Investigating Complex Human-Ecological Relationships Over Multidimensional Scales: the Sanak Islands Project

Pis Maschner和Huntley，Box，Finney和Jordon，爱达荷州立大学，犹他州立大学，阿拉斯加大学费尔班克斯大学，安提阿新英格兰研究生院之间拟议的合作，分别是通过人类学和生态学的理论和方法来研究人类在北太平洋生态系统中的作用。拟议的跨学科项目是一个雄心勃勃的研究项目，将在阿拉斯加半岛以南的萨纳克岛群岛进行。该研究小组在该地区有非常成功的工作历史，将重点研究史前、历史和现代阿留申在北太平洋生态系统的结构和功能中的作用以及可持续性问题。此外，私人投资机构作为参与者和学生与当地社区合作的良好记录，这项拟议的研究将延续这一传统。

The proposed collaboration between PIs Maschner and Huntley, Box, Finney, and Jordon, Idaho State University, Utah State University, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Antioch New England Graduate School, respectively, is to examine the role of humans in the North Pacific ecosystem through both anthropological and ecological theory and methodology. The proposed interdisciplinary project is an ambitious research undertaking that would be conducted on the Sanak Island archipelago, south of the Alaska Peninsula. The research team has a very successful history of work in this region and will focus on the role of prehistoric, historic and modern Aleut in the structure and function of the north Pacific ecosystem and issues of sustainability. In addition, the PIs have a strong record of working with local communities as participants and students and this proposed research would continue that tradition.