WRE Director Sarah Johnson joins the 4th annual Collective Alaska Native Perspectives training in Homer. A collaborator on the LEDKA ONR grant, Sarah is deepening the project's commitment to weaving Indigenous wisdom with Western science. Building on previous Utqiaġvik research and the Float Your Boat project, WRE is expanding its Arctic expertise into the sub-arctic to support community resilience and equity across North America.

In a remarkably short time, the landscape of climate education has been fundamentally altered. With the loss of legacy organizations like ARCUS and Climate Generation, and the defunding of vital networks like CLEAN, we are witnessing a systemic erasure of both climate science and the bridge that connects it to the public. Explore the impact of this 'unraveling' and what remains of our collective community.

LEKDA (Local Ecological Knowledge + Data = Action) empowers Alaska’s youth by weaving Alutiiq/Sugpiaq wisdom with marine science. Moving students from observation to action, Wild Rose Education (WRE) is a core collaborator. WRE director Sarah Johnson co-authored the original ONR grant and has been a key partner since the start [User History]. Using WRE’s Transformative Praxis Lab, we ensure evaluation centers Indigenous knowledge to drive community resilience.

Listening to understand 10 year olds' connections to sea ice and weather patterns in Utqiaġvik, Alaska while teaching Arctic Ocean currents.

Spectacular beautiful day on the sea ice deploying buoys, wooden boats, and retrieving a prototype sensor.

Snowmobiling on the Arctic sea ice for science.

Over 70 Eben Hopson Middle School 8th graders explored Iñupiat Knowledge, Sea Ice Biology, Remote Sensing, and Snow, Sea Ice and Weather.

Girls in both Basalt, Colorado and Utqiaġvik, Alaska learn about the Arctic sea ice.

Studying sea ice as various geographic scales is central to teaching 8th graders on the ice in Utqiaġvik, Alaska.

Embarking on 2023 Spring International Arctic Buoy Programme (IABP) deployment campaign including lots of outreach opportunities.

We are watching the dynamic Arctic sea ice movement in preparing for spring 2023 IABP expedition to Utqiaġvik, Alaska.

Each year, NOAA produces the Arctic Report Card to help us understand the exponential impacts of climate change on the Arctic. Many of...