In-Person and Virtual Workshops

• Atmosphere - Clouds
• Hydrosphere - Alkalinity
• Hydrosphere - Conductivity
• Hydrosphere - Dissolved Oxygen
• Hydrosphere - Freshwater Macroinvertebrates
• Hydrosphere - pH
• Hydrosphere - Water Temperature
• Hydrosphere - Water Transparency

Description: Climate change influences our lives in Alaska and the changes occurring in the Arctic impact the entire planet. The Climate Change and My Community workshop is for community members, educators, knowledge holders, and/or youth advisors interested in learning more about the following:

• impacts and feedbacks of a warming Arctic; 

• braiding multiple ways of knowing and observing climate change from their Elders, from satellites, and from their own observations, 

• and making a difference on a food security and climate change issue important to their communities.  

Participants will learn how to engage youth in observing changes that relate to food security. These may include observations in berries, fish habitat, water quality, clouds, weather, soils, permafrost, erosion, and the timing of green-up and green-down. 

You and the youth you work with will collaborate with University of Alaska Fairbanks and NASA scientists to conduct an investigation using Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) citizen science protocols and inquiry learning methods and use these data, satellite data, and the knowledge of community Elders to inform a climate change stewardship or adaptation project in the place you live throughout the school year. Attending this workshop will engage you in a project called Arctic and Earth STEM integrating GLOBE and NASA (SIGNs), which is funded through NASA Award No. NNX16AC52A).