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Cillaput: Our Weather, Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta Weather Station Network

map of cillaput project area
ELOKA Product Types
ENVIRONMENTAL KNOWLEDGE
OBSERVATION PLATFORM
Topics
Weather
Geographic Area
United States (Alaska)
Time Period
2017 - Ongoing
Status
Ongoing

Cillaput: Our Weather provides access to current weather conditions in the villages of Chevak and Kotlik located in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta region of western Alaska. Measurements include air temperature, humidity, wind speed, snow depth, rainfall, solar radiation, and soil and surface temperatures. The weather stations were established in November 2017 and are running continuously.

Evenki Atlas

Vi on the way to the shaman mountain
ELOKA Product Types
ATLASES & MAPS
ORAL HISTORIES
Topics
Environmental features & use
Place names
Indigenous knowledge
Wildlife management & animal husbandry
Reindeer herding
Geographic Area
Russian Federation
Time Period
2004 - Ongoing
Status
Ongoing

This Atlas focuses on sharing the knowledge, wisdom, and culture of one of the Indigenous Nations of Siberia, Russian Federation, the Evenki, who live in Iyengra, Russia, and the surrounding taiga.

Koyukuk River Traditional Place Names Atlas

Koyukuk atlas screenshot
ELOKA Product Types
ATLASES & MAPS
Topics
Environmental features & use
Place names
Indigenous knowledge
Geographic Area
United States (Alaska)
Status
Ongoing

The Koyukuk River Traditional Place Names Atlas is an online atlas used to collect and preserve the rich knowledge and culture of the Koyukon people of Alaska, the traditional place names, and subsistence use areas along the Koyukuk River from the villages of Koyukuk, Huslia, and Hughes.

Local Observations from the Seasonal Ice Zone Observing Network (SIZONet) and Alaska Arctic Observatory & Knowledge Hub (AAOKH)

ELOKA Product Types
ENVIRONMENTAL KNOWLEDGE
OBSERVATION PLATFORM
Topics
Community-based monitoring
Environmental features & use
Place names
Trails
Indigenous knowledge
Marine conditions
Ocean currents
Polynyas
Sea ice
Weather
Wildlife observations
Marine mammals
Birds
Fish
Geographic Area
United States (Alaska)
Time Period
2006 - Ongoing
Status
Ongoing

This data set contains observations of sea ice, weather, and wildlife collected by Indigenous Inupiaq and Yup'ik sea ice experts in several communities along the northern and western coasts of Alaska, beginning in 2006. This information is generously shared with the public by the observers and the communities within which the observers reside.

Nunaput: Our Land, Community Atlas for Chevak, Alaska

Nunaput public atlas screenshot
ELOKA Product Types
ATLASES & MAPS
ENVIRONMENTAL KNOWLEDGE
Topics
Community-based monitoring
Environmental features & use
Place names
Plants
Geographic Area
United States (Alaska)
Time Period
2017 - Ongoing
Status
Ongoing

The Nunaput Atlas is a community-driven, interactive, online atlas for the Chevak (Alaska) Traditional Council and Chevak community members to create a record of observations, knowledge, and to share stories about their land. The Nunaput Atlas is being developed in collaboration with the community and the US Geological Survey.

PISUNA-net

Fishermen's catch - PISUNA-net
ELOKA Product Types
ENVIRONMENTAL KNOWLEDGE
OBSERVATION PLATFORM
Topics
Community-based monitoring
Food security and sovereignty
Indigenous knowledge
Wildlife management & animal husbandry
Reindeer herding
Wildlife observations
Marine mammals
Birds
Fish
Geographic Area
Greenland
Time Period
2009 - Ongoing
Status
Ongoing

Building from the development of the Alaska Arctic Observatory & Knowledge Hub (AAOKH) community observations platform, the PISUNA-Net observations database was developed to record, archive, and share Indigenous and local knowledge and expertise on natural resources and resource use on the western and northern coasts of Greenland. Observations begin in May 2009 through the present.

Silalirijiit Project: Kangiqtugaapik (Clyde River), Nunavut, Canada, Weather Station Network

Akuliaqattak Station
ELOKA Product Types
OBSERVATION PLATFORM
Topics
Weather
Geographic Area
Canada (Nunavut Territory)
Time Period
2009 - Ongoing
Status
Ongoing
This project seeks to understand local and regional weather patterns and weather changes, and aims to identify weather and other environmental information that are of most importance and use to people in the Clyde River area.

Yup'ik Environmental Knowledge Project

Lawrence Edmund, Mark John, and Denis Sheldon at Akuluraq Slough, August 2011.
ELOKA Product Types
ENVIRONMENTAL KNOWLEDGE
ORAL HISTORIES
Topics
Community-based monitoring
Environmental features & use
Place names
Indigenous knowledge
Oral history
Stories
Youth involvement
Geographic Area
United States (Alaska)
Status
Ongoing

Explore Yup'ik environmental knowledge of their land, named places, maps, language and values.

Since 2000, the Calista Elders Council (CEC) staff has worked with elders from Bering Sea coastal communities to document Yup'ik place names. Elders have been eager to teach young people their rich history and named places of their homeland, including camp and settlement sites, rivers, sloughs, rocks, ponds, even sandbars and underwater channels. More than 3,000 names have been identified with Yup'ik views on the importance of place names, the land, values, and language.

Yup'ik Environmental Knowledge Project Atlas

Screenshot of Yup'ik Atlas - annual temperature page
ELOKA Product Types
ATLASES & MAPS
ENVIRONMENTAL KNOWLEDGE
ORAL HISTORIES
Topics
Community-based monitoring
Environmental features & use
Place names
Indigenous knowledge
Oral history
Stories
Youth involvement
Geographic Area
United States (Alaska)
Time Period
2000 - ongoing
Status
Ongoing

Since 2000, Calista Education and Culture (CEC) has worked with elders from the Alaskan communities of Kotlik, Emmonak, Alakanuk, Nunam Iqua, Newtok, Tununak, Toksook Bay, Nightmute, Chefornak, Kwigillingok, and Kongiganak to document Yup'ik place names.

Atlas of Community-Based Monitoring: Inuit Mental Health and Wellness

Screenshot of the Atlas of Community-Based Monitoring in a Changing Arctic
ELOKA Product Types
ATLASES & MAPS
Topics
Health
Geographic Area
Canada (Nunavut Territory)
Status
Complete

This module of the Atlas of Community-Based Monitoring in a Changing Arctic (ArcticCBM) offers an inventory of programs that focus on Inuit mental health and wellness across the circumpolar region. It is based on programs identified by the Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada (ICC-Canada) in its Circumpolar Inuit Health Priorities: Best Health Practices and Research report (2012), as well as additional mental health and wellness programs identified in 2014 and 2015.

 
 
ELOKA is generously supported by the US National Science Foundation through awards 2032423, 2032417, 2032419, and 2032445.