Announcing the launch of the AAOKH Endowment Fund

By donnahauser | April 30, 2026
Photo of person looking towards sunset at the ice edge

📢📢 We have big news!! Support AAOKH today to sustain your impact for generations! AAOKH launched the Alaska Arctic Observatory & Knowledge Hub Endowment Fund aimed at sustaining and strengthening Indigenous self-determination in Arctic research and Indigenous-led stewardship of the Alaska Arctic environment. You can support and help us build on a collaborative network of Inupiaq…

Kimberly Kivvaq Pikok defends her M.S. Thesis

By donnahauser | October 10, 2024
Kim Pikok

We are so proud of Kimberly Kivvaq Pikok, who defended her Master of Science Thesis in Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Fairbanks Alaska on October 1, 2024. Kim delivered her defense titled “Centering community and joy through co-production: Tracking the seasonal changes of Utqiagvik’s spring whaling” from her Iñupiaq homelands in Utqiagvik, Alaska with…

Newsletter Fall 2018

By Liv | November 13, 2018

The Fall 2018 newsletter is now available! Read about the work we are currently doing, our steering group, and ways to get involved with our work: AAOKH newsletter 2018

Bears on the ice in early March

By Liv | April 6, 2017

March 4, 2017 — Location Browerville, light west winds, temperature -4 F, clear and visibility was more than 8 miles. The bears are in and on the shorefast ice as they do that when south and west winds prevail.