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Co-produced knowledge guides suggestions for the Alaska Energy Security Task Force

27 October 2023

SEARCH’s co-production teams convened in Anchorage earlier this month to advance policy-relevant understanding of environmental change in the Arctic. One working group is exploring equitable and sustainable energy policies for Alaska, and they used the Anchorage convening to co-produce and submit formal comments to the Alaska Energy Security Task Force.  With the public comment period…

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SEARCH Syntheses Underway: Bringing together What We Know about Changes in the Arctic

11 August 2023

SEARCH is a complex collaboration of 50 Indigenous Knowledge holders, scientists, & decision makers co-producing solutions to problems that people face as the Arctic environment changes rapidly. We operate with funding from the National Science Foundation’s Office of Polar Programs. Our premise is that meeting the profound challenges of rapid environmental change requires decisions informed…

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Mourning the loss of Craig George

21 July 2023

All of SEARCH and many people in Utqiagvik and around the world are greatly saddened by the loss of our colleague and friend, John Craighead George. Craig was lost in a rafting accident on the Chulitna River on 5 July and his body recovered on 16 July. A resident of Utqiagvik for the past 46…

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