New graduate traineeship for Indigenous fisheries, marine sciences

January 19, 2021

Graduate student Elizabeth Mik’aq Lindley (Yup’ik) holds a sockeye salmon at the Alaska Department of Fish and Game lower Kuskokwim sonar site in 2017. Photo courtesy of Elizabeth Mik’aq Lindley / ADF&G.

UAF’s Tamamta graduate traineeship program seeks to broaden and diversify graduate education in fisheries and marine sciences through greater inclusion of Indigenous peoples and knowledge. The program provides funded fellowships to Indigenous and allied M.S. and Ph.D. students, and also welcomes graduate students who do not need fellowship support but who would like to join the team as scholars.

An informational webinar about Tamamta will be offered on Friday, Jan. 22, from noon-1:30 p.m. via Zoom. To attend, please register at the Tamamta website.

Tamamta is part of the College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences and was built by a cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary group of faculty from CFOS, the College of Rural and Community Development, the College of Natural Science and Mathematics, and the Center for One Health Research. The National Science Foundation is providing $3 million in funding through its National Research Trainee Program, which is designed to encourage innovation in science, technology, engineering and mathematics graduate education training. Funding is also being provided by NSF’s Navigating the New Arctic initiative.

Applications for the program are due Feb. 15.

For more information, contact Courtney Carothers at clcarothers@alaska.edu.