Yup’ik youth add Indigenous Knowledge to online atlas

Calista Education and Culture (CEC) interns from Nunapitchuk, Alaska, contribute their time to expand the Yup'ik Atlas.
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Indigenous Foods Knowledges Network (IFKN) third meeting

From June 17 to 20, members of the Indigenous Foods Knowledges Network (IFKN) joined families and children from Chickaloon Village, Alaska, the first time the community has welcomed a group of visitors to join them for the camp.
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Utqiaġvik visit

In mid-April, ELOKA scientist Matthew Druckenmiller visited Utqiaġvik, Alaska, to continue a 12-year mapping project of sea ice thickness along the community's annual network of ice trails, which are used for their spring bowhead whale hunt.
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Planning for the Arctic Report Card

In early May, Matthew Druckenmiller attended a two-day workshop at the NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) in Seattle, Washington, to participate in a coordination and planning workshop for the NOAA Arctic Report Card (ARC).
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Indigenous Foods Knowledges Network (IFKN) second meeting

Indigenous Foods Knowledges Network (IFKN) holds second meeting on Tohono O’odham Nation lands, including the University of Arizona, centering around the theme of “Indigenous Knowledge."
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A living atlas comes to life

A NSIDC project, the Exchange for Local Observations and Knowledge of the Arctic (ELOKA), partnered with SnowChange Cooperative to create the cyberinfrastructure for the first online cultural atlas of Indigenous Knowledge from Siberia.  
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Pew marine fellowship

Shari Fox's research involves spending time on the ice with hunters and elders.
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Newsletter Issue 7

ELOKA staff have been busy: taking part in various conferences, updating ELOKA products, and participating in workshops. This issue shares news from our partners and what they have been up to as well, such as the Indigenous Foods Knowledges Network visiting Tornio, Finland, to participate in a traditional fishing festival.
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Issue 6 | September 2018

This issue highlights ELOKA's support of Deg Hi’tan place names and environmental knowledge, attendance at the Gwich'in Place Names and Traditional Knowledge Workshop, participation in two events at the University of Colorado Boulder to bring more awareness of ELOKA on the campus, and news from Utqiaġvik, Alaska, where the Inuit Circumpolar Council adopted the 2018 Utqiaġvik Declaration. This…
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Issue 5 | April 2018

In this issue, read about the newly-established Indigenous Food and Data Sovereignty Network, funded by the National Science Foundation; a final report from the Arctic Horizons program; an icebreaker organized by the University of the Arctic, held in Boulder, CO; and a planning workshop called Awareness to Action that brought together experts in the natural and social sciences, arts, energy and…
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