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Contextualizing The Development Of Coastal Adaptations In Postglacial Southeast Alaska, Nicholas S. Schmuck
Contextualizing The Development Of Coastal Adaptations In Postglacial Southeast Alaska, Nicholas S. Schmuck
Anthropology
The goal of this dissertation is to improve our understanding of human population expansions into unfamiliar environments, focusing on when and how humans adapted to the rich coastal landscape of Southeast Alaska. Investigation of the peopling of this region has been overshadowed by the broader narrative that the Americas may have been first colonized by a late Pleistocene coastal migration. Refinements to local sea-level and paleoecological chronologies help contextualize the dynamic landscape that these first inhabitants might have encountered, returning focus to the archaeology of Southeast Alaska itself. This research considers existing archaeological data within the theoretical framework of Human …
Alaska Native Men's Voices: Tracking Masculinities Through Indigenous Gender Constructs, Charlene Aqpik Apok
Alaska Native Men's Voices: Tracking Masculinities Through Indigenous Gender Constructs, Charlene Aqpik Apok
Indigenous Studies
Alaska Native Men's Voices, an exploratory project, begins to make visible experiences of what it means to identify as an Indigenous male. Indigenous sovereignty includes practice of Indigenous gender knowledge systems. Self- determination of health and wellness by honoring relationships necessitates the affirmation of Alaska Native Men's voices. The complexity and diversity of Indigenous masculinity cannot be homogenized or made into one definition; these are not the goals of the research. This project aimed to articulate how Alaska Native men self- identify, what meaningful intersections of lived experiences can be drawn, and how do these inform healthy gender relations for …
Iliamna Lake Ethnogeography: Yup'ik Place Names And Sense Of Place, Yoko Kugo
Iliamna Lake Ethnogeography: Yup'ik Place Names And Sense Of Place, Yoko Kugo
Arctic and Northern Studies
This dissertation explores Iliamna Lake ethnogeography, the physical and mental understanding of the landscape, by researching Yup'ik place names and stories about these places from Iliamna Lake Yup'ik perspectives (Yupiit iingitgun). Many Yup'ik place names were forgotten after Euro-Americans arrived and introduced modern education in the early twentieth century. Some Iliamna Lake Yup'ik Elders remember Indigenous place names even though the subsistence resources in the places have declined or they no longer travel there due to environmental and cultural changes. Prompted by the declining population of Iliamna Lake Yup'ik speakers, along with their knowledge, the Iliamna Lake communities requested this …
Addressing A Complex Resource Conflict: Humans, Sea Otters, And Shellfish In Southeast Alaska, Sonia Natalie Ibarra
Addressing A Complex Resource Conflict: Humans, Sea Otters, And Shellfish In Southeast Alaska, Sonia Natalie Ibarra
Fisheries
Complex resource conflicts may benefit from the inclusion of social-ecological systems approaches that recognize the complex linkages between humans and their environment. Competition for shared shellfish resources by sea otters and humans in Southeast Alaska has caused food security concerns, cultural and economic losses, and uncertainty about the future of various fisheries, including rural subsistence-based fisheries. In rural Alaska Native communities, access to subsistence resources are critical to maintaining a way of life, with deeply rooted knowledge systems that are tied to the land, water, and natural resources. This dissertation documents Indigenous and local knowledge of Alaska Native customary and …
The Rocky Shores Of Prince Of Wales, Alaska: Intertidal Ecology, Abalone, And Community Sustainability, Ashley Bolwerk
The Rocky Shores Of Prince Of Wales, Alaska: Intertidal Ecology, Abalone, And Community Sustainability, Ashley Bolwerk
Fisheries
Rocky, nearshore ecosystems are diverse and dynamic environments that function as the link between land and sea and provide important resources for people. In this two-part thesis, I first examined rocky intertidal ecological communities to better understand biotic and abiotic drivers in this system, and then I investigated the abundance of pinto abalone (Haliotis kamtschatkana), a key subsistence resource that local community members identified as the most important because of limited harvest and drastic declines. Pinto abalone are tied to Haida subsistence, culture, and spiritual identity and have been a traditional harvest species for the Haida people for millennia. Pinto …
Summit: The Uas Writing Center's Collection Of Exceptional Academic Works For 2020/2021, Rayne Billings, Olive Brend, Jessy Goodman, Celestina Cruz, Anastasia Erickson, Berni Hein, James Hoagland, Braden File, Alicia Steiner
Summit: The Uas Writing Center's Collection Of Exceptional Academic Works For 2020/2021, Rayne Billings, Olive Brend, Jessy Goodman, Celestina Cruz, Anastasia Erickson, Berni Hein, James Hoagland, Braden File, Alicia Steiner
Summit
We at the UAS Writing Center are once again pleased to announce the completion of the second edition of our undergraduate academic writing journal, Summit: The UAS Writing Center’s Collection of Exceptional Academic Works for 2020/2021. This year’s edition is dedicated to Allison Neeland, our past Specialist, for all her support and dedication to the Writing Center. We also extend a hearty congratulation to UAS senior Celestina Cruz for winning the 2020/2021 Ernestine Hayes Award for Excellence in Academic Writing. Also included in the journal are the works of five other student writers: Rayne Billings, Anastasia Erickson, Berni Hein, James …
Uas Academic Catalog 2021/2022, N/A N/A
Uas Academic Catalog 2021/2022, N/A N/A
UAS Academic Catalogs (2011-present)
No abstract provided.
Ketchikan Cup O'News 2021-03, Bill Ayers, Michelle Lampton
Ketchikan Cup O'News 2021-03, Bill Ayers, Michelle Lampton
Ketchikan Cup O' News
No abstract provided.
Chancellor's Cabinet Updates 2021-01, Karen Carey
Chancellor's Cabinet Updates 2021-01, Karen Carey
Chancellor's Cabinet Updates
No abstract provided.
Diaries Of Archaeological Expeditions To Alaska With The Smithsonian's Aleš HrdličKa In 1936, 1937, And 1938, Douglas W. Veltre, Alan G. May
Diaries Of Archaeological Expeditions To Alaska With The Smithsonian's Aleš HrdličKa In 1936, 1937, And 1938, Douglas W. Veltre, Alan G. May
Other Publications
For three summers in the late 1930s, Dr. Aleš Hrdlička, the preeminent physical anthropologist in the United States in the first half of the 20th century, led expeditions to southwestern Alaska to investigate the earliest peopling of that region. Curator of Physical Anthropology at the U.S. National Museum at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., the acknowledged “founding father” of physical anthropology in the United States sailed north with small crews of young men—whom he called his “boys”—in the summers of 1936, 1937, and 1938 to probe ancient villages, camps, and burial places on Kodiak Island and throughout the Aleutian …
Stoking The Flame: Subsistence And Wood Energy In Rural Alaska, United States, Jennifer I. Schmidt, Amanda Byrd, Jennifer Curl, Todd J. Brinkman, Krista Heeringa
Stoking The Flame: Subsistence And Wood Energy In Rural Alaska, United States, Jennifer I. Schmidt, Amanda Byrd, Jennifer Curl, Todd J. Brinkman, Krista Heeringa
ISER Articles
Energy costs are large and increasing in rural Alaska communities, so communities are turning to renewable energy. While, many of these communities have a mixed subsistence-cash economy, the relationship between renewable energy and subsistence has not been studied. Tanana, Alaska has a biomass program and we conducted interviews with 61 households in 2017 to understand how residents perceive the program and its association with subsistence activities. We analyzed Alaska Department of Fish & Game subsistence surveys from 89 communities to estimate differences in subsistence harvest between households that harvest wood and those that do not. Interviews indicated that people who …
Applying The Environmental Identity Development Model In Place-Based Education: An Online Resource Guide, Margaret R. Blake
Applying The Environmental Identity Development Model In Place-Based Education: An Online Resource Guide, Margaret R. Blake
Education
I created an online resource guide for place-based education (PBE) informed by the Environmental Identity Development (EID) Model and research (Green et al., 2016). The EID Model provides a flexible framework for understanding how individuals develop their sense of self within and in relation to the natural world. The model is valuable as a diagnostic tool and a guide in the creation of place-based activities that support children’s play, learning, and growth in nature. The goals of this project were to create an accessible guide to understanding the EID Model and theory; to demonstrate how the EID Model and research …
The Yup'ik Relationships Of Qiluliuryaraq (Processing Intestine), Ellen Carrlee
The Yup'ik Relationships Of Qiluliuryaraq (Processing Intestine), Ellen Carrlee
Anthropology
This project explores multiple Native cultural contexts that intersect in the use and understanding of intestine. Gut (tissues of internal organs including stomach, intestine, bladder and esophagus) as a raw material was historically used by many circumpolar cultures to make items like drums, raincoats, hats, windows, sails, containers, and hunting floats. These items are abundant in museum collections, but rarely seen today in cultural practice or the art market. Intestine is a natural material that was replaced by synthetic materials, but its dual physical properties of protection and permeability are the only features replicated by plastics. Examination of intestine as …
Ethnoarchaeology Of The Middle Tanana Valley, Alaska, Gerad M. Smith
Ethnoarchaeology Of The Middle Tanana Valley, Alaska, Gerad M. Smith
Anthropology
This study explores the shifting anthropological constructs of identity for the Middle Tanana people through time. It first summarizes this theme through contemporary regional Native American internal and external influences. A discussion is then given on how these constructs became formed through historical processes. Next, it provides an in-depth look into how identity became shaped prior to the Euro-American influence through an ethnographic reconstruction. These are framed in a way to form relevant hypotheses to study the regional prehistoric archaeological record. The Historical Linguistics analytical approach used here confirms that there is very little, if any, evidence in the languages …
Environmental Impacts On Reproductive Responses Of Pacific Walruses (Odobenus Rosmarus Divergens) And Subsistence Users Of St. Lawrence Island, Jenell T. Larsen Tempel
Environmental Impacts On Reproductive Responses Of Pacific Walruses (Odobenus Rosmarus Divergens) And Subsistence Users Of St. Lawrence Island, Jenell T. Larsen Tempel
Fisheries
An interdisciplinary approach is used in understanding change and resiliency in St. Lawrence Island (SLI) resources and resource users throughout this dissertation. Historically SLI inhabitants have relied on the Pacific walrus (Odobenus rosmarus divergens) for their survival and this resource is still highly valued for cultural and dietary purposes. The responses of Pacific walruses and SLI subsistence users to environmental change was analyzed. In walruses, reproductive capacity was analyzed using an anatomical approach as well as reproductive plasticity which was determined using a physiological approach to characterize their estrus cycle. A suite of anatomical measurements were developed to characterize reproductive …
Sea Otters In Southeast Alaska: Subsistence Harvest And Ecological Effects In Seagrass Communities, Wendel W. Raymond
Sea Otters In Southeast Alaska: Subsistence Harvest And Ecological Effects In Seagrass Communities, Wendel W. Raymond
Fisheries
The recovery of sea otters (Enhydra lutris) to Southeast Alaska is a conservation success story, but their increasing population raises questions about sea otter population dynamics and the ecological role of this top-level predator. In Chapter 1, we addressed these questions by investigating patterns and population effects of subsistence sea otter harvest. Subsistence harvest reduced populations at a small scale, with potential to slow or stop population growth, but across Southeast Alaska the population continues to grow, even with an average 3% subsistence harvest rate. In Chapters 2 and 3 we investigated the ecological role of sea otters in seagrass …
A Framework For Teachers In Education For Sustainable Development For Upper Elementary Grades In The Fairbanks North Star Borough School District, Allison Wylde
Education
Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) is a holistic approach to education that seeks to create a better world for this generation and the next. The aim of ESD is for students to gain knowledge, skills, attitudes and values that will shape the planet for a sustainable future. The United Nations has adopted 17 Global Goals as a "universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity by 2030” (United Nations Development Program, 2020, para. 1). Models for sustainability look very different depending on where one lives. The context of this …
A Study Of Variation Among Side-Notched Bifaces From Northern Archaic Sites In Alaska, Kaitlyn N. Fuqua
A Study Of Variation Among Side-Notched Bifaces From Northern Archaic Sites In Alaska, Kaitlyn N. Fuqua
Anthropology
An Alaskan archaeological tradition, the Northern Archaic, (~6,000-1,000 cal years BP) is often identified based on the presence of side-notched bifaces. Variation among these bifaces, commonly referred to as projectile points, is not well understood. This study examines morphological and functional variability among a sample of 209 notched bifaces from 63 Northern Archaic sites located in central and northern Alaska. The nature and extent of variability were examined on several scales, including: 1) across ecological regions of Alaska, 2) throughout the mid-Holocene (6,000-1,000 cal years BP), and 3) within a single site (the Ratekin site, HEA-187). Morphological variation was examined …
Stakeholder Needs And Information Use In Cryospheric Hazard Planning And Response: Case Studies From Alaska, Dina Abdel-Fattah
Stakeholder Needs And Information Use In Cryospheric Hazard Planning And Response: Case Studies From Alaska, Dina Abdel-Fattah
Natural Resources
The global cryosphere is experiencing rapid change, which potentially impacts the severity and magnitude of various cryospheric hazards. Alaska is home to a number of different communities that experience cryospheric hazards. These types of hazards can have potentially devastating impacts on surrounding biodiversity, communities, and infrastructure. However, there is a gap in understanding regarding what are stakeholder information needs for different cryospheric hazards, as well as what are the resources stakeholders use to meet these needs. This dissertation investigated stakeholder use of various information products and resources in three cryospheric hazard-prone communities in Alaska, which experience glacial lake outburst flood …
It's So Good To Be Back: Explorations Of Subsistence In Alaska, James Magdanz
It's So Good To Be Back: Explorations Of Subsistence In Alaska, James Magdanz
Natural Resources
This dissertation explores some aspects of contemporary hunter-gatherer economies in Alaska, with an emphasis on quantitative approaches. Written in manuscript-style, the focus is on four decades beginning about 1980, which coincided with legal recognition of hunter-gatherer activities as "subsistence," and with expanded subsistence data collection efforts. Subsistence is viewed through four theoretical frames: socio-ecological resilience, political ecology, social networks, and food security. Principles of common-pool resource management are reviewed, as are legal frames unique to Alaska that limited possible approaches to management and resulted in a fragmented management systems. In the body of the dissertation, the first article explores trends …
The Igiugig Community Cultural Center: An Indigenous Plan In Process, Alexanna Salmon
The Igiugig Community Cultural Center: An Indigenous Plan In Process, Alexanna Salmon
Rural Development
Indigenous planning practices of the Village of Igiugig have long identified the need for a community cultural center. This research project used a community-based participatory approach to explore the type of cultural center that will best serve residents and visitors alike. Through various community meetings, semi-structured interviews of key informants, and surveys of area businesses, Igiugig was able to articulate the main functionality of the center, as well as inform a design process for and by an Indigenous community in rural Alaska. One outcome of this process is a resource guide for the Igiugig Village Council, for the remainder of …
Qikertarmiut Nunat Apertaarait Anirturluki: Preserving The Indigenous Place Names Of The Kodiak Archipelago, Dehrich A. Schmidt-Chya
Qikertarmiut Nunat Apertaarait Anirturluki: Preserving The Indigenous Place Names Of The Kodiak Archipelago, Dehrich A. Schmidt-Chya
Rural Development
This project explores Indigenous place names from the Kodiak Archipelago toward the goals of exhibiting Indigenous identity, increasing pride in Indigineity, and to document Indigenous knowledge. Sugpiaq/Alutiiq people have lived on Kodiak Island for at least 7500 years, while the first foreign contact didn’t come until about 260 years ago, in either 1761 or 1763. Within the past 257 years, Qikertarmiut (Kodiak Alutiiq) place names have been in a continuous state of jeopardy due to the linguistic and cultural assimilation of Indigenous people into Western cultures. In order to preserve the place names of the Kodiak Archipelago, I compiled and …
Zooarchaeological Analysis At 49-Rat-32: Historical Ecology And Maritime Subsistence In The Late Aleutian Period, Kevin M. Sippel
Zooarchaeological Analysis At 49-Rat-32: Historical Ecology And Maritime Subsistence In The Late Aleutian Period, Kevin M. Sippel
Anthropology
This thesis utilizes a zooarchaeological collection from 49-RAT-32 on Amchitka Island in the Western Aleutians to examine Unangax̂ subsistence strategies, and human/environment interactions from 620 ± 20 to 320 ± 20 years B.P. The materials used for this analysis were recovered from primary and secondary fill overlaying the House 1 floor. Paleoecological records within this region are limited and conflict with each other, but the cool and wet conditions of the Little Ice Age 600-100 years B.P, or C.E. 1350-1850 are believed to be in effect during the deposition of the fill materials. Marine mammal, fish, and sea urchin remains …
Human And Ecological Responses To The Northern White River Ash Eruption, Holly A. Smith
Human And Ecological Responses To The Northern White River Ash Eruption, Holly A. Smith
Anthropology
The White River Ash northern lobe (WRAn) volcanic eruption deposited a blanket of tephra (volcanic ash) along the Yukon-Alaska border ~1625 cal BP (calibrated years before present). Currently, there has been limited investigation into the effect of this natural disaster on the environment and local hunter-gatherer populations. This research seeks to analyze and explore the potential ecological and cultural responses to the WRAn event. To address this question, paired archaeological and palynological studies bracketing the WRAn were conducted. Excavations at the Forty Mile/Ch'ëdä Dëk Territorial Historic Site in the Yukon (LcVn-2) revealed a multicomponent site including cultural deposits dating to …
Science, Perception And Scale: An Interdisciplinary Analysis Of Environmental Change And Community Adaptive Capaciy, Jesse E. Grunblatt
Science, Perception And Scale: An Interdisciplinary Analysis Of Environmental Change And Community Adaptive Capaciy, Jesse E. Grunblatt
Biological Sciences
The discrepancy between science-based assessments of climate change and public acknowledgement of climate change has been extensively documented at a national level. The relationship of science-based assessments and public awareness of environmental change at the local community level is less studied. An understanding of how science-based information informs local perception is important to ensure that science communication effectively supports community decision making. This dissertation explores the gap between science-based assessments and local perception of environmental change within a framework of adaptive capacity. The research is divided into three interrelated studies that provide: 1) an assessment of community perception of local …
Uninhabited And Free From Work: An Environmental And Federal Land-Use Policy History Of Glacial Lake Atna Wilderness, Alaska, Marley M. Mclaughlin
Uninhabited And Free From Work: An Environmental And Federal Land-Use Policy History Of Glacial Lake Atna Wilderness, Alaska, Marley M. Mclaughlin
Arctic and Northern Studies
The Glacial Lake Atna area, a valley between the southern Alaska and Wrangell mountain ranges in Southcentral Alaska, despite its appearance today as remote, thickly forested, and seemingly "wild" in character, has a 10,000-year history of human habitation. The first peoples in Alaska made encampments and harvested subsistence resources on the shores of the glacial lake and its margins, while today residents and visitors to the region continue to inhabit, hunt, fish, gather berries, cut firewood, and generally subsist from the land in ways remarkably similar to their prehistoric forebears. Humans and nature have a long, shared history in the …
Alaska's Shrinking Glaciers: Integrated Glaciological Research For Hydrological, Ecological, And Environmental Education Applications, Joanna Young
Geosciences
As air temperatures in Alaska are rising, glacier melt is accelerating and affecting hydrological resources and downstream ecosystem function. The extent to which glacier loss may change hydrological regimes in coastal climates, and how that may impact nearshore marine conditions, is uncertain. Moreover, from a social-ecological standpoint, many citizens today are disconnected from these types of environmental changes, in part due to isolation from visible climate change impacts. This dissertation addresses the dual need for examining recent Alaska glacier changes and resulting hydrological and marine impacts, and for exploring education strategies that leverage glacier changes for environmental identity development. In …
Summit: The Uas Writing Center's Collection Of Exceptional Academic Works For 2019/2020, Allison Neeland, Honesty Zahnd, Alicia Steiner, Celestina Cruz, Robert Cole, Rayne Billings, Olive Brend
Summit: The Uas Writing Center's Collection Of Exceptional Academic Works For 2019/2020, Allison Neeland, Honesty Zahnd, Alicia Steiner, Celestina Cruz, Robert Cole, Rayne Billings, Olive Brend
Summit
It is with great enthusiasm that the UAS Writing Center launches our inaugural edition of Summit: The UAS Writing Center’s Collection of Exceptional Academic Works for 2019/2020. In the Writing Center, we have the privilege of seeing the wide range of talents and interests of our UAS students and the exceptional way that they communicate their research, analysis, and philosophical ruminations through essays, speeches, and written reports. The tutors in the Writing Center engage with their peers in fascinating discussions of historical events, political debates, scientific discoveries, teaching pedagogy, and business theory (to name a few). We celebrate when students …
Uas Academic Catalog 2020/2021, N/A N/A
Uas Academic Catalog 2020/2021, N/A N/A
UAS Academic Catalogs (2011-present)
No abstract provided.
"With Age Comes Wisdom:" A Qualitative Review Of Elder Perspectives On Healthy Aging In The Circumpolar North., Britteny M. Howell, Jennifer R. Peterson
"With Age Comes Wisdom:" A Qualitative Review Of Elder Perspectives On Healthy Aging In The Circumpolar North., Britteny M. Howell, Jennifer R. Peterson
Articles
No abstract provided.