INSTAARs, please join us for pizza, soft drinks, and coffee while building a stronger sense of community as we discuss about our needs and desires in the times we live in.

This meeting serves as both a community-building opportunity and a safe space to share perspectives on current challenges in academia and society and brainstorm priorities for ALLSTAARs’ fall initiatives. All community members are welcome – no formal speaker is scheduled, so come ready to connect and collaborate.

All meetings are in SEEC S228 12:00-1:00pm.

Feb 03 - Community discussion
Feb 17 - No event due to all-hands meeting to discuss the Federal Transition
Apr 07 - Community discussion
Apr 21 - Keith Musselman

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April 21st - Lessons learned in co-production efforts to support resilient Indigenous communities in Alaska

 Keith Musselman
Assistant Professor, Geography Department
Fellow, INSTAAR
University of Colorado Boulder

Northern communities in Alaska and Canada rely upon rivers to support diverse and complex social,
subsistence, and economic systems. As the Arctic and its rivers warm, the ultimate impacts on people, their
fisheries, and winter travel corridors are highly uncertain. Improved understanding of the ongoing and
possible future changes requires close partnership among Indigenous communities, decision makers, and
organizations and researchers from diverse scientific disciplines and knowledge systems. I will share
lessons learned in co-production with the Arctic Rivers Project, sponsored by NSF’s Navigating the New
Arctic program. Guided by an Indigenous Advisory Council, we strive to make quantitative simulated future
conditions (of climate, rivers, and fish) more tangible and applicable to community-level adaptation
planning. Through engagement with Indigenous communities in Alaska, the results are being combined
with community-level perspectives, experiences, and knowledge to craft storylines of Arctic change and
community resilience. Following the presentation, we will have an open discussion on maintaining
relationships and adapting research in the current political environment.