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ABOUT
Aksik is a Siberian Yupik term called out by captains to turn the boat quickly, as if to avoid danger or move in a new direction, by placing an oar against the bow and down in to the water and pulling back using the gunnel as a fulcrum point. Aksik is also an Inupiat term meaing do not touch. We believe humanity must aksik away from climate change quickly and aksik, or do not disturb, traditional subsistence cultures in these efforts.
AKSIK is also an acronym for Alaskans Sharing Indigenous Knowledge.
AKSIK is a multi-year scientific and advocacy project to create an online library of videos that:
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Document what native people in the Bering Sea area of Alaska are witnessing with climate change; and
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Communicate their adaptation needs via the internet.
We work with two communities in the Bering Strait:
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Savoonga on St. Lawrence Island;and
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Shaktoolik on the Norton Sound.
FUNDING
This project is funded by St. Lawrence University's Environmental Education Initiative for Active Learning, Research and Advocacy, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
WHO WE ARE
Director and Founder
Jon Rosales, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Environmental Studies
St. Lawrence University
Canton, NY 13617
USA
(315) 229-5852
jrosales@stlawu.edu
Village Coordinators
Savoonga: Perry Pungowiyi
(907) 984-6311
Shaktoolik: Carole Sookiayak
(907) 955-2517
Content Management
Nancy Alessi
(315) 229-5814
nalessi@stlawu.edu
Research Assistants
Meredith Kenney
Emma Kearney
Jon Ignatowski
Elizabeth Atwood
Research Collaborators
Dr. Jessican Chapman, St. Lawrence University, Mathematics
Dr. Alexander Stewart, St. Lawrence University, Geology
Website Design by David Katz.