Abstracts
SEARCH Open Science Meeting
October 27, 2003
Seattle, Washington, USA
Human Dimensions of Climate Change at the Bering Strait Environmental Observatory
Lee W. Cooper1, Gay Sheffield2
1Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, 10515 Research Drive, Room 100, Knoxville, TN, 37932, United States, Phone 865-974-2990, Fax 865-974-7896, lcooper@utkux.utk.edu
2Marine Mammals Department, Alaska Department of Fish and Game, 1300 College Road, Fairbanks, AK, 99709, United States, Phone 907-459-7248, Fax 907-452-6410, gay_sheffield@fishgame.state.ak.us
The major goal of the Bering Strait Environmental Observatory is to improve environmental observation capabilities in the Bering Strait region. In this sparsely populated, remote area adjacent to the Russian-U.S. boundary, local residents are heavily dependent upon subsistence food resources and they are keenly aware that changing weather, sea ice regimes, and biological cycles can have major impacts upon the viability of long established human communities.
In particular at Little Diomede Island, where we have been working to establish continuous water sampling capabilities and have cooperated with local hunters to obtain marine mammal tissues for scientific analyses from animals harvested for consumption, we could not successfully undertake any significant research without support from the local community and school. We provide information here on our research activities since 2000 that have benefited from interaction from the local community and the extent of the local community’s interest in the results of our work.
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