monitoring – Northern Latitudes Partnerships

Aleutian & Bering Sea Initiative / Northwest Boreal Partnership / Western Alaska Partnership

Northern Connections: Bridging Indigenous Knowledge & Observation Efforts

With funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Northwest Boreal Partnership is helping to lead a collaboration of 17 organizations, including Indigenous organizations and universities, government agencies, and non-profits. The Northern Connections program aims to support and connect Indigenous-led science and knowledge programs focused on food security, land and water stewardship, environmental changes, and climate[…..]

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,[…..]

Piloting a new approach to monitoring harmful algae in the Bering Strait

The National Park Service contracted with us to pilot a Direct Pay Platform to enhance data collection by local experts to help monitor for Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) in the Bering Strait region. During 2020-2021 we will be reaching out to Bering Strait Tribes to inquire about local residents who might be interested in helping[…..]

Biodiversity Monitoring Synthesis completed to support the Arctic Council

The Arctic Council is a forum promoting cooperation, coordination and interaction among the eight Arctic States, Arctic Indigenous communities and others on issues like environmental protection. The Arctic Council’s Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (or “CAFF”) Working Group contracted with ABSI and Western Alaska Partnership to pilot an inventory of biodiversity marine monitoring efforts[…..]