Guests: Abigail York, Tatiana Degai, Andy Mahoney, Priscilla Frankson, Travis Kaningok

The Arctic is warming on average twice as rapidly as the rest of the planet, which is leading to significant changes in sea ice to which local communities must respond. Beringia, a region of the Arctic encompassing US and Russian territory, is expected to experience some of the highest variability in sea ice conditions in the coming century. The ARC NAV project brings together communities and Indigenous and non-Indigenous scientists to better understand sea ice change and how we might design better and more flexible governance to adapt. In this podcast, the featured guests are Assistant Professor at University of Victoria, Tatiana Degai, Iñupiaq graduate student at Arizona State University, Priscilla Frankson who is originally from Point Hope, and St. Lawrence Island Yupik community research lead, Travis Kaningok from Gambell, with host Abigail York, a social scientist, and Professor at Arizona State University. The guests will talk about their ongoing work, impacts of sea ice change in their home communities and across the Arctic region, and the importance of Indigenous voices, Indigenous scholarship and community-driven research in Arctic science and knowledge creation.

Find out more about their research at:

https://www.arcnav.org/

Guests: Jackie Grebmeier, Lee Cooper, Mark Rauzon, Nicholas Silverson

The Grebmeier 1917469 team, as part of the Distributed Biological Observatory annual cruise, hosted an open house aboard the Canadian Coast Guard Ship, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, off the coast of Utqiaġvik on July 26th. The open house included members of the Utqiaġvik community and representatives of the North Slope Borough, Arctic Slope Regional Corporation, and Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission. The Canadian and US cruise participants disembarked the vessel via helicopter on July 27th. Five US participants, PI Jackie Grebmeier, co-PI Lee Cooper, Mark Rauzon, Brian Marx, and Nicholas Silverson stayed in Utqiaġvik and recorded an Arctic Science Session podcast with Battelle ARO Science Liaison, Lloyd Pikok Jr., before departing on July 28th.

Find out more about their research at:

https://globalocean.noaa.gov/distributed-biological-observatory/

Guests: Don Anderson, Kathy Lefebvre

HABs (Harmful Algal Blooms) are the topic of discussion for this episode and the project described here investigates the population dynamics of HAB species in the Arctic. Don Anderson, Senior Scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, studies species of toxic algae that are responsible for disrupting human and ecosystem health. Please join us in this episode to learn how HAB’s move through the food web in the Arctic, how they distribute, and how they impact living organisms. Where are the blooms, when do they happen, how long do they last, what kind of exposure occurs to the food web and toxins that are produced from the toxic algae? Tune into this episode to learn about the current HAB’s work in the Arctic and how these complicated questions are answered by academic researchers.

Find out more about their research at:

https://www2.whoi.edu/site/andersonlab/