Arctic Peoples: A Changing Climate, Changing Ways of Life with Kaare Sikuaq Erickson

Arctic Peoples: A Changing Climate, Changing Ways of Life with Kaare Sikuaq Erickson

In this specific lesson, Kaare Sikuaq Erickson discusses the Ukpeaġvik Iñupiat Corporation (UIC) and its role in nearly twenty-five thousand research sites in/around Barrow, Alaska. You'll also learn about Arctic indigenous populations that live in areas affected by climate change. 
 

This video is part of a collection called “Frozen in the Ice: Exploring the Arctic,” offered through the online course platform Coursera, about the extraordinary MOSAiC Arctic research mission that has frozen an icebreaker into the Arctic Ocean, where it will drift for 13 months (mosaic-expedition.org). 


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About the Presenter

Kaare Ray Sikuaq Erikson is an indigenous anthropologist from northern Alaska, Erickson specializes in helping arctic researchers who do not live there to better get along with people who do. He is the outreach and engagement manager for the Ukpeagvik Inupiat Corporation Science in Utqiagvik, Alaska.

Additional Resources

Visit this page to access the “Frozen in the Ice: Exploring the Arctic” Coursera.

In this course, you’ll hear directly from more than three dozen MOSAiC scientists and Arctic experts as they summarize the core of their research, what types of data they collect during MOSAiC on the ice, under the sea, and in the air and describe why this expedition is so key for increasing our understanding of the Arctic and global climate systems.

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