Details
10:30 to 12:00pm
Wednesday, November 13, 2024
CIRES Auditorium: CIRES Building, 3rd Floor, Room 338
Facilitated by Clint Carroll, Center for Native and Indigenous Studies (CNAIS), University of Colorado Boulder
Arctic Indigenous organizations are increasingly leading their own research and environmental observing initiatives either independently or in collaboration with university or government researchers. This panel, featuring members of the Advisory Committee for the Exchange for Local Observations and Knowledge of the Arctic (ELOKA), will discuss the growth of community-led knowledge documentation projects across the Arctic in the context of broader environmental and social changes. ELOKA works together with Indigenous partners to design and develop online tools and interactive websites to preserve and share their knowledge, while supporting Indigenous data sovereignty and protecting sensitive information. Panelists will reflect on their own work as well as their experiences working with ELOKA, a program that has been based at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) and the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at the University of Colorado Boulder since 2007.
Panelists
Tatiana Degai, University of Victoria, British Columbia
Mellisa Maktuayaq Johnson, Arctic-Yukon-Kuskokwim Tribal Consortium
Margaret Anamaq H. C. Rudolf, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Kaare Sikuaq Erickson, Ikaagun Engagement
