Agnieszka Gautier is part of the Science Communications Group at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). She joined the ELOKA team in 2012 to assist with content management of its website, create visual graphics and materials, and develop news and stories about ELOKA and its community engagements. With a background in literary non-fiction writing, photography, and film, Agnieszka is interested in using multiple forms of storytelling to shed light on different perspectives and experiences.
Brendan Billingsley is a software engineer and architect who contributes to all aspects of software development for the ELOKA project with a specific emphasis on Nunaliit atlases. He is particularly interested in using his software development skills on projects that help people and the planet. Brendan has extensive experience as a full stack developer on web application projects.
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. This work was initiated and encouraged by CEC's Board of Elders as well as community members and funded by the National Science Foundation.
In this issue, read about updates to the Yup'ik Environmental Knowledge Project website, the creation of an online version of The Northern Bering Sea: Our Way of Life book, the International Data Week meeting, Ambassador visits, ELOKA travels, and Phase IV of ELOKA under renewed funding.
This issue features information about the Silalirijiit weather station in Kangiqtugaapik (Clyde River), Nunavut, Canada; the Gwich'in Place Names Workshop in Alaska; and the combined Indigenous science session at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting in December 2017 in New Orleans.
This issue discusses new National Science Foundation (NSF) awards, the Finnish Meteorological Institute, and ELOKA collaboration with the Lower Kuskokwim School District in Alaska.
This issue discusses updates to the SIZONet interface; the second Integrated Arctic Observing System (INTAROS) Workshop; the National Data Integrity Conference, where ELOKA Co-PI Colleen Strawhacker addresses measuring the value of Indigenous Knowledge data sets; ongoing collaboration with the Kangiqtugaapik (Clyde River) Community; and the Arctic Change 2017 Conference, which PI Peter Pulsifer and staff member Noor Johnson attend.
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 water conservation, and related disciplines to strategize knowledge sharing across collaborating entities.
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 issue also features updates to the ELOKA staff.
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.