Integrative Graduate
Education and
Research Traineeship

Highlight

Partnerships in Conseravation

research team in Venetie, Alaska

Projects:

IGERT: Global-Local Interactions: Resilience and Adaption...

Institution:

University of Alaska at Fairbanks

Primary Strategic Goal:

Discovery: Foster research that will advance the frontiers of knowledge, emphasizing areas of greatest opportunity and potential benefit and establishing the Nation as a global leader in fundamental transformational science and engineering.

Secondary Strategic Goal:

Learning: Build the Nation's research capability through critical investments in advanced instrumentation, facilities, cyber infrastructure, and experimental tools.

Achievement/Results

The “Study of Sharing Networks to Assess the Vulnerability of Communities to Oil and Gas Development in Arctic Alaska” project was awarded the Secretary of Interior’s Partnerships in Conservation Award, for its research efforts with local communities to study subsistence systems of Alaska Natives

Address Goals

Students of the RAP were directly involved in the research, working with local residents to conduct interviews. The project modeled innovative approaches for working with indigenous people in research, and through the collaboration, produced one of the riches social-economic datasets available for rural alaska.