Special Program Announcement
FREEZE - Relevancy of the Changing North: Changes to Climate,
Subsistence, Language and Culture
Anchorage Museum
Anchorage, Alaska
Saturday, 24 January 2009
For further information, please go to:
http://www.freezeproject.org
FREEZE, a public celebration of northern life, offers presentations
focusing on the relevancy of changes in the environment and to Alaskan
ways of life on Saturday, 24 January 2009, from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.,
at the Anchorage Museum, in Anchorage, Alaska. For a complete listing of
"The Changing North" presentations and other FREEZE activities, please
go to: http://www.freezeproject.org.
Highlights of Saturday's program include:
- Margaret Manousoff, outreach and advocacy coordinator at Alaska
Conservation Solutions, on the causes and effects of global warming
with a specific focus on the challenges and opportunities in Alaska.
- Anne Jensen, a senior scientist for the Ukpeagvik Inupiat Corporation
and National Science Foundation-funded researcher, on Barrow
archaeology, which substantiates the long ties between local people and
whales, and on the incorporation of local students in field and
laboratory work.
- Melissa Wannamaker, in a FREEZE musical spot performance.
- Leonard Piitkaq Apangalook, Sr., leader and whaling captain from the
Yupik community of Gambell on St. Lawrence Island, on the effects of
climate change in the region.
- Larry Merculieff, an Unangax (Aleut) leader from St. Paul Island, on
changes in the Arctic due to global warming, from the perspective of
traditional hunters and Native elders.
- Jana Pausauraq Harcharek, head of Inupiaq education for the North
Slope Borough School District (NSBSD), on the district's language and
culture-based projects.
- Debby Dahl Edwardson, director of the Center of Community and
Workforce Development at Ilisagvik College and a member of the NSBSD
Board, reading from her bilingual children's book, Whale Snow.
- Charles Wohlforth, author of The Whale and the Supercomputer, will
present slides taken while traveling in the Arctic with Inupiaq whalers
and scientists, as each culture struggled to understand and adapt to
the fast-changing climate.
For further information, please go to:
http://www.freezeproject.org