Climate Change and Subsistence Impacts: A Dialogue with Elders
Opportunity for Undergraduate Researchers
Summer 2022 and 2023
Climate Change and Subsistence Impacts:
A Dialogue with Elders
Opportunity for Undergraduate Researchers
Summer 2022 and 2023
Join us for two summers of fieldwork in partnership with tribal communities in two regions of Alaska. You will build research skills, learn filmmaking practices, explore how climate changes are affecting local subsistences practices and engage in intergenerational dialogue between students and Elders. Selected students will spend 5 weeks during the 2022 season participating in a two-week intensive course and three-weeks of fieldwork in Arctic Village, Alaska. Students are also expected to commit to a second season of fieldwork (2023) in the Bristol Bay region.
Application
The University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) Department of Alaska Native Studies and Rural
Development in partnership with the University of Arizona and Haverford College is
seeking
undergraduate students from the University of Alaska to participate in a National
Science Foundation (NSF) funded research project.
Space is limited to 5 students who will engage in two summers of anthropological fieldwork working in partnership with tribal communities from two regions of the state. Students will build research and filmmaking skills and explore how climate change is affecting community subsistence practices.
Contact us
Dr. Charlene Stern
Department of Alaska Native Studies and Rural Development
University of Alaska Fairbanks
Dr. Linda B. Green
College of Social and Behavioral Sciences
The University of Arizona
