Documenting the Cultural Geography, Biogeography, and Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) of King Island, Alaska

俄勒冈州立大学的PI Deanna Kingston提出的研究是与King Island社区一起进行的传统生态知识（TEK）的深入跨学科项目。拟进行的研究将记录国王岛因纽特人（爱斯基摩人）的TEK，包括对国王岛文化地理和生物地理的研究。这个项目不仅符合越来越多的关于TEK的文献，而且还研究了地名、记忆、文化意义和地理的社会科学理论。此外，研究人员还建议对King Island社区的年轻成员进行数据收集和分析的社会和生物科学方法的培训，他们从定义上来说是一个代表性不足的少数群体。通过这种方式，PI希望激发年轻的因纽特人对科学事业的兴趣。

The proposed research by PI Deanna Kingston, Oregon State University, is an in-depth interdisciplinary project on Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) with the community of King Island. The proposed research will document TEK of King Island Inupiat (Eskimo) including research on the cultural geography and biogeography of King Island. This project not only fits into a growing literature on TEK, but also examines social science theory on place names, memory, cultural meaning, and geography. In addition, the researcher proposes to train young King Island community members, who are by definition from an underrepresented minority group, in social and biological scientific methods of data collection and analysis. In this way the PI hopes to stimulate the interest of young Inupiat in scientific careers.