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

这项论文提案将支持一名年轻的COPI通过研究本土知识和西方科学知识以及两者之间可能产生的协同效应来调查北极阿拉斯加的气候变化问题。这是一个模型项目，明确说明了分析的方法和计划。通过对因努皮亚特人的经典人种学方法(开放式访谈和参与者观察)，研究人员将深入了解关于人及其与环境的关系的核心问题，了解决定因努皮亚特人如何体验和分析其环境的一组核心变量的存在，并确定土著社区和科学家之间的共同问题，以创造合作机会。

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.