News and Highlights

SEARCH Highlights: How we're working together to share what we know

How We Harvest Essential Knowledge

By brendanpkelly | 11 August 2023

When SEARCH came together in September 2021 with funding from the National Science Foundation’s Office of Polar Programs, we relied on our shared values to guide us into a new…

Laying the Groundwork for Coproduction: Sharing Vision & Values

By Athena Copenhaver | 10 August 2023

To set the tone during our first all teams convening in Anchorage, Alaska, in June 2022, co-Principal Investigators Jackie Qataliña Schaeffer and Vera Kingeekuk Metcalf began day one by walking…

Honoring Decades of Contributions to Alaska’s Oceans & Coasts

By Alex Shahbazi | 8 August 2023

From her childhood in Savoonga on St. Lawrence Island to a career bursting with advocacy and marine management, Vera Kingeekuk Metcalf’s life has been dedicated to Alaska’s oceans and coasts.…

Subsistence, Sheefish, & Synthesis across Northwest Alaska

By Athena Copenhaver | 29 July 2023

In February 2023, principal investigator Brendan Kelly traveled to northwest Alaska, first to Kotzebue where he and SEARCH team member Cyrus Harris discussed the changing environment with representatives of the…

7+ Semesters of Graduate Student Research

By Athena Copenhaver | 26 July 2023

There’s a lot to do when you’re a full-time graduate student. Classes, projects, internships, networking, career development, and side jobs are but a handful of the things that can occupy…