SEARCH Highlights

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 your time. Sometimes, folks add collaborating with SEARCH to the mix. This past May, two of our Research Assistants graduated from the Middlebury Institute of…

The vast Arctic Ocean at the top of our planet has been covered in sea ice longer than humans have been on Earth. Crucial habitat upon which Arctic ecosystems and people rely, that sea ice cover has historically remained even in the warmest summer months. With rising greenhouse gas emissions from around the world warming …

If we were to add up the collective years of the recently formed SEARCH Advisory Committee, we’d get pretty close to half a millennium. Between October 2022 and March 2023, we invited and welcomed to our Advisory Committee nine leaders in Arctic Indigenous knowledge, science, politics, economics, and business: Honorable Aleqa Hammond; Gail Schubert; Lisa…

A Friday evening phone call between Executive Director Athena Copenhaver and team member from Savoonga Bryan Rookok, Jr. turned into an hour-long discussion of hunting, weather, family, and food. Never far from the edges of these topics lingers the specter of a changing Arctic environment and how these shifts in the living world impact people.…