PacMARS Community Meetings

As part of the overall goals of PacMARS and specifically addressing Theme 5: Subsistence Lifestyles in Times of Climate Change, the PacMARS team conducted five regional Alaskan community meetings on St. Lawrence Island, and in Barrow, Kotzebue and Nome. The meetings provided a forum for feedback on research needs as they are perceived by local communities as well as ecological insights from subsistence hunters specifically and local residents in general. Two of the community meetings (Gambell and Savoonga) were conducted as formal open community style meetings. The other meetings were “hub” style meetings with representatives selected by the tribal governments in each village represented.

Photos from Community Meetings

Gambell

Savoonga

Kotzebue