“Do you think they do delivery?” Aleksey asks with a grin as he looks back at our last boxes of cookies. For the past nine days, we’ve been camped out in a Reindeer police cabin in the Varanger Peninsula in northeastern Norway. This is our first cool evening of the trip, and the mosquito net-wrapped windows are coated with what we’ve been calling “yr,” the Norwegian word for mist.
Interactions of Natural and Social Systems with Climate Change, Globalization, and Infrastructure Development in the Arctic 2024
This project brings together earth system scientists, engineers, ecologists, and anthropologists to document and explain changes in ecosystems and their effects on the plants, animals, indigenous peoples, and the built environment of the Arctic. It emphasizes interactions between these elements to help understand, inform, and plan for changes to come. Janice Ledgerwood and her students are working with the science team to tell the researchers’ stories through comics arts and animation. The resulting artworks will be shared with diverse audiences both in the US and Norway.
Participants Involved in This Project
Mary Heskel | Researcher Fellow
Macalester College | Saint Paul, MN
Aleksey Sheshukov | Researcher Fellow
Kansas State University | Manhattan, KS
Peter Ungar | Researcher Fellow
University of Arkansas | Fayetteville, AR
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Made possible with funding by the U.S. National Science Foundation Award #2221990. The information contained here is those of the author(s) and does not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. National Science Foundation.
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