Focus Areas
Our work brings together culture, science, and education. Every project begins with the same idea, that Alaska’s knowledge, in all its forms, should remain alive, respected, and within reach.
- Languages and Oral Traditions : recording voices, teaching words, and supporting those who keep Alaska’s languages in daily use.
- Archives and Records : protecting photographs, field notes, maps, and data collected across generations, and building digital homes where they can be safely studied and shared.
- Cultural Mapping : tracing names, routes, and stories that connect communities to their lands and waters.
- Ecosystem Monitoring : observing change in glaciers, forests, and coastlines with the help of both instruments and local knowledge.
- Community Science : working with schools, field teams, and cultural centers to document what is seen and learned across Alaska’s regions.
- Open Environmental Data : creating reliable tools that allow researchers and communities to study the North together and build on shared information.
- Education and Public Scholarship : linking classrooms, archives, and research through programs that invite people to learn from the land itself.
- Museum and Field Learning : bringing history, science, and culture into the same space, where study becomes experience and understanding grows from place.
