perspectives front and center in essay for the international Arctic Report Card
AAOKH contributed to the international 2023 Arctic Report Card supported by the US National Oceanographic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). In our essay “Nunaaqqit Savaqatigivlugich: Working with communities to observe the Arctic”, AAOKH Project Coordinator and Commuity Liaison Roberta Tuurraq Glenn-Borade took the lead to describe environmental changes reported by observers, impacts to their communities and…
Summer 2023 Newsletter
Weaving a web of knowledge: Supporting observers of the Arctic
AAOKH team members were featured recently in a news article on the Exchange for Local Observations and Knowledge of the Arctic (ELOKA) website regarding our work documenting long-term local observations in collaboration with Arctic communities, and particularly, outcomes from our 2022 Observer Meeting in November. ELOKA hosts the online database which AAOKH observations are housed…
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Kimberly Kivvaq Pikok recognized as one of 50 people changing the world!
We are so proud of UAF graduate student Kimberly Kivvaq Pikok, who was recently honored by the Explorers Club as one of 50 people changing the world! Her research at UAF with AAOKH, Tamamta, and her community of Utqiaġvik is pushing the dial on putting community first in conservation science. Keep up the good work…
Explore our new StoryMap to learn about Arctic change from the perspective of AAOKH observers
Announcing the launch of a new online product sharing ‘Insights from Coastal Arctic Indigenous observers,’ expertly curated by Roberta Tuurraq Glenn as part of her M.S. degree at University of Alaska Fairbanks. As explained in the StoryMap: “Community-based observations from AAOKH observers offer insight into the impacts of rapid Arctic environmental change from a local…