climate change – Northern Latitudes Partnerships

Aleutian & Bering Sea Initiative / Northwest Boreal Partnership / Western Alaska Partnership

Northern Connections: Bridging Indigenous Knowledge & Observation Efforts

With funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Northwest Boreal Partnership is helping to lead a collaboration of 17 organizations, including Indigenous organizations and universities, government agencies, and non-profits. The Northern Connections program aims to support and connect Indigenous-led science and knowledge programs focused on food security, land and water stewardship, environmental changes, and climate[…..]

Expanding Community-Based Monitoring to Address Rapid Environmental Change

The Northern Latitudes Partnerships are collaborating with the Aleut Community of St. Paul to help expand the Indigenous Sentinels Network to provide remote Indigenous communities with tools, training, networking and convening, coordination, and new capacity for ecological, environmental, and climate monitoring. Tribes and Canadian First Nations see real potential for self-determination through data they collect,[…..]

New Book Released: Drivers of Landscape Change in the Northwest Boreal Region

Boreal ecosystems are inherently dynamic and continually change over decades to millennia. The braided rivers that shape the valleys and wetlands continually change course, creating and removing vast wetlands and peatlands. Glacial melt, erosion, fires, permafrost dynamics, and wind-blown loess are among the shaping forces of the landscape. As a result, species interactions and ecosystem[…..]