SEARCH Highlights

How SEARCH Engages Community: Gambell, St. Lawrence Island, Alaska

26 January 2024

Merle Apassingok is a whaling boat co-captain, a commissioned pastor for Gambell Presbyterian Church, and until recently, a Bering Air agent in Gambell on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska. As a SEARCH researcher, Merle shares Yupik knowledge of the Arctic environment with his SEARCH colleagues, and he shares the collaborative work of SEARCH with his community.…

Scientists’ Perspectives towards Achieving Net Zero

6 January 2024

Achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions is core to mitigating climate change, the most important and urgent issue of our time. Despite many countries’ international commitments to reach net zero by 2050, these targets face major challenges. Brendan Kelly—SEARCH’s Principal Investigator & Science Director—and colleagues from NASA, Scripps, and Binghamton University co-convened a panel of…

Sharing Our Process through the Power of Posters

6 January 2024

Several SEARCH team members recently presented a poster at AGU23 highlighting our work synthesizing knowledge of—and solutions for—Arctic environmental change. Spearheaded by SEARCH co-PI Marika Holland, our boots on the ground took the form of Brendan Kelly, Athena Copenhaver, George Kling, and Alex Shahbazi. To say that folks perusing the poster session were interested in…

Advancing Three-Eyed Seeing at AGU23

6 January 2024

Wide open science was the theme of this year’s American Geophysical Union fall meeting in San Francisco, and SEARCH took the opportunity to lead dozens of scientists in a lively discussion of research that includes diverse disciplines, perspectives, and knowledge systems. More than 55 researchers–from scientists and decision makers to philosophers and physicians–engaged with nine…

SEARCH @ AGU23

4 December 2023

One of the country’s (if not the world’s) largest scientific gatherings is happening in just one week, and SEARCH is thrilled to once again be attending. The American Geophysical Union’s (AGU) 2023 fall meeting—aptly abbreviated as AGU23—will see over 25,000 attendees from over 100 countries descend on San Francisco for a week of presentations, meetings,…

Savoonga Community Leader Soon to Co-Chair SEARCH Team

28 November 2023

Change is in the air for SEARCH as winter rolls in near the close of 2023. Bryan Rookok, Jr.—SEARCH co-production team member and community leader from Savoonga on St. Lawrence Island—will be taking up the mantle of co-chair of our International Cooperation & Economic Decisionmaking (IC-ED) co-production team. As an already integral team member, Bryan will…