Speakers
Friday,Nov1 -
Lori Quakenbush
Are marine mammals in Arctic Alaska responding to warmer waters and less sea ice?
Lori Quakenbush has been the Arctic Marine Mammal Program Leader for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game in Fairbanks since 2001. She has studied marine mammals (and birds) in Alaska since 1983. Research projects include the use of satellite telemetry to study movements and habitat use of seals, walruses,…
Dr. Peter Westley
Are marine mammals in Arctic Alaska responding to warmer waters and less sea ice?
Dr. Peter Westley: A life-long Alaskan from Western European ancestry with an B.S., M.S in Fishery and Aquatic Sciences from the University of Washington, and Ph.D. in Biology from Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. Currently teaching a 100-level introductory fisheries course, an upper division and graduate level fish ecology course,…
Deana Crouser
Navigating Change: From Microscopic Plankton to Majestic North Pacific Right Whales
Deana Crouser is a contracted Zooplankton Ecologist with Lynker Technologies, supporting NOAA’s Alaska Fisheries Science Center in Seattle, WA. She specializes in zooplankton imaging using AI and machine learning. Her current research focuses on the effects of global warming on long-term changes in copepod size in the Bering Sea. Originally…
Elizabeth Siddon
How Alaska's Fisheries (and Science!) are Keeping Pace with a Changing Climate
Elizabeth (Ebett) Siddon is a Fisheries Biologist at NOAA’s Alaska Fisheries Science Center in Juneau. Ebett grew up in New Hampshire and attended the University of New Hampshire for her undergraduate degree (in Marine and Freshwater Biology). She moved to Juneau in 2002 where she has since completed a Masters…
Saturday,Nov2 -
Donna Hauser
Nunaaqqit Savaqatigivlugich - Working with Iñupiaq Communities to understand a changing Arctic | Donna Hauser, Roberta G.T.B., & Kim Pikok
Donna D.W. Hauser, Ph.D., is a Research Associate Professor at the International Arctic Research Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks where she pursues interdisciplinary and collaborative research in marine ecology. Her diverse research portfolio is centered on the roles and responses of marine wildlife, but also the people who rely on…
Kimberley Pikok
Nunaaqqit Savaqatigivlugich - Working with Iñupiaq Communities to understand a changing Arctic | Donna Hauser, Roberta G.T.B., & Kim Pikok
My name is Kimberly Kivvaq Pikok and I am an Iñupiaq fisher from Utqiaġvik, Alaska. I am the granddaughter of Tommy Nipik and Rhoda Kivvaq Pikok. I come from a fishing family that loves to spend time inland hunting and camping. I enjoy camping and fishing at Pikok Camp, learning…
Roberta Tuurraq Glenn-Borade
Nunaaqqit Savaqatigivlugich - Working with Iñupiaq Communities to understand a changing Arctic | Donna Hauser, Roberta G.T.B., & Kim Pikok
Roberta Tuurraq Glenn-Borade is AAOKH's Project Coordinator and Community Liaison. She is Iñupiaq and was born and raised in Utqiaġvik. Roberta got her B.S. and M.S. in Geography at UAF with a focus on community-based monitoring in Alaska. Roberta helps AAOKH develop and maintain strong relationships with our communities so that…
Kari Lanphier
Mean & Green (or not!) European Green Crab in Southeast Alaska
Kari Lanphier has called Sheetkʼá Ḵwáan on Lingít Aaní home since 2017. She works with Tribal Environmental Programs throughout Southeast Alaska to help address pressing environmental concerns such as paralytic shellfish toxins, ocean acidification, and European green crab.
Marie Zahn
Tracking the Tusk: Using Sound to Study Narwhal Movements
Marie Zahn is a polar marine ecologist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the University of Washington's Applied Physics Laboratory's Polar Science Center. Her passion for the outdoors and experience in remote regions like Antarctica and Alaska inspired her to pursue a career in marine biology, focusing on the…
Sunday,Nov3 -
Richard Glenn
In Support of the Coming Generations: Lessons Learned and Lessons Taught from Subsistence Hunting and Whaling Communities on the North Slope
Richard Glenn served on the leadership team of the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation (ASRC), where he was Lands Manager, Senior Vice-President of Lands, and Executive Vice-President of Government and External Affairs (2000-2021). He was an elected At-Large director of ASRC for most of that time. Prior to that he was…
Lee Kayotuk
In Support of the Coming Generations: Lessons Learned and Lessons Taught from Subsistence Hunting and Whaling Communities on the North Slope
Lee Kayotuk is a hunter who is originally from Aklavik, Canada and for 29 years has called Kaktovik, Alaska his home. He serves on the North Slope Borough Federal Subsistence Management Committee, the Porcu pine Caribou Board, and the NSB Planning Commission.
Lauren Wild
Following the arc of humans’ relationship with marine mammals in Southeast Alaska
Lauren was born and raised in Sitka, in Southeast Alaska. She attended Brandeis University in Boston, Massachusetts, where she graduated with a B.A. in International and Global Studies, and a minor in Mathematics. During a study abroad semester in Madagascar, Lauren became interested in marine science and whale research, so…
Mike Miller
Following the arc of humans’ relationship with marine mammals in Southeast Alaska
Lifelong Alaska resident. Sitka Tribe member, Chairman Indigenous Peoples Council for Marine Mammals (ipcomm), Trustee Sealaska Heritage Institute, AOOS Board of directors. Previous positions: North Pacific Research Board, Alaska Scientific Review Group, Sitka Tribal Council, SEARHC Board, numerous Ocean policy and research committees/forums for 25 years.
John Moran
Following the arc of humans’ relationship with marine mammals in Southeast Alaska
John Moran is a research fisheries biologist at NOAA’s Auke Bay Laboratories in Juneau, Alaska. He received a M.S. from the University of Alaska Fairbanks in fisheries and completed his undergraduate studies in zoology and marine biology at the University of New Hampshire. John has worked across Alaska (Southeast, Kodiak,…