A five-minute podcast based on interviews with Alaska scientists and member of Alaska Native Alaskan communities about changes in sea ice patterns and their implications for the ecosystem and human communities that have depended traditionally on ice-associated animals. The importance of observing systems, using both technology and knowledgeable community observers, is highlighted.
Brief but eloquent presentation about the importance of ice and the animals that depend on ice habitat to Alaska Native culture and subsistence hunters.
Special collection of multimedia resources developed by WGBH Boston featuring Alaska Native knowledge, concerns, and the response of Alaska Native communities and cultures to climate change.
The Marine Advisory Program of Alaska Sea Grant provides this source of information on what climate change means to Alaskans and planning for adaptation to predicted changes.
National Science Foundation Advisory Committee for Environmental Research and Education. The challenges presented by the complex environmental challenges we are facing at a global scale, a call for action, and priorities and recommendations for research, environmental literacy, and engagement of "citizen scientists" in environmental research.
Bettina Kaiser, Editor. Ice is featured as one of six polar themes. The book provides an excellent summary of current sea ice research and understandings and includes teacher-tested hands-on science activities.
The extent and thickness of Arctic sea ice has diminished significantly during the first decade of the 21rst century, reaching a record low summer extent in 2007. Changes in sea ice have major impacts on Arctic marine ecosystems and on the fish and wildlife species upon which many Alaskan coastal communities and Native cultures depend.
COSEE Alaska Office: 1007 West Third Avenue, Suite 100 • Anchorage, AK 99501 • tel (907) 274-9612 • fax (907) 277-5242
email • Nora.Deans@nprb.org, Program Director or msigman@alaska.edu, Program Manager