Expanding Community-Based Monitoring to Address Rapid Environmental Change

The Northern Latitudes Partnerships are collaborating with the Aleut Community of St. Paul to help expand the Indigenous Sentinels Network to provide remote Indigenous communities with tools, training, networking and convening, coordination, and new capacity for ecological, environmental, and climate monitoring.

Tribes and Canadian First Nations see real potential for self-determination through data they collect, own and manage—while agencies see the potential to collaborate with communities to address their need for observations in remote locations where rapid changes are occurring.

The Tanana Chiefs Conference has piloted efforts under the framework this summer in order to expand community-based monitoring in interior Alaska. More info can be found at: www.beringwatch.net.