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The State Of The Icelandic Prevention Model (Ipm) In Alaska A Statewide Landscape Assessment Of Community Readiness, Implementation, And The Future Of Prevention, Travis Hedwig, Eduardo Piqueiras, Álfgeir Kristjánsson,
The State Of The Icelandic Prevention Model (Ipm) In Alaska A Statewide Landscape Assessment Of Community Readiness, Implementation, And The Future Of Prevention, Travis Hedwig, Eduardo Piqueiras, Álfgeir Kristjánsson,
Reports
The future of prevention in Alaska is already taking shape in its communities. Across the state, coalitions, youth-serving organizations, schools, and behavioral health partners are building locally grounded approaches to youth well-being, informed by growing experience with the Icelandic Prevention Model (IPM). Their conditions vary in readiness, organizational capacity, funding stability, and access to local data, but their direction is shared: stronger, community-driven prevention. Alaska’s opportunity is to connect these efforts through durable statewide infrastructure that builds on local strengths and preserves community ownership. The IPM supports this work through a data-informed, community-driven approach grounded in the understanding that youth …
Evaluating Sustainability Policies By Measuring Well-Being: Evidence From Mongolia, Amgalan Batsuuri
Evaluating Sustainability Policies By Measuring Well-Being: Evidence From Mongolia, Amgalan Batsuuri
Natural Resources
The study examines the relationship between sustainability policies and resident well-being within Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia's Ger district, through a case study of the 19th subdistrict of the Bayanzurkh district. The primary research question is: Are well-being attributes being used to determine the efficacy of sustainability policies? Using mixed methods, survey questionnaires, interviews, and focus groups with 30 participants across three stakeholder groups (Ger district residents, subdistrict officials, and district officials), the research identified 15 key well-being attributes. The identified well-being attributes were used to assess whether these attributes serve as efficacy determinants in sustainability policies across national, municipal, and district governance …
Cultivating And Sustaining Community Engagement At The Kachemak Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Rose Masui
Cultivating And Sustaining Community Engagement At The Kachemak Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Rose Masui
Student Projects for Graduate Degrees
The Kachemak Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve (KBNERR) was established in Homer, Alaska in 1999 with an overarching purpose of conducting community relevant place-based research, education, training, and outreach within our region. The need to have the Reserve reflective of community needs was also captured within KBNERR’s 2021-2026 Management Plan. As of 2024, the process for engaging the community both to share information and to inform focus areas at the Reserve is not being implemented in a unified approach. Since 2021, three-quarters of the positions at KBNERR have experienced staffing turnovers. A need to re-establish the role the community plays …
Tradition And Transition On The Seward Peninsula: Bridging The Gap Between Potential Mining Development And Indigenous Livelihoods, Ridwan Akogun
Tradition And Transition On The Seward Peninsula: Bridging The Gap Between Potential Mining Development And Indigenous Livelihoods, Ridwan Akogun
Student Publications
Alaska’s Seward Peninsula communities are at a pivotal intersection of natural resource development and Indigenous subsistence livelihoods. As the demand for graphite, a vital component in the transition towards a decarbonized economy increases, a proposal has been made to establish a large graphite mine 60km North of Nome. Thus, these communities find themselves at the forefront of balancing economic development with environmental stewardship and cultural preservation. There remains a notable policy gap in accounting for the impacts of extractive industries on livelihoods in this region and this research integrates specific spatial and temporal land-use data to inform adaptive recommendations.
Comparative Research Of Rural Drinking Water Supply In Mongolia And Alaska, Batsuren Ganbat
Comparative Research Of Rural Drinking Water Supply In Mongolia And Alaska, Batsuren Ganbat
Student Projects for Graduate Degrees
This comparative research project on rural drinking water supply in Mongolia and Alaska aimed to understand the challenges, dynamics, and best practices surrounding water access and utilities in rural communities within these regions. Through meticulous planning and execution, three cities in Mongolia and three cities in Alaska were selected as primary areas of study to capture the nuances and variations inherent in water supply dynamics across diverse geographical and socio-economic contexts. The objectives included investigating rural water supply systems, developing evidence-based recommendations, and fostering knowledge exchange and collaboration. A comprehensive literature review provided insights into existing scholarly works relevant to …
Business Plan Development For An Automotive Restoration Company, Blake Howard Jones
Business Plan Development For An Automotive Restoration Company, Blake Howard Jones
Student Projects for Graduate Degrees
The Auto Restoration Business Plan Development project arises from a pressing problem and a compelling opportunity within the auto restoration industry. With a resurgence in interest in classic and vintage vehicles, there is a growing demand for professional auto restoration services and a need for entrepreneurs to navigate this intricate landscape. This project aims to address the lack of comprehensive business planning resources tailored to the unique requirements of auto restoration ventures, thereby fostering successful startups, and enhancing the industry's overall quality. The importance of this endeavor is underscored by the transformative impact it can have on aspiring auto restoration …
Integrated Land Use Planning For Sustainable Communities On The Seward Peninsula; An Assessment Of Potential Mining Development And Indigenous Livelihoods, Ridwan Akogun
Student Projects for Graduate Degrees
Graphite is a critical mineral in pursuing the goal of “decarbonizing the economy” in the U.S. and currently, the U.S. imports 100% of its graphite from other countries. The most significant demand driver for graphite is lithium-ion batteries, which powers carbon-free technologies to reduce global warming. The recent discovery of a substantial, high-grade graphite deposit in Alaska’s Seward Peninsula has triggered the proposal of a large-scale graphite mining project and generated immense government support for local production. It is critical to examine the potential socio-economic and environmental impacts of the proposed mining project on project- zone communities of Nome, Teller, …
Climate Futures: Classroom Engagements For Imagining Otherwise, Elaine Alvey
Climate Futures: Classroom Engagements For Imagining Otherwise, Elaine Alvey
Faculty and Staff
Given the realities currently at hand, it is easy to imagine the worst-case scenario climate futures, to become paralyzed by climate grief or to disengage all together. Inspired by pedagogical engagements with imagination and drawing on foundational geography skills, this three-day mini-unit invites secondary students to first analyze localized impacts of climate change, and then look to examples of positive climate futures before finally imagining for their own community’s resilient climate future.
Chancellor’S Cabinet Updates 2022-11-21, Dr. Karen Carey
Chancellor’S Cabinet Updates 2022-11-21, Dr. Karen Carey
Chancellor's Cabinet Updates
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Look North Tokyo: Japanese Business In Post-World War Ii Alaska, Pierce A. Bateman
Look North Tokyo: Japanese Business In Post-World War Ii Alaska, Pierce A. Bateman
Arctic and Northern Studies
Since the early 1950s, Alaska and Japan have engaged in both economic and cultural exchanges that have made lasting impacts on the 49th State. For the nearly 75-year-long relationship, Japan was Alaska's number one trade partner by the measure of its exports, worth at its height in 1992, well over $3 billion. From products like timber, fish, and natural gas, Alaska had the raw resources that Japan lacked, while Japan had the industrial economy that Alaska needed. Diminishing public and scholarly interest of Alaska-Japan relations, however, has resulted in the neglect of this recent period of Alaska's economic and diplomatic …
Arts And Science Integration On The Kaleidoscope School Nature Trail And Greenhouse, Sara Boersma
Arts And Science Integration On The Kaleidoscope School Nature Trail And Greenhouse, Sara Boersma
Education
The Kaleidoscope KSAS Nature Trail and Greenhouse provide a gateway to pathways of understanding the immediate natural space surrounding our school. In addition, students are provided arts and science education informed by a critical place-based pedagogy. This emphasizes the activist, restoring possibilities of art making and affirming the need for students to become involved in learning outside the physical school building (Graham, 2003). The possibilities ofunderstandings and stewardship are encouraged through arts and science integration and experiences on the nature trail and greenhouse. Through these experiences, students can gain a sense of awareness and understanding oftheir natural environment and this …
Guide To Sources For The Study Of The 1971 Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act: Volume 1 History And Archival Collections, Karen Brewster, William Schneider, Joan Antonson
Guide To Sources For The Study Of The 1971 Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act: Volume 1 History And Archival Collections, Karen Brewster, William Schneider, Joan Antonson
AHS ANCSA Committee
December 18, 2021is the fiftieth anniversary of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA). The settlement of 44 million acres of land and close to a billion dollars is the largest settlement of Native land claims in American history. The Act created a new reality for Alaska Natives with greater political, social and economic power, and changed the way that the United States government settles Native land claims. The Act produced a corporate structure designed to provide economic incentives for twelve regional corporations to build equity for their shareholders. Since passage, ANCSA has transformed the economic landscape of Alaska with …
Sowing Change Through The Elderly Herbalist: The Country Of The Pointed Firs (1896) And Rosemary's Baby (1968), Cheyenne Alexis Corty
Sowing Change Through The Elderly Herbalist: The Country Of The Pointed Firs (1896) And Rosemary's Baby (1968), Cheyenne Alexis Corty
English
This thesis focuses on Sarah Orne Jewett and Roman Polanski's elderly herbalists as reactionary tropes to feminist movements in either era. Jewett creates elderly herbalist and town scholar, Almira Todd in Country of the Pointed Firs (1896), and Polanski personifies author Ira Levin's Satanist cult member Minnie Castevet (Ruth Gordon) in his film Rosemary's Baby (1969). Jewett's Almira Todd focuses on the positives and negatives inherent within her profession--holistic healer and town matriarch--placing her in the role of the benevolent herbalist. Polanski's Minnie Castevet, in contrast, presents a malevolent herbalist, one who seeks to harm the title character of the …
Development Of Scalable Energy Distribution Models To Evaluate The Impacts Of Renewable Energy On Food, Energy, And Water System Infrastructures In Remote Arctic Microgrids Of Alaska, Justus Karenzi
Engineering
Experience and observations from remote Alaska communities have shown that energy is inarguably at the center of food, energy, and water (FEW) security. The availability of potable water, fresh produce, food storage, or processed seafood ultimately depends on a reliable and adequate energy supply. For most communities, diesel fuel is the primary source of power, which comes at high cost because of the logistics associated with importing the fuel to these relatively isolated communities. Integrating locally available renewable energy resources not only enhances energy supply, but the impacts further translate to food and water security in remote microgrids. The focus …
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 …
Research Methodology: Community Input Regarding Air-Quality Curriculum For Rural Alaska, Julia Autumn Hnilicka
Research Methodology: Community Input Regarding Air-Quality Curriculum For Rural Alaska, Julia Autumn Hnilicka
Rural Development
During the summer months in rural Alaska, poor air-quality due to wildfire smoke and gravel road dust can have negative impacts on respiratory health, disproportionately affecting Elders and youth who have weakened respiratory systems. After conducting initial research during the summer of 2019, after visiting twenty-nine communities in the Interior and Southcentral regions of Alaska, the research found that more community involvement is needed to bolster engagement in understanding the impacts of air-quality and implementing steps to mitigate those impacts. This research was in response to those findings, targeting schools and the educational system to drive community engagement and interest …
Long-Term Benefits To Indigenous Communities Of Extractive Industry Partnerships: Evaluating The Red Dog Mine, Matthew Berman, Bob Loeffler, Jennifer Schmidt
Long-Term Benefits To Indigenous Communities Of Extractive Industry Partnerships: Evaluating The Red Dog Mine, Matthew Berman, Bob Loeffler, Jennifer Schmidt
ISER Reports
Mining, and oil and gas companies developing resources on land historically occupied and used by Indigenous peoples have faced criticism for offering few benefits to local communities while inflicting environmental damage. The Red Dog Mine – a joint venture between Teck Resources, Inc. and the NANA Regional Corporation – has often been cited as an example for developing extractive industries in a way that does benefit Indigenous communities. The mine is located in an economically impoverished region in Northwest Alaska that has few other wage-earning opportunities for the largely Inupiat population. Although the mine has brought demonstrable financial benefits to …
Self-Determination, Sustainability, And Wellbeing In The Alaska Native Community Of Ninilchik, Heather Sauyaq Gordon
Self-Determination, Sustainability, And Wellbeing In The Alaska Native Community Of Ninilchik, Heather Sauyaq Gordon
Indigenous Studies
Alaska Natives are a diverse group of people with different language groups and over 200 tribes. We have a history of colonization and are still a colonized people, but through all this, we strive for wellness for our people. This paper begins with an explanation of historical trauma, development, and the lack of fate control Alaska Native people experience. The literature review explains how colonization can negatively impact the colonized and details international, federal, and Alaska state law and court cases having to do with Indigenous sovereignty and self-determination. In this project the researcher works with the Ninilchik Village Tribe …
Protecting The Right To Exist As A People: Intellectual Property As A Means To Protect Traditional Knowledge And Indigenous Culture, Sean Collin, Yvette Collin, Michael Koskey
Protecting The Right To Exist As A People: Intellectual Property As A Means To Protect Traditional Knowledge And Indigenous Culture, Sean Collin, Yvette Collin, Michael Koskey
Wellness & Healing: Indigenous Innovations & Alaska Native Research
The dominant Western culture has created a legal system premised upon an individualistic and commercial foundation for intellectual property rights (IPR). This system necessarily excludes the protection of traditional knowledge and other components of Indigenous cultures, as well as concepts of communal responsibility for the keeping and transfer of such ideas and knowledge. These concepts are foundational to Indigenous knowledge systems in Alaska, as well as throughout the world. Today, a focus on this issue is critical to the preservation of indigenous cultures and their ways of knowing. We examine where national and international intellectual property rights systems are in …
Pedagogy For Reading In Rural Alaska: The Effect Of Culturally Relevant Reading Materials On Student Reading Achievement In Chevak, Alaska, Beth J. Geiges
Pedagogy For Reading In Rural Alaska: The Effect Of Culturally Relevant Reading Materials On Student Reading Achievement In Chevak, Alaska, Beth J. Geiges
Indigenous Studies
This study used Culturally Relevant Reading materials (CRRM) with a proprietary, culturally relevant pedagogy for Reading. It was focused on results in Reading Achievement, both reading fluency and comprehension, involving 7th and 8th grade students in a twelve (12)-week program of Reading Language Arts. It was an exploratory sequential mixed methods study using a quasi-experimental design, with two student groups, A and B, experimental and control respectively. The results are situated within cultural expert views of Native perspectives on reading from the community as well as student surveys on motivation. Results from the study indicate that student achievement in Reading …
Compulsory Education And Resilience In Northern Alaska: The Role Of Social Learning And Youth In Healthy Sustainable Communities, Douglas Scott Cost
Compulsory Education And Resilience In Northern Alaska: The Role Of Social Learning And Youth In Healthy Sustainable Communities, Douglas Scott Cost
Indigenous Studies
How can education in the Arctic foster individual and community resilience in a time of rapid social-environmental change? Education and learning, have powerful potential to affect future social-environmental system resilience. This research unpacks and examines the connections and feedbacks among studies of social-environmental systems (SESs), resilience, compulsory education and Indigenous knowledge. The last few decades have witnessed global recognition of rapid climate change in the Arctic; primarily the diminishing cryosphere. This has led to discussion and debate over the role of schools in addressing local knowledge, environmental changes, and community priorities. In the U.S. state of Alaska and in other …
Energy-Efficient Homes In Alaska: Historical And Contemporary Perspectives On Adaptation And Innovation, Yasmeen Hossain
Energy-Efficient Homes In Alaska: Historical And Contemporary Perspectives On Adaptation And Innovation, Yasmeen Hossain
Indigenous Studies
Global climate change is largely caused by greenhouse gas emissions from anthropogenic sources. The building industry is responsible for over 40% of global carbon emissions. Almost half of the energy consumption in buildings is from space heating and cooling. The incorporation of energy efficiency in homes has a large potential to mitigate future climate change impacts while at the same time aiding household members to adapt to the effects of global change. This dissertation explores this potential in Alaska, where in addition to climate change impacts, residents are vulnerable to high oil prices affecting not only their energy security, but …
Lessons Learned From Community-Based Participatory Research: Establishing A Partnership To Support Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual And Transgender Aging-In-Place., Diane King
Reports
BACKGROUND: Due to a history of oppression and lack of culturally competent services, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) seniors experience barriers to accessing social services. Tailoring an evidence-based ageing in place intervention to address the unique needs of LGBT seniors may decrease the isolation often faced by this population. OBJECTIVE: To describe practices used in the formation of a community-based participatory research (CBPR), partnership involving social workers, health services providers, researchers and community members who engaged to establish a LGBT ageing in place model called Seniors Using Supports To Age In Neighborhoods (SUSTAIN). METHODS: A case study approach was …
Subsistence And Commercial Fisheries Through The Lenses Of Culture And Economy In Three Coastal Alaskan Communities, Davin L. Holen
Subsistence And Commercial Fisheries Through The Lenses Of Culture And Economy In Three Coastal Alaskan Communities, Davin L. Holen
Anthropology
Commercial and subsistence fisheries in Alaska are complex social-ecological systems constituting interdependent components which include economics and culture at the local and regional levels. Each fishery has unique challenges and benefits; however, a commonality that can be found in coastal communities in Alaska is that salmon fisheries are for many a way of life that serve to link commercial and subsistence practices to family and traditions. This research investigated whether and how culture is a key component of subsistence and commercial fisheries in three core study communities in different parts of coastal Alaska; Chenega Bay in Prince William Sound, Kokhanok …
Fishlines, 2017, N/A N/A
Embodying Decolonization In A Settler Faith Community: The Living Justly In This Land Curriculum, John R. Henry
Embodying Decolonization In A Settler Faith Community: The Living Justly In This Land Curriculum, John R. Henry
Education
The curriculum project Living Justly in this Land seeks to spark a conversation among primarily non-Indigenous adults who live in a country with a history of settler colonialism. This curriculum is based on theories from the place-based education model of Land education, which has been created primarily by Indigenous scholars. Inspired by teaching styles used by many different Indigenous peoples, as well as the research method of Participatory Action Research, this living curriculum was co-created during the process of the project. I authored the basic structure of the lessons, but allowed the participants, from a majority white settler faith community, …
Scenarios In Social-Ecological Systems: Co-Producing Futures In Arctic Alaska, A. L. Lovecraft, H. Eicken
Scenarios In Social-Ecological Systems: Co-Producing Futures In Arctic Alaska, A. L. Lovecraft, H. Eicken
Research Posters
Scenarios are used to think ahead in rapidly changing, complex, and competitive environments, and make crucial decisions in absence of complete information about the future. Currently, at many regional scales of governance, there is a growing need for legitimate tools that enable the actors (e.g., governments, corporations, organized interests) at local-scales to address pressing concerns in the midst of uncertainty. This is particularly true of areas experiencing rapidly changing environments (e.g., drought, floods, diminishing sea ice, erosion) and complex social problems (e.g., remote communities, resource extraction, threatened cultures). Scenario exercises produce neither forecasts of what is to come nor are …
Perspectives Of Lgbtq Older Adults On Aging In Place: A Qualitative Investigation, Diane K. King, Jennifer M. Boggs, Jennifer Dickman Portz, Leslie A. Wright, Kenneth Helander, Jessica H. Retrum, Wendolyn S. Gozansky
Perspectives Of Lgbtq Older Adults On Aging In Place: A Qualitative Investigation, Diane K. King, Jennifer M. Boggs, Jennifer Dickman Portz, Leslie A. Wright, Kenneth Helander, Jessica H. Retrum, Wendolyn S. Gozansky
ISER Articles
This qualitative study conducted by a community-research partnership used multiple types of data collection to examine variables relevant for LGBTQ older adults who wished to age in place in their urban Denver neighborhood. Focus groups, interviews, and a town hall meeting were used to identify barriers and supports to aging in place. Participants (N=73) primarily identified as lesbian or gay, aged 50–69, and lived with a partner. Ageism, heterosexism, and/or cisgenderism emerged as cross-cutting themes that negatively impact access to healthcare, housing, social support, home assistance and legal services. Resilience from weathering a lifetime of discrimination was identified as a …
Supporting Community Gardening In Alaska Through Development Of A Community Garden Practice Guide, Ryan Mcwilliams
Supporting Community Gardening In Alaska Through Development Of A Community Garden Practice Guide, Ryan Mcwilliams
Student Projects for Graduate Degrees
Anchorage is home to an increasing number of community gardens. The body of literature on the health benefits and potential health risks related to gardening in an urban setting has been steadily expanding as the popularity of urban gardening flourishes in cities across the nation. With Alaska Community Action on Toxics’ (ACAT) interest in community health, the precautionary principle, and healthy gardening practices, a partnership was developed with ACAT for a project and practicum designed to support these values through environmental testing and analysis, key informant interviews, and a practicum experience culminating in the creation of a guide for Alaska …
Community-Scale Biosand Filter Pilot Project In Cambodia, Jason Hahn
Community-Scale Biosand Filter Pilot Project In Cambodia, Jason Hahn
Student Projects for Graduate Degrees
Clean water is a basic human necessity that is essential for the health of all population, yet 700 million people worldwide lack access to this vital resource, particularly in developing countries like Cambodia. This results in high incidences of water-borne illnesses due to the use of contaminated sources and is a burden that prevents people from leading productive lives. Slow sand filtration, both on the municipal level and the household level, is a low-cost technology that has been implemented around the world to address this problem, yet biosand filtration has not been widely implemented on a community level due to …