Doctoral Dissertation Research: Expanding Collaboration on Climate Change Issues: Scientific and Inupiat Eskimo Communities in Northern Alaska

本论文提案将支持一个年轻的CoPI研究，通过对土著知识和西方科学知识以及它们之间可能产生的协同作用的研究，调查阿拉斯加北极地区的气候变化问题。 这是一个示范项目，明确界定了分析方法和计划。通过经典的民族志方法（开放式访谈和参与观察）在因纽特人，研究人员将深入了解有关人民及其与环境的关系，一套核心变量的存在，决定如何因纽特人的经验和分析他们的环境，并确定土著社区和科学家之间的共同问题，以创造合作的机会。

This dissertation proposal will support research by a young CoPI to investigate the issue of climate change in Arctic Alaska through research on both indigenous knowledge and western scientific knowledge and the possible synergies that can be created between them. This is a model project, well defined with a clear statement of methodology and plan for analyses. Through classic ethnographic methodology (open-ended interviews and participant observation) among the Inupiat, the researcher will gain insight into core questions about the people and their relationship to the environment, the existence of a core set of variables that determine how the Inupiat experience and analyze their environment, and identify common issues between indigenous communities and scientist in order to create opportunities for collaboration.