The library based at Connotea is linked in the sidebar. The Twittered and Tumblred libraries are linked there as well. I’ll eventually get all the libraries linked together. In the meantime, here is the Google Books link–

• Books in Grassroots Science’s library

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• Newsclips for Grassroots Science

http://services.newsgator.com/ngws/svc/ClippingsRSS.aspx?uid=1434014&fid=11769270

• Newsclips for library, museum, knowledge systems

http://services.newsgator.com/ngws/svc/ClippingsRSS.aspx?uid=1434014&fid=30257972


• Grassroots Science Tumblr micro library
• Grassroots Science tweeted library

Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard held a conference about reporting on pandemics. Excerpts from the conference were published on-line in the Spring 2007 Nieman Reports.

Maryn McKenna is currently writing about MRSA at her blog

Creating a Bookshelf of Valuable Resources List compiled by Maryn McKenna. http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reportsitem.aspx?id=100374 It helps to assemble a reference bookshelf,” McKenna says. “I have been writing about pandemic and avian flu since 1997, and here are some of the works I keep on my shelf.”

Avian Flu, A Pandemic & the Role of Journalists: Excerpts From a Conference From November 30 until December 2, 2006, discussion at the Nieman Foundation … “The Next Big Health Crisis — And How to Cover It” brought journalists together with scientists, public health officials, medical experts, academic researchers, law enforcement officers, public policy experts, and Homeland Security officials to talk about how best to prepare for the possible arrival of pandemic flu.

Previous posts about Maryn McKenna
MRSA blog
More historical resources (Brevig Mission)
Pandemic planners urged to tap grass roots

Site Search Tags: McKenna, readings, history, epidemiology, books, influenza, pandemic, news+media, journalism, public+health, Harvard, Nieman

The Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project is one of seven projects that make up the Pew Research Center. The Center is supported by The Pew Charitable Trusts. So this quiz of theirs What Kind of Tech User Are You? is a useful bit of time to take out.

Doesn’t take long. Significance for the world is debatable but it does accumulate data for their studies.

You are an Media Mover If you are a Media Mover, you have a wide range of online and mobile habits, and you are bound to find or create an information nugget, such as a digital photo, and pass it on. These social exchanges are central to your use of information and communication technology. Cyberspace, as a path to personal productivity or an outlet for creativity, is less important to you.

Site Search Tags: Pew, cyberspace, Internet, survey

Craig Spacek’s photostream usually has interesting photos from the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta.

He’s just posted some of today’s river flooding in Emmonak.

2009-05-26 from Alaska PrideMay 2009 Eagle, Alaska Begins Recovery After Ice Jam Flood Takes Out 30 Homes, Contaminates The Well With E.Coli, And Spreads Diesel Pollution View all posts on the 2009 Interior Alaska floods HERE, in inverse chronological order. The most recent post will appear first.

Site Search Tags: Emmonak, erosion, Yukon+River, flooding, preparedness, photos

The 2009 World Beard and Moustache Championships were held in Anchorage this past week. Friday at 4 PM was the parade downtown.

Lots of redheads. such as Jack Passion

Not enough kilts, however. Don’t know if this is a UTILIKILTS : http://www.utilikilts.com/ but the collar is the antipodean possum (not the Virginia o’possum)–

See

• World Beard and Moustache Championships and results http://akbeardclub.com/resultsworldbear.html
• Bearded & Tschorn: USA dominates World Beard and Moustache Championships

The LATimes had more coverage of the poster contest than the Anchorage papers or the Chamber of Commerce. The program had one poster as the cover, but not that tonsorial totem pole

Just a reminder that some things should never be shaved–

Site Search Tags: parade, beard, moustache, hair, parade, Anchorage, Alaska

The author of an excellent book towards understanding Alaska,
Chills and Fever: Health and Disease in the Early History of Alaska. 1989. Publisher: University of Alaska Press. ISBN: 0912006587 has died, Dr. Robert Fortuine. I know his book but had no idea of his extensive life. Fortunately, his biography can be read at the Anchorage Daily News

Dr Fortuine was named Alaska Historian of the Year in 1990 for his book “Chills and Fever: Health and Disease in the Early History of Alaska” and again in 2005 for his book “Must We All Die? Alaska’s Enduring Struggle with Tuberculosis.” He was also a Fellow of the Arctic Institute of North America, a founding member of the American Society for Circumpolar Health, and a co-founder of the Amundsen Educational Center in Soldotna (a Christian vocational school for Alaska Natives).

Field assignments in the Indian Health Service included successive postings as medical officer and medical officer in charge at the Turtle Mountain Chippewa Reservation at Belcourt, N.D. (1961-63), then as service unit director at Kanakanak in Alaska (1963-64), Bethel (1964-67), on the Navajo Reservation at Fort Defiance, Ariz. (1970-71) and finally as director of the Alaska Native Medical Center in Anchorage (1971-77). From 1977-1980, he was detailed to the U.S. State Department as international health attache, the liaison officer between the U.S. government and the World Health Organization … Until his retirement from the Public Health Service in 1987, he worked as a family physician and emergency room physician at the Alaska Native Medical Center, then spent another 12 years as a volunteer operating a weekly skin clinic at the hospital…. Since 1989, Dr. Fortuine taught first-year medical students at the University of Alaska Anchorage as part of the WWAMI Program of the University of Washington.

Another related post–
Anchorage Museum to open tuberculosis exhibit

Site Search Tags: Fortuine, TB, history, Alaska, epidemics, epidemiology, medical, IHS, PHS, ANMC

Steve Heimel yesterday discussed on APRN.org Talk of Alaska: Holding Off Swine Flu, with Dr. Jay Butler, State Epidemiologist, Department of Health and Social Services.

http://media.aprn.org/2009/toa-20090505.mp3 Swine Flu Talk of Alaska

Their blog comments are handled by Disqus which means it is nearly impossible to participate (my browser re-draws into one pixel wide; log-ins never work; comments don’t appear) so I will post my comment here and hope it trackbacks over there.

Preparedness comes in many forms, including (or especially) accurate information for the public to decide their risk. I think creating a false sense of security about infectious diseases or flooding and erosion is worse than the emergency condition itself.

My 3 things everyone should know to prevent bird flu (pandemic flu) are * Katrina was no Girl Scout (be prepared);
* learn the words and tune to Happy Birthday (wash hands while singing two rounds of Happy Birthday or Good Morning to You, properly, in English or Yup’ik); and
* practice safe sex (which implies that one has enough respect for self and other not to abuse alcohol and drugs, too. The result is fewer chronic illnesses like untreated depression, chlamydia, TB, and hepatitis which weakens one’s immune system.) More at How to avoid swine flu H1N1, or any other, quick list, from http://ykalaska.wordpress.com/

Always ask yourself and your experts– does it make sense?
Does mass dispensing exercise prove disaster readiness
Mass disease pass, 2007

Alaska Airlines said it was removing pillows and blankets from all of its 114 planes, and would disinfect and sanitize all of its planes during overnight maintenance.
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2009/may/02/flu-wallops-mexican-tourism/

Now we won’t have any pillows for lumbar support to overcome the cramped seating and they’ll probably turn the heat too high to compensate for no blankets.

Bring back the antimacassar!

I always assumed pillows and blankets were disinfected regularly on planes (but nevertheless was queasy that it didn’t occur). Whole Foods doesn’t provide hand gel near the food counters or exits– a precaution to not so much to prevent illness but to remind patrons to practice safe sneezing. On the other hand, the Johnny Appleseed Trail of North Central Massachusetts, Visitor Center http://www.appleseed.org/ wipes down the doorknobs and door handles every hour as routine (they get lots of visitors per hour on the highways).

2009-05-05 I found out yesterday that Northwest/Delta airlines does have antimacassars and free pillows and blankets for lumbar support. Food is still extra.

Site Search Tags: Alaska+Airlines, preparedness, PPE, public+health, business, Whole+Foods, health+centers

Just visited western Massachusetts, Amherst area. None of the stores (including Whole Foods) and doctors’ offices, medical centers, or retirement places that I saw had any hand sanitizer available for visitors. It doesn’t take much to provide a safe reminder about hand washing and sneezing. See also, Mr Purell goes to City Hall

• My 3 things everyone should know to prevent pandemic flu
• Masks — Types, Choosing (PPE)
• Disinfectants for camp, field, and household
• Song in Yup’ik to time handwashing
• Song to time hand washing for hygiene and disease prevention
• Kung-fu-choo Do it in your sleeve
• ==> Hands washing, sanitizers
• New employer business preparedness resource

2009-05-18
Another source of information about preparedness (in multiple languages), How the 1918 flu prepares for 21st Century, in a comic book

The City of Anchorage uses a publicly accessible crime map, Crime Map http://crimemap.muni.org/ which can be quite useful to people moving into the city from rural areas and looking for places to live and work. Like any map, it is only as good as the information or data put into the map. As with the preparedness plans, what-me-worry-we-have-plan, it is up to all of us to ask if maps make sense.

This discussion from the LATimes, Highest crime rate in L.A.? No, just an LAPD map glitch, about their questioning is a good example. It is important to note that “the experts” have to include us, the folks who live and use such information. The mapmakers or government or “them/they” only know what they know. I have found we’re essential to our own lives and can’t pass that responsibility on to others, i.e., public involvement works.

• Getting Results from Your Experts
• Pandemic planners urged to tap grass roots
• Don’t ignore grassroots scientists SciDev.Net
• Let’s wait to be told (They know best) 2

One reason the errors were not caught earlier may be that the LAPD site retains crimes for only six months and allows viewers to see only a seven-day period at a time. The presentation makes some trends, such as the large accumulation of crimes mapped at Civic Center, more difficult to spot. The mistakes spread on the Internet, often compounding the distortion.

EveryBlock, an enterprise that specializes in pulling together local data from many sources, has been praised as a model for the future of journalism, but unlike traditional publications, the site takes no responsibility for the accuracy of its aggregated data. …

But the newfound ease provided by online services can create a false sense of confidence in the computer’s matching ability. Behind the scenes, an algorithm tries to translate unruly street addresses, often drawn from handwritten forms, into the precision of decimal degrees. …

• mapping errors could affect policy decisions.
• Small changes in how an address is typed — for instance, “68th St.” instead of “W. 68th St.” — can put the point in the wrong neighborhood or even the wrong city. Adding or removing the name of the city or a ZIP Code can lead to differing results. Because of the way they break up the parts of an address, Google and Yahoo sometimes return different locations for addresses typed exactly the same way.
• Mistakes could have the effect of masking real crime spikes as well as creating false ones.

I’m forwarding a copy of the LATimes article to the Anchorage Police Dept. as some of the same factors are in the Anchorage map (e.g., only a few days are available).

2009-04-07T03:49 Lt. Parker of APD writes back (thank you) that all their

police data entry systems have the required address field. Many like ours use the police department headquarters as a default for crimes not associated with a specific location. It sure looks like lots of crime is taking place at the police department on those crime maps though! I can assure you that it is only a computer glitch.

From these maps below, when would you suspect (hypothesize) people receive their monthly checks?

Anchorage map of April 1, 2009 reported crimes

Anchorage daily crimes reported 2 April 2009

Site Search Tags: public+involvement, maps, Anchorage, GIGO, sciencing, crime, GIS, LATimes, planning, preparedness, muni.org, experts, stake+holders, analytical+anthropology, CBPR, CBR, community+involvement, Google, Yahoo, police

By John M. Glionna April 5, 2009 Reporting from Seoul — Defying weeks of international pressure, North Korea launched a multistage rocket today, a move that the U.S. and its allies fear masked a test of its ability to deliver nuclear weapons.

Fortunately, it was just a rocket test, although falling debris is bad enough. See the earlier post, Where is… Bethel from Pyongyang

The map I posted here, Where is… transport hub of the world, is the map of current sea traffic.

From Wired magazine came this nifty map, Watch 24 Brilliant Hours of U.S. Flights. Note where Bethel is. Bethel is supposed to be Alaska’s fifth busiest airport, which shows.

Altitude: Dark colors indicate a higher altitude; lighter shades indicate takeoff and landing.
Aircraft model: Each of the 573 airplanes are represented by a unique color.
Manufacturer: Flight frequency is tracked by aircraft manufacturer.

This project was a collaboration among Aaron Koblin, FlightView and Wired Magazine.

The interactive map is available here, http://sandbox.aaronkoblin.com/projects/flightpaths/

Unfortunately, the very large cargo planes aren’t listed by model. Otherwise, Anchorage is supposed to be the busiest international cargo hub in the US. See Ted Stevens Airport & HPAI (highly pathogenic avian influenza, a.k.a., bird flu)

Where is Alaska's 5th busiest airport?

click to enlarge

Compare one by air with two by sea,

Site Search Tags: Ted+Stevens, map, where+is, air+traffic, shipping+lanes, shipping, highways, jetsam, Canada, Asia, transportation, ecosystems, landscapes, biocultural+adaptation, railbelt, unorganized+borough, melt+rush, land+claim

All who care about rural Alaska, follow instructions below to send your
comment to the U.S. Postal Service regarding the significant increases
in Parcel Post and Bypass Mail rates:

Deadline is 12:30 pm Alaska time on Monday! Please tell the USPS that
the proposed rate increases will cause significant hardship. Rate
increases will greatly impact all of rural Alaska. Some rural Alaskans
are struggling to buy food now and cannot afford any increases in the
Parcel Post and Bypass Mail rates which will add to the cost of
groceries. Please reduce the rate increases. Use your own words.

If you are contacting the Postal Service as an individual you can reach
the Office of Public Affairs & Government Relations via
Email: PRC-PAGR @ prc . gov
Phone: 202-789-6800
Fax: 202-789-6886
Tell the person you speak to that you “want to submit a comment to
Docket R2009-2 on postal rate changes for market dominant products.” Let
them know that you think the rate increases will be harmful to the lives
of people in rural Alaska. Say what you think in your own words.

If you represent a municipality, a village, a Native organization, a
business firm, etc., follow the instructions below to get a 10 day
account. You can get help from Annie Kennedy in Washington D.C. at
202-789-6875. She is a very helpful Consumer Relations Specialist. Try
it yourself first. Submit your comments to “Docket R2009-2″ so that they
will definitely be read by the 5 people on the Commission who will make
the final decision on the USPS rate increases.

go to www.prc.gov
In the gray bar near the top click on “Filing Online.”
Click “Need an Account” in the side navigation bar.
Under the words “Filing Online Accounts” click on the blue words “Apply
Online.”
Fill out the form to get a 10 day account.

You may have to go back to the Home page to login using the Username and
Password that you chose.

You will need a Document Title for anything you submit. It can be called
“Letter from __________ of (date)” or it can be a resolution or any
other document that your organization creates.

Your Document needs to contain your comments.

Remember there is help if you need it. The phone number provided above
is 4 hours ahead of our time.

Please take the time to do this, because rates are due to increase May
11th and will dramatically affect our lives in rural Alaska.

Thank you.

Jody Malus
Finance Committee
City of Bethel

2009 Summer WAS*IS (Weather and Society * Integrated Studies) Call for Applications

Approximately 25 people will be selected to participate in the 2009 Summer WAS*IS workshop. We will select a diverse and interactive group that represents a range of experiences, educational environments, career aspirations, and specialties.

The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Societal Impacts Program (SIP) announces the call for applications for the 2009 Summer WAS*IS workshop to be held August 6-14, 2009, in Boulder, CO. PLEASE NOTE that this workshop will be held contingent upon funding.

Please visit http://www.sip.ucar.edu/wasis/summer09/apply.jsp to learn the application details and to read more about WAS*IS! All application materials are due by Friday, [deadline] March 27, 2009.

WAS*IS is a grassroots movement to fully integrate social science into meteorological research and practice. WAS*IS is doing this by:

(1) building an interdisciplinary community of practitioners, researchers, and stakeholders who are dedicated to the integration of meteorology and social science; and

(2) providing this community with opportunities to learn about ideas, methods, and examples related to integrated weather-society work. See our article in the November 2007 issue of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society for more information about WAS*IS (http://ams.allenpress.com/archive/1520-0477/88/11/pdf/i1520-0477-88-11-1729.pdf).

Introducing the Health Workforce Information Center

We are pleased to announce the launch of the Health Workforce Information Center (HWIC), funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. HWIC provides free access to the most recent resources on the nation’s health workforce in one easy-to-use online location – http://healthworkforceinfo.org.

HWIC’s comprehensive online library offers the latest on:

health workforce programs and funding sources;
workforce data, research and policy;
educational opportunities and models; and
news and events.

The HWIC Call Center
If you need help finding information or experts, HWIC’s information specialists provide FREE assistance customized to your specific needs.

Health Workforce News
Sign up for HWIC’s monthly e-mail newsletter, Health Workforce News.

About HWIC
The Health Workforce Information Center is funded by the Bureau of Health Professions, Health Resources and Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and operated by the Center for Rural Health at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences.

Keep checking the HWIC web site as it continues to grow in the coming months with new features and daily updates. We welcome your feedback – send comments and suggestions to feedback @ healthworkforceinfo .org.

“Alaska
Help us identify resources for Alaska

The State Resources section is a work in progress, being developed over the course of 2009. Do you know of health workforce information sources that should be featured for Alaska? HWIC is currently collecting resources, such as:

* Events
* Funding opportunities
* Organizations
* Publications
* Web sites
* News

Maps.

Send suggestions by email to info @ healthworkforceinfo . org or use our online suggest a resource form. Thank you for your assistance!”
http://www.healthworkforceinfo.org/states/introduction.php?topic=141

This list of teacher blogs started at Tundra Teachers November 10th, 2007 on my Edublog, I thought it might be easier to scan (peruse) if re-posted here.

• [Kangirsuk, Nunivik] Not Obscure (John Higham from Nunavik, Canada) http://notobscure.com/

• [Kongiganak, Toksook Bay, Tununak] Alaska The View From Up Here, (Brett Stirling who also writes for the Anchorage Daily News) http://alaskatheviewfromuphere.blogspot.com/

This year there are quite a few new teachers writing about their experience teaching in rural Alaska. All the blogs are different in their approach and frequency of posting. Some are interested in hearing from readers; others are not. Margaret Avugiak and Kendra Krenz have unique perspectives.

I haven’t run across anyone using blogs in the classroom, yet. The Shageluk school is using their website, instead.

• Shageluk school of birds

I wish more schools would use a blogging, especially WordPress.com and Edublogs.org, platform as that enables more communication between classrooms and between writers and readers. Plus, all the blogging platforms offer RSS feeds for subscribing; some offer comment feeds such as WordPress and Edublogs. (Blogspot.com or Blogger has too many hoops for ordinary folks who wish to interact with the authors. However, just about all the major blogging hosts are represented. MSN Live tends to be used more by missionaries. Xanga has too few representatives and TypePad tends to have Alaska journalists.)

Take a look at all and suggest others. The community names are in brackets [ ]. To view information about the Alaska communities, simply put the village or city name where the Xxxx are (case sensitive) in your browser address bar when you get to this link

http://www.commerce.state.ak.us/dca/commdb/CIS.cfm?Comm_Boro_Name=Xxxx
For example, information about Bethel is located here: http://www.commerce.state.ak.us/dca/commdb/CIS.cfm?Comm_Boro_Name=Bethel

Alakanuk

• [Alakanuk] Diane in Alaska http://dianneinalaska.livejournal.com/

Atmautluak

• [Atmautluak] Jerry’s Dream Come True, http://alaskajerry.blogspot.com/

• [Atmautluak] Tundra Teacher Tales, (Sue J. Nick) http://aan1atmau.blogspot.com/

  Interning at Akiuk, Kasigluk, Alaska. 2009-05-30 No longer interning but a graduate! Congratulations.

• [Oscarville, Atmautluak] Tundra Teacher Tales, (Kip Layton, Jr also writes for the Delta Discovery newspaper) http://tundrateachertales.blogspot.com/

Bethel

• [Bethel] Art Teacher in Alaska, http://alaskanteacher.blogspot.com/

• [Bethel] Tom & Andrea Go to Bethel Postcards from Bethel, (they also have a sidebar blogroll list of Tundra Teachers and resources for teaching science) http://learnscape.org/bethel

• [Bethel] Andrea’s Virtual Science Teaching Adventure http://learnscape.org/blog/

• [Bethel] Alisha’s Bethel Blog, http://alishaadventures.blogspot.com/

• [Bethel] Aug 19, 2008 North to the Future! http://goeok.blogspot.com/ another Jesuit Volunteer blog, but will be hosted with BABS (Bethel Alternative Boarding School)

• [Bethel] Oct 14, 2008 Adventures in AmyLand http://inamyland.blogspot.com/ Talent Search Director

• [Bethel and region] Sep 3, 2008 “The Great Alaskan Adventure” http://bethyinbethel.blogspot.com/

• [Bethel] Oct 22, 2008 http://keplerkids.blogspot.com/ What’s Happening A blog about Margaret, Kolin, Owen, and Spencer in Alaska. Margaret Kepler spouse of teacher

• [Bethel] Oct 22, 2008 “The Way She Goes “, http://brbethelak.blogspot.com/ b.r., I’m an itinerant CTE teacher in Bush Alaska.

Chefornak

• [Chefornak] The world of the Chicken Avenger (a Xanga user) http://www.xanga.com/wcbpolish

• Margaret Avugiak, (raised in the Village of Chefornak) http://avugiak.blogspot.com/ [Chefornak]

Chevak

• [Chevak] Oct 15, 2008 North to Alaska – http://annbender.blogspot.com/ Ann and Tom’s experiences in Chevak, Alaska. Ann Bender–Tom and I are both retired, sort of, and we are spending a couple of years in Chevak Alaska for the fun of it, for the challenge, and for a change. Hope we live through it. My former blog – the one that details our trip up here from Georgia and the first couple of months in Chevak is located at http://web.mac.com/annbender355/ I had load of trouble getting it to update, so finally gave up and joined Google.

Elim

• [Elim] Alaska = Home http://hikecamppaddle.wordpress.com/

Emmonak

• [Emmonak] http://richalaska.blogspot.com/ Richard Brisco

• [Emmonak] Katielong’s Travel Blogs http://www.travelpod.com/members/katielong

• [Emmonak] Jan 28, 2008 http://www.travelpod.com/members/katielong Katielong’s Travel Blogs

• [Emmonak] Feb 15, 2008 http://richalaska.blogspot.com/ Richard Brisco,

Hooper Bay

• [Hooper Bay] Sep 12, 2008 northwoodspam – http://northwoodspam.livejournal.com/

Huslia

• [Huslia, Norton Sound] Kristen in AK http://kristeninak.wordpress.com/

Kasigluk

• [Kasigluk] Out There(teacher, spouse) http://indefinitely.wordpress.com/ Peter Schneidler

• [Kasigluk (Akula)] Dec 20, 2008 The Substitute Puppy (I couldn’t get a dog, so I got a blog.) http://subpuppy.blogspot.com/ Kyle Marvin. The classroom blog is http://lksd.org/akula/Welcome.html/

• [Kasigluk Mar 4, 2008 http://victoriasjourneys.blogspot.com/, My Adventures, Victoria, I will be teaching 4th-6th grade and living in a house with no plumbing. http://classroomtag.blogspot.com/ Classroom Tag … Exchanging traditions, customs, beliefs, and other cultural identities. … Bringing together two classrooms that are separated by thousands of miles.

• [Akula, Kasigluk consists of two smaller villages, called Akiuk and Akula ] Nov 16, 2008 http://four2alaska.blogspot.com/ Four to Alaska (Ward Family) We’re moving to Alaska. Two teachers, two kids. Join us for stories, pics and news of our adventures as we leave Oklahoma and head north.

Kongiganak

• [Kongiganak] Rural Alaskan (Kendra Krenz raised in the Village of Kongiganak), http://ruralalaskan.blogspot.com/

Kotlik

• [Kotlik] Jan 31, 2009 “Pam’s Adventures in Alaska! ” http://pamcalyn.blogspot.com/

Kotzebue

• Keeping it Real at 66 Degrees North Latitude, Life the universe and everything 33 miles above the arctic circle. http://tundratantrum.blogspot.com/

Kwethluk

• [Kwethluk] Oct 14, 2008 Emily’s Teacher-y Blog: Going to Kwethluk, “Literacy Coordinator for the Kuspuk School District.”, http://publicationsteacher.blogspot.com/2008/10/going-to-kwethluk.html

Kwigillingok

• [Kwigillingok] Oct 20, 2008 http://sweatingthesmallstuff.typepad.com/sweating_the_small_stuff/ Lauren McClanahan, mostly not a teacher blog but there are recent posts about a student teacher based in Kwig that she is supervising from Washington.

McGrath

• [McGrath] Native Woman Educator http://nativeducator.blogspot.com/ Noel Strick

• [McGrath] Jul 8, 2008 J&M&8 http://jm8.blogspot.com/ Jeff and Monica Bauer

Mekoryuk

• [Mekoryuk] Radiate Warmth, welcome home to the fireplace of thought (Kale Iverson) http://kaleiverson.blogspot.com/

Napaskiak

• [Napaskiak] Dec 7, 2008 “Ay’atang’aq” http://yupikprincess.blogspot.com/

Nunapitchuk

• [Nunapitchuk] Fervent Verve {aka Ramblings} http://careyalaska.blogspot.com/

• [Nunapitchuk] The Middle of Somewhere Teaching, living, and now gestating a baby in Nunapitchuk, Alaska http://smaccalaska.blogspot.com/

• [Nunapitchuk] Shibby’s Kinda-Public Alaska Journal, http://shibbyalaska.blogspot.com/

• [Nunapitchuk] Jan 6, 2008 The Middle of Somewhere Teaching, living, and now gestating a baby in Nunapitchuk, Alaska http://smaccalaska.blogspot.com/

Oscarville

• [Oscarville] Dec 5, 2008 http://erinkavanaugh.blogspot.com/ Getting There From Here
  Erin Kavanaugh, Erin’s Class Blog – http://eekclass.blogspot.com/

• [Oscarville] May 12, 2008 Miss Christina Powers http://misschristinapowers.blogspot.com/

• [Oscarville] Aug 25, 2008 “Getting There From Here” http://erinkavanaugh.blogspot.com/ Erin Kavanaugh

Russian Mission

• [Russian Mission] Jul 5, 2008 Nastasia’s Window to Rural Living – http://yupikteacherinprogress.blogspot.com/

Savoonga

• [Savoonga] Oct 17, 2008 JBrodsky’s Alaskan JBlog, The adventures of a new teacher in Bush Alaska- http://jbrodsky.wordpress.com/

Shaktoolik

• [Shaktoolik] Apr 16, 2008 Teaching in Alaska, A young college graduate embarks on a year-long teaching experience in a remote Alaskan village. http://mrflarity.blogspot.com/

• [Shaktoolik] Apr 18, 2008 http://lindaskk.blogspot.com/ Linda and Bud’s Alaskan Adventure [a principal]

Shishmaref

• [Shishmaref] Mar 25, 2008 Northern Lights (Shishmaref school blog on WordPress.org platform) http://shishmaref.bssd.org/blog Ken Stenek

Toksook Bay

• [Toksook Bay] The Williamson-Logas in Alaska, http://otisandben.blogspot.com/ 2008 They’ve moved to Montpelier, VT, another great place to live but no tundra at that elevation.

• [Toksook Bay] Teaching in Toksook, http://dirksan.blogspot.com/

• [Toksook Bay] Jimmy and Kerri in Toksook Bay, Alaska, http://jimmyandkerri.blogspot.com/

Tuluksak

• [Tuluksak] Jan 26, 2009 Teaching In Alaska – http://www.teachinginalaska.net/ Joseph R. Costa

• [Tuluksak] Jan 26, 2009 Molly’s Weblog, http://mollydodd.wordpress.com/ computers, art, and study skills. There are also a series of class-related blogs on her sidebar.

• [Tuluksak] Aug 2, 2008 http://www.teachinginalaska.net/ Teaching In Alaska: A Journey of Self Discovery in the Wild North, Joe R. Costa

Tuntutuliak

• [Tuntutuliak] fouldsy.com (teacher spouse) http://www.fouldsy.com/

• [Tuntutuliak] AK Memories http://mariechristianson.blogspot.com/

Tununak

• [Tununak] Monica in Alaska, http://monicainalaska.livejournal.com/

• [Arctic Bay, Canada] Nov 20, 2008 Way Way Up http://waywayup.blogspot.com/, A blog about life above the Arctic Circle………Way, Way Up!
• [Canada] Nov 20, 2008 The House and other Arctic Musings -, Clare http://kiggavik.typepad.com/ (semi-retired educator?]

• [Arctic Bay, Nunavut, Canada] Nov 20, 2008 Tales from the Arctic – http://arcticteacher.blogspot.com/ Kennie

• [Baffin Island, Canada] Sep 3, 2008 Tales of the Arctic http://arcticteacher.blogspot.com/ Kennie. Look, I-Quad, they have water trucks just like ours.
  

  Via– The high cost of northern living, http://benmuse.typepad.com/arctic_economics/2008/09/the-high-cost-of-northern-living.html, Kennie, a blogger (Tales from the Arctic) and a teacher in Arctic Bay on Baffin Island, went through the grocery store and photographed product prices to prove something to her incredulous friends down south: Believe me now? $37.89 for six cans of Minute Maid juice?

• [Kuskokwim region?] Oct 17, 2008 “Moose, Mosquitos And Bears…oh my”, Donna http://alaskanmisadventures.blogspot.com/

• Alaska Mentor Pat http://alaskamentorpat.blogspot.com/ “I work around the state of Alaska as a mentor teacher. I travel monthly to 8 different rural communities as well as working in Fairbanks. My job is to collaborate with first and second year teachers on their classroom practice.”

• [Lower Kuskokwim School District] Mar 25, 2008 Science News from the Lower Kuskokwim (another Edublogs) http://lksdscience.edublogs.org/

• The great white hype, (Jesuit Volunteers) http://sarahjones-thegreatwhitehype.blogspot.com/

• Aug 19, 2008 Kevin & Dusti’s blog – http://kevindusti.vox.com/ Somewhere in the Kuskokwim, I think. Doesn’t say where, yet. From out of state.

• Alaska Professor http://alaskaprofessor.blogspot.com/

And there is this school, not exactly of children, but definitely learning and interesting.

• [Nushagak [Dillingham]] Nushagak Kennels http://nushagakkennels.blogspot.com/ , 2008-11-01 Nushagak has finally become aware– and moved to WordPress.com, http://nushagakkennels.wordpress.com, 2007-12-27 Bringing the work dog back into mushing APRN.org news story from Dillingham

For another idea of what life in a remote school is like check out this news story. Be sure to read the comments posted at APRN as well.

Teaching in small rural schools presents unique challenges (mp3)

“The Lake & Penninsula Borough has 14 schools but only 370 students. The smallest school has 10 students K-12. The largest has 75 students. Small schools in secluded parts of the state resent unique challenges to teachers who have to teach multiple subjects to multiple grade levels. Anne Hillman, KDLG – Dillingham 3/14/2008 06:17″

• [Newtok] Oct 18, 2008 An interview by BBC with Grant Kashatok, principal, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7668163.stm

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DCED location of Emmonak Alaska

This is just a brief note for those looking for information about the immediate heat and food problems originally reported in the Alaska Newspapers Emmonak man seeks food airlift to combat economic crisis.

[Mr Nicholas Tucker did a great job of detailing the issues in his letter to the newspaper, another example of grassroots science in action.]

The problems are discussed at Alaska Public Radio Extreme cold forcing Emmonak residents to choose fuel over food, at Alaska Real Another village in trouble and Another Alaskan village in trouble – follow-up, and at Alaska Mudflats among other places, Hope Coming to Emmonak and Beyond?.

All have information on how blog readers can help (see the comments at each site). Celtic Diva has the latest links to where the story is discussed, AK Village of Emmonak in dire need–**UPDATE WITH AUDIO** She reminds me of the earlier, 11 December 2008, story by Ted Land posted at KTUU about Martin Moore’s effort to get help from the state. Fuel shortage, cost have village seeking state assistance

Martin Moore has been coming to a borrowed Anchorage office for the past few months, making phone calls, writing letters, and setting up meetings with state officials advocating help with his village’s high fuel costs.

As mentioned in the comments at Mudflats, there are several communities in the Wade Hampton census area also in dire straits. There was a community meeting yesterday that included these other Villages, too. I hope to have more specifics later.

In the meantime, use the site search tags below for background information.

• Poorest places in the United States – Wikipedia
• Village search tags
• Alaska Community Database, click on the Alaska flag in the sidebar to find specific community information
• Sarah Palin, the elderly, the disabled, older Americans and rural Alaska
• Displaced person in Palin’s Alaska

map of Wade Hampton Census Area

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Most important blog event of the year 2008 seems to have been sometime between 28 August and 29 August, I guess. [where is Nowhere, Alaska ]

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Et Cetera

This is a continuing bibliography of sources of information, compiled by Dr. Krista Harper, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology and the Center for Public Policy and Administration, University of Massachusetts Amherst from suggestions by the list-serv E-Anth [A forum for discussing ecology and the environment in anthropology and related social sciences. For more information visit http://www.eanth.org

It is reproduced here with her permission.

This is not a definitive bibliography so please add references in the comments. Let me know if I need to make corrections of typos, etc.

For those of you without a background, I would suggest you look first at

• Dincauze, Dena F. 2000. Environmental Archaeology: Principles and Practice. Cambridge University Press. # ISBN-10: 0521310776 # ISBN-13: 978-0521310772

We often forget about prehistoric adaptations to climate change. "Nuclear Winter" is another key term for finding information and data about climate change and human effects.

Bumsted, M Pamela, ed. 1986 NUCLEAR WINTER: THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF HUMAN SURVIVAL
Proceedings of a session at the 84th annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, December 6, 1985, Washington, DC The Anthropology of Human Survival

There is also an earlier discussion about the human effects of global climate change, including anthropology and climate physics. Kellogg, William W., and Margaret Mead. 1977. The Atmosphere: endangered and endangering. Fogarty International Center proceedings, no. 39. [Bethesda]: U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health. http://13c4.wordpress.com/2007/11/29/anthropology-climate-change-war-environment-2/

• Bibliography compiled by Krista Harper 2008

Batterbury, S.P.J. 2008. Anthropology and global warming: the need for environmental engagement. The Australian Journal of Anthropology. 19 (1): 62-68 (AND WHOLE ISSUE).

Broad, K. 2000. El Nino and the Anthropological Opportunity. Practicing Anthropology 22(4): 20-3.

Broad, K., Orlove, B. 2007 Channeling globality: The 1997-98 El Ni? climate event in Peru. American Ethnologist 34(2):283-300

Crate, Susan A., and Mark Nuttall, eds. Anthropology and Climate Change: From Encounters to Actions. Left Coast Press, 2008.

Crate, Susan A. “Gone the Bull of Winter? Grappling with the Cultural Implications of and Anthropology’s Role(s) in Global Climate Change.” Current Anthropology 49.4 (2008): 569.

Cruikshank, Julie. Do Glaciers Listen?: Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters, and Social Imagination. Vancouver: UBC Press; 2005.

Dietz, T., R. Ruben and A. Verhagen, eds. “The Impact of Climate Change on Drylands: With a Focus on West Africa”

Firth, Raymond. 1959. Critical Pressures on Food Supply and their Economic Effects. Chapter 3 from Social Change in Tikopia, pp. 51-76. London: Allen and Unwin.

Gutierrez, Maria. All that is Air Turns Solid: The Creation of a Market for Carbon Sequestration by Trees Under the Kyoto Protocol. Ph.D. Graduate Center, CUNY, 2007

Hovelsrud, Grete K., et al. CAVIAR – Community Adaptation and Vulnerability in the Arctic Regions – CICERO. http://www.cicero.uio.no/projects/detail.aspx?id=30170&lang=EN. Accessed 2008.

“IPY: International Polar Year.” 03/25/08 2008. Accessed10/28/2008 http://classic.ipy.org/development/eoi/details.php?id=513.

Lahsen, Myanna. Comment on Susan A. Crate’s “Gone the Bull of Winter? Grappling with the Cultural Implications of and Anthropology’s Role(s) in Global Climate Change,” Current Anthropology 49, 4, August 2008, pp. 587-588

—– “Knowledge, Democracy and Uneven Playing Fields: Insights from Climate Politics in and between the U.S. and Brazil.” Book chapter in Knowledge and Democracy: A 21st-Century Perspective, ed. Nico Stehr. London: Transaction Publishers, 2008.

—– “Experiences of Modernity in the Greenhouse: A Cultural Analysis of a Physicist ‘Trio’ Supporting the Conservative Backlash Against Global Warming.” Global Environmental Change 18(1), 2008, pp. 205-219.

—– “Trust Through Participation? Problems of Knowledge in Climate Decision Making.” Chapter in The Social Construction of Climate Change: Power, Knowledge, Norms, Discourses, ed. Mary Pettinger. Ashgate Publishing, 2007, pp. 173-196. Electronically available at: http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/our_science_their_science/pubs/lahsen_2007_pettenger1.pdf

—– “Seductive Simulations: Uncertainty Distribution Around Climate Models.” Social Studies of Science 2005 35, 895-922. Electronically available at: http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/admin/publication_files/resource-1891-2005.49.pdf

—– “Technocracy, Democracy and U.S. Climate Science Politics: The Need for Demarcations.” Science, Technology, and Human Values, 30(1), 137-169 (2005). Electronically available at: http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/admin/publication_files/resource-1892-2005.50.pdf

—– “Transnational Locals: Brazilian Scientists in the Climate Regime.” Book chapter in Earthly Politics: Local and Global in Environmental Politics, edited by Sheila Jasanoff and Marybeth Long-Martello (MIT Press, 2004).

—–”Brazilian Climate Epistemers’ Multiple Epistemes: An Exploration of Shared Meaning, Diverse Identities and Geopolitics in Global Change Science.” Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (BCSIA). Discussion Paper 2002-01. Cambridge, MA: Environment and Natural Resources Program, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2002. Available at: http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/gea/pubs/2002-01.htm

—– “The Detection and Attribution of Conspiracies: The Controversy Over Chapter 8″ in George E. Marcus (ed.), Paranoia Within Reason: A Casebook on Conspiracy as Explanation, U. of Chicago Press, 1999. Available at: http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/admin/publication_files/resource-1893-1999.21.pdf

—– “Anthropology and the Trouble of Risk Society,” Anthropology News, Vol. 48, No. 9, December 2007, pp. 9-10. Accessible at: http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/admin/publication_files/resource-2584-2007.31.pdf

—– Climate Rhetoric: Constructions of Climate Science in the Age of Environmentalism. PhD Thesis, Rice University, 1998. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Bell & Howell Company.

—– “Earth System Governance: Research in aid of global environmental sustainability,” International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme Global Change Newsletter, 70, December 2007. Accessible at: http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/admin/publication_files/resource-2585-2007.32.pdf

Lahsen, Myanna, Carlos A. Nobre and Jean P. Ometto. 2008. “Global Environmental Change Research: Empowering Developing Countries.” Annals of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, vol. 80, no. 3, Sept.

Lahsen, Myanna, Carlos A. Nobre. “The Challenge of Connecting International Science and Local Level Sustainability: The Case of the LBA.” Environmental Science and Policy 10 (1), 2007, pp. 62-74. For electronic copy and web log discussions about this article, see: http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheus/archives/climate_change/001043lahsen_and_nobre_20.html

Lahsen, Myanna, Gunilla ?erg. The Role of Unstated Mistrust and Disparities in Scientific Capacity. Report published by The Swedish Institute for Climate Science and Policy Research, Link?ing University, Sweden, 2006. Second author: Gunilla ?erg. Available

Lazrus, Heather. “Island Vulnerability, Tuvalu.” Accessed 10/28/2008 http://www.islandvulnerability.org/tuvalu.html#lazrusphd. “Many Strong Voices.” 2008. 10/28/2008 http://www.manystrongvoices.org/.

Marx, S., Weber, E., Orlove, B. Leiserowitz, A. Krantz, D., Roncoli, C., Phillips, J. Two Communication and mental processes: Experiential and analytic processing of uncertain climate information. Global Environmental Change 17(1):47-58

May, Shannon. “Ecological Citizenship and a Plan for Sustainable Development.” City 12.2 (2008): 237.

May, Shannon. “Hope and Hazard in Rural China.” Far Eastern Economic Review (2008): 51-5.

McNeeley, Shannon. Climate Change and Variability in Interior Alaska: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Data Integration. http://www.2007amsterdamconference.org 2007 Amsterdam Conference, 2007.

Minnis, P. 1985. Social Adaptation to Food Stress: A prehistoric southwestern example. Univ of Chicago Press. Chapter 2: A Model of economic and organizational response to food stress. Pp. 12-42.

Orlove, B. 2005 Human adaptation to climate change: a review of three historical cases and some general perspectives. Environmental Science and Policy 8(6):589-600.

—–2008 Darkening Peaks: Glacier Retreat, Science and Society. Berkeley: California.

Orlove, B., Broad, K., Petty, A. 2004 Factors that influence the use of climate forecasts: Evidence from the 1997/98 El Nino event in Peru. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 85(11):1735-1743.

Orlove, B., Chiang, J., Cane, M. 2002 Ethnoclimatology in the Andes: A cross-disciplinary study uncovers a scientific basis for the scheme Andean potato farmers traditionally use to predict the coming rains. American Scientist 90(5):428-435.

Orlove, B., Chiang, J., Cane, M. 2000 Forecasting Andean rainfall and crop yield from the influence of El Ni? on Pleiades visibility. Nature 403:68-71.

Orlove, B., Tosteson, J. 1998 The application of seasonal to interannual climate forecasts based on El Ni?-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events: Lessons from Australia, Brazil, Ethiopia, Peru, and Zimbabwe. Working Papers in Environmental Politics 2. University of California, Berkeley, Institute of International Studies.

Orlove, B., Wiegandt, E., Luckman, B. H, 2008 The place of glaciers in natural and cultural landscapes. In Orlove, B., Wiegandt, E., Luckman, B. H, eds. Darkening peaks: glacial retreat, science and society. Berkeley: University of California Press. Pp. 3-19.

Parks, Bradley C., and J. Timmons Roberts. A Climate of Injustice: Global Inequality, North-South Politics, and Climate Policy. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006.

Puri, R. 2008. Climate Change as a Driver in Social-Ecological Systems. In Howard et al. 2008. Scientific Framework for GIAHS. FAO: Rome.

—– 2007. Responses to Medium-term Stability in Climate: El Ni?, Droughts and Coping Mechanisms of Foragers and Farmers in Borneo. In Modern Crises and Traditional Strategies: Local Ecological Knowledge and Island Southeast Asia. Edited by Roy Ellen. Pp. 46-83. Oxford: Berghahn Books. (see bibliography here for other ethnographic studies!!)

Pyke, C. R., et al. Climate Change and the Chesapeake Bay: State-of-the-Science Review and Recommendations. Annapolis, MD: A Report from the Chesapeake Bay Program Science and Technical Advisory Committee (STAC), 2008.

Rayner, S. 2003. Domesticating nature: commentary on the anthropological study of weather and climate discourse. In Strauss S and B.S. Orlove (eds). Weather, culture, climate, (pp277-290). Oxford: Berg.

Risbey 2007. The new climate discourse: Alarmist or alarming? Global Environmetal Change.

Roncoli, C. 2006. Ethnographic and participatory approaches to research on farmers’ responses to climate predictions. Climate Research 33: 81-99.

Salick, J. and Byg, A, eds, 2007. Indigneous Peoples and Climate Change. Report of Symposium 12-13 April 2007, Environmental Change Institute, Oxford. A Tyndall Centre Publication, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, Oxford. http://www.tyndall.ac.uk/publications/Indigenouspeoples.pdf

Silberner, Joanne. “In Highland Peru, a Culture Confronts Blight: NPR.” National Public Radio. March 3, 2008 2008. 10/28/2008 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=87811933.

Smith, Daniel Somers. “”Place-Based Environmentalism and Global Warming: Conceptual.” Ethics and International Affairs 15.2 (2001): 117-134.

Smith, Daniel Somers. “The Discipline of Nature: A History of Environmental Discourse in the Northern Forest of New England and New York.” Yale University: New Haven. Ph.D. Yale University, 2003.

Strauss S and B.S. Orlove (eds). Weather, culture, climate. Oxford: Berg. Tabeaud, Martine, de la Soudi?e, Martin, and Esther Katz. “R?eau perception du climat > pr?entation.” 06/20/2006 2006. 10/28/2008 http://www.perceptionclimat.net/index.php.

Vedwan, N. and Rhoades, R.E. 2001. Climate change in the Western Himalayas of India: A study of local perception and response. Climate Research 19: 109-17.

Waddell, E. 1975. How the Enga cope with frost: Responses to Climatic perturbations in the Central Highlands of New Guinea. Human Ecology 3: 249-73.

Ziervogel, G. et al. 2006. Adapting to Climate Variability: Pumpkins, People and Policy. Natural Resources Forum 30: 294-305

Table of contents of Anthropology and Climate Change: From Encounters to Actions, Crate and Nuttall, eds. 2008 Left Coast Press

Introduction PART 1: CLIMATE AND CULTURE 1. Human Agency, Climate Change and Culture: An Archaeological Perspective, Fekri A. Hassan, University College London // 2. Climate and Weather Discourse in Anthropology: From Determinism to Uncertain Futures, Nicole Peterson, Columbia University, and Kenneth Broad, University of Miami // 3. Fielding Climate Change: The Role of Anthropology, Carla Roncoli, University of Georgia, Todd Crane, University of Georgia, Ben Orlove, UC-Davis // 4. Disasters and Diasporas: Global Climate Change and Population Displacement in the 21st Century, Anthony Oliver-Smith, University of Florida

PART 2: ANTHROPOLOGICAL ENCOUNTERS 1. Climate Change and Melting Andean Glaciers: Indigenous and Anthropological Knowledge merge in Restoring Water Sources, Inge Bolin, Malaspina University College // 2. Salmon Nation: A Nez Perce Policy in Spite of Global Climate Change, Benedict J. Colombi, University of Arizona // 3. Gone the Bull of Winter?, Susan A. Crate, George Mason University // 4. Storm Warnings: The Role of Anthropology in Adapting to Sea-Level Rise in Southwestern Bangladesh, Timothy Finan, University of Arizona // 5. Opal Waters, Rising Seas: Climate Impacts on Indigenous Australians, Donna Green, University of New South Wales // 6. Sea Ice: The Socio-cultural Dimensions of a Melting Environment, Anne Henshaw, Bowdoin College // 7. From Local to Global: Perceptions of Environmental Change Among Kalahari San, Robert K. Hitchcock, Michigan State University // 8. Climate Change and El Ni?s in the West Central Highlands of Papua New Guinea: Indigenous Perceptions and Responses to Environmental Change and Deforestation, Jerry Jacka, North Carolina State University // 9. Sea Change: Anthropology and Climate Change in Tuvalu, South Pacific, Heather Lazrus, University of Washington // 10. Talking and Not Talking about Climate Change in Northwestern Alaska, Elizabeth Marino and Peter Schweitzer, University of Alaska Fairbanks // 11. Moral Certitude and the Anthropologist’s Outrage (pace Rosaldo), Sarah Strauss, University of Wyoming

PART 3: ANTHROPOLOGICAL ACTIONS 1. Shifting the University: Faculty Engagement and Curriculum Change, Peggy F. Barlett and Benjamin Stewart, Emory University // 2. Global Climate Change: Car Culture & Emissions, Lenora Bohren, Colorado State University // 3. Terms of Engagement: an Arctic perspective on the narratives and politics of global climate change, Noel D. Broadbent, Smithsonian Institute and Patrik Lantto, Ume?University // 4. The Efforts of One Gulf Coast Community to Deal with the Challenges of Climate Change, Gregory V. Button, University of Tennessee at Knoxville and Kristina Peterson, University of New Orleans // 5. Global Change Policymaking from Inside the Beltway: Engaging Anthropology, Shirley J. Fiske, Independent Consultant, Adjunct Professor, University of Maryland // 6. Living In a World of Movement: Human Resilience to Environmental Instability in Greenland, Mark Nuttall, University of Alberta // 7. Global Responsibilities, Local Realities: Negotiating the Cultural Dimensions, P.J. Puntenney, University of Michigan // 8. Anthropology and Climate Change: The Exhibition Thin Ice ﾗ Inuit Traditions within a Changing Environment, A. Nicole Stuckenberger, Dartmouth College // 9. Consuming Ourselves to Death, Richard Wilk, Indiana University Epilogue: Throwing up our hands or rolling up our sleeves

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[thimk]

my Grandfather, a wonderful caring man from Halifax and Pittsylvania counties Virginia, refused to vote for John Kennedy– because Kennedy was Catholic. My parents could first vote for  a President in 1960, because of the 12-month residency restrictions on voting then (until the voting rights act).

At 7:01 PM Alaska time, just as California polls closed, I burst into tears.

I wasn’t prepared for my reaction. It’s been a long time since 1960. Let’s hope Nixon and the southern strategy are gone for good.

[Maybe science will come back?]

[revised] 2008-11-05T21:17:58
My mother voted for Kennedy. It was not because he was Catholic. Both my parents voted for Kennedy because they had lived in California when Nixon ran against Helen Gahagan DOUGLAS (1900 – 1980). Under no circumstances would they have voted for Nixon for anything after his campaign against her.

I just confirmed with the Anchorage regional office of the Division of Elections–

• any registered Alaskan voter may vote anywhere (at any precinct, with or without a line)
• your vote will be a “question ballot”
• your vote will not be tallied for 10 days
• your vote for any of the local issues will NOT be counted and, naturally, you cannot vote for your own local issues and candidates when voting in another precinct
• your vote on statewide issues and candidates WILL be tallied/counted (in ten days).

Don’t be confused by “statewide”"– there is no national ballot in this country so on the statewide portion of the ballot, your vote for President/Vice-President, for Senator, and for House of Representatives will be tallied.

So, if you aren’t where you should be, go vote where you can!

Election Information in:
Central Yup’ik
Siberian Yupik
Inupiaq
Gwich’in Athabascan
Koyukon Athabascan

Tagalog Version: (pdf)
Estado ng Alaska Aplikasyon
ng Pagpaparehistro ng
Botante

2008 Estado ng Alaska
Aplikasyon ng Balotang Pang
Koreo Para sa Hindi
Makakarating

There are a lot of us in 2008. Those with greater resources left last year (2007); nearly 15% of Bethel by mid-summer 2007 according to the Chamber of Commerce. I haven’t heard this year’s figures and don’t know how they gather the data. By October 2007 it was evident the trend for losing middle class students in the high school was continuing, lessening the diversity needed in a thriving school community the size of Bethel. People had used all their savings or retirement (if any) to deal with the increased living expenses, combining families by moving in with relatives, or shutting all rooms except the one next to the oil stove (Thank goodness for Toyo stoves. Heating my small house/room is only 150 gallons a year).

Some members of the Legislature had proposed back then to offer a portion of our state’s surplus royalities back to the folks needing to cover the costs of that oil at retail. That was scuttled in favor of Sen Lyman’s proposal to fund landlords and homeowners to weatherize their buildings. There aren’t enough certified weatherization inspectors; limited refunds for weatherization won’t be released without a before and after inspection. The refunds won’t cover those who weatherized the year before (2007). [ http://aprn.org/2008/10/14/state-energy-rebate-program-undergoes-change/] The scheme is for refunds, requiring up front money for making renovations, after up front money is used for the inspections, if there were inspectors….

Gov. Palin says she gave everyone, man, woman, and infant, $1200 to cover this year’s energy needs. A lot of us could only use the money to leave home.

[The "energy rebate" and the permanent fund dividend (PFD) is enough to go from Bethel to Anchorage, but not enough to live on. If anyone knows of paid temping jobs, or permanent ones, please let me know. No CDL or clinical but I can type and read, 'rite, 'rithmetic  ;o) ]

“Saying goodbye, thank you”, http://deltadiscovery.com/letters/letters.html
“Leaving Bethel with legacy of helping”, http://thetundradrums.com/section/letters

I have worked for many years with the people of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta on issues of health, environment, heritage and cultural resources, elders, science teachers, and information technology.

Unfortunately, I must now say goodbye and thank you as I must relocate away from Bethel. This won’t stop my support of grassroots science, elder participation, and thoughtful solutions from the communities of the Delta. Relocation won’t end my friendships, won’t end my learning, and won’t end my substantiated belief in the abilities of people out here to contribute to world knowledge and culture. (It has been a struggle to convince some organizations, governments, and institutions of such value, as many of you know, whether the issue was Village erosion or elder rights or cleaning up dumps or environmental health or protection of natural resources or emergency preparedness.)

I have seen many of my neighbor kids grow into productive adults. Thank you for what you have taught me. I have worked with incredible scientists and thinkers, though many won’t have formal training beyond high school. I have also learned from those who put in immense effort and sacrifice in formal settings so that we may benefit from their pastoral or technical caring. By their works I have known them.

While I am moving to a new home, I am still supporting rural Alaska and Alaska Natives through the website http://ykalaska.wordpress.com Virtual reality isn’t quite the same as “real reality” but please help me stay in touch through the website.

All through my life I have tried to live by the basic tradition of science and education–

Just as people must share seal meat and oil to maintain physical and social well-being, so, too, must they share knowledge–so that their minds will not rot.

I hope I have lived up to this while in Bethel.
M Pamela Bumsted, Grassroots Science
Bethel, AK

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• Home heating assistance program opened today with big budget bump Wed, October 1, 2008
• Anchorage homeless numbers rising Wed, October 1, 2008
• Bush costs prompt exodus to cities Task force urged to stem migration By JULIA O’MALLEY and KYLE HOPKINS Daily News reporters Published: September 29th, 2008 11:32 PM

Site Search Tags: Tundra+Drums, Delta+Discovery, migration, energy, erosion, Sarah Palin, demography, environmental+change, economy, rural+development

I asked one of the anthropology newslists to publish Ann Dunham’s bibliography. In the meantime, this article provides a bit of context for the current election season.

“Anthropological perspective” is difficult to define, but if one is lucky enough to be exposed to it, it proves invaluable for running corporations or countries or non-profits or farm co-ops. Anthropology is the comprehensive, comparative study of people in space and time.

Holistic perspective of the environment (change with time)

Obama’s mother’s work, focus of seminar

Posted on: Friday, September 12, 2008
By Dan Nakaso
…
Sen. Barack Obama’s approach to economic and foreign policy most likely was influenced by the research his mother conducted decades ago through the University of Hawai’i.

Obama’s mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, who died of cancer in 1995, earned her doctorate at the University of Hawai’i while helping craftsmen in Indonesia and Africa get small loans to improve their lives and their villages, and ended up becoming an expert in “micro lending.”

Dunham’s work — from an anthropology undergraduate to her doctoral dissertation — will be discussed today at a free seminar at UH called, “Dr. Stanley Ann Dunham: An Extraordinary Woman and Her Work.”
…

UH professor emeritus Alice G. Dewey, Dunham’s graduate anthropology adviser, who will be speaking in today’s program, said Dunham “made it clear that you had to understand what they (the people you hope to help) are doing and for what. The implication for Sen. Obama is that if you’re going to do something intended to help somebody, you better understand the implications and whether it’s suited to the economics of that place. Just throwing money at a problem doesn’t do it. You really have to understand what you’re doing in order to help people.”

…
“However this election turns out, it’s important for us to focus on her in a way we haven’t to date. She is a significant figure in women’s history in Hawai’i and we need to take a look at her and be proud of her as a UH-Manoa student and show our female students that they can do anything.”

Much of the discussion will focus on the scholarly aspects of Dunham’s work in Indonesia — “her knowledge of Indonesian craftsmanship and her efforts in micro-financing,” said one of the organizers…

The implications are profound for potential U.S. policies around the world, Dewey said….

In Indonesia, Dunham home-schooled Obama and gave birth to his sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, who now teaches at La Pietra School and plans to be in the audience at today’s presentation.

“There was a recognition that we could change the world by helping as many people as possible in the lower economic tiers to empower themselves so they could have some decision-making power over their own lives,” Soetoro-Ng said.

“Our mother’s work greatly influenced my brother’s commitment to service and to inclusiveness and to grass-roots democracy, obviously democratic decision making. Those commitments were certainly imbedded in his list of priorities, in part because of her example.”…

Her life of service is something to which we should all aspire. [...]

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• http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/200809120100/NEWS05/809120379

Ann’s most lasting professional legacy was to help build the microfinance program in Indonesia, which she did from 1988 to ‘92—before the practice of granting tiny loans to credit-poor entrepreneurs was an established success story. Her anthropological research into how real people worked helped inform the policies set by the Bank Rakyat Indonesia, says Patten, an economist who worked there. “I would say her work had a lot to do with the success of the program,” he says. Today Indonesia’s microfinance program is No. 1 in the world in terms of savers, with 31 million members, according to Microfinance Information eXchange Inc., a microfinance-tracking outfit.

• http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1729524-7,00.html

Analytical anthropology includes the study and application of biocultural variation and adaptation in complex, non-linear, dynamic systems (simply, you and yours). We’re very good at working with communities (nuclear physicists or public health epidemiologists or seal hunters or small town mayors but not dinosaurs, silly. Those are paleontologists.) to accurately assess difficult problems and create sustainable, innovative solutions. Anthropologists, not afraid to skin a moose with a stone knife, explain the half-life of stable carbon to bureaucrats, diagnose the organizational culture of foreign enterprises, or redesign hockey rinks for efficiency.

Site Search Tags: anthropology, community+development, community+service, sustainability, Obama, Hawai’i

from the ever wonderful The Why Files — http://whyfiles.org (University of Wisconsin)

Today’s date: 11 Sep 2008

Questioning candidates
[28 Aug 2008] The candidates are skirting issues related to environment, energy and science policy. Heard promising plans for greener energy, solid science advice, or coping with the decline of oil? We neither… (More…)

And now, on to non-Palin Alaska news.

The godwits arrive in New Zealand from Alaska, skinny and tired and early. New Zealand’s One News says conservationists are worried why the birds took such a quick exit [sic] from their Alaska homeland.

The bar-tailed godwit arrives in New Zealand after a non-stop 11,000-kilometer flight over the Pacific, landing tired, worn out and starved.

Godwits have been steadily losing large chunks of their feeding grounds in Asia, where the birds stop over on their return trip to Alaska at the end of the summer.
http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/newsreader/story/520577.html

Previous godwit

It’s not just godwits that are antipodean

Godwits, godwits, godwits

More on the godwits

The godwits are coming

Birds sampled 1988-2004

Our birds Polynesia

[2008-09-12 Additions Sarah Palin has never been to Diomede. When not collecting per diem, Palin is Where is …. nearest US capitol]

Before Google Earth and Terraserver and the rest was the PARC research lab of Xerox (inventor of the mouse and of GUI, I believe). They no longer run the map.

I still prefer their perspective to depict spatial relationships in many contexts. Here is plotted Fairbanks Alaska (red square), the Yukon River in Alaska, the International Dateline (purple line), and the rest of the US.

Just a step over the dateline, where it passes closest to Alaska, is Russia. Juneau is about 3 meridians east. Wasilla is about the lower west corner of the red square.

Compare Alaska to lower 48 distances

This is the best map to show the relationship of Alaska to the lower 48. National geographic has overlaid Alaska such that it demonstrates Alaska stretches from Jacksonville FL to San Francisco CA. I’ve added markers for Russia and Little Diomede, Bethel, Wasilla, and Juneau.

• Where in Alaska relative to US 48 – http://ykalaska.wordpress.com/2006/03/31/where-in-alaska-relative-to-us-48/

hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/gmdctr1.ctr00037

The National Geographic Society’s incorporation of illustration with relief cartography portrays the grandeur and uniqueness of the Alaskan landscape in relation to towns, highways, and parks. Regarded as pioneering map illustrators, the National Geographic Society frequently adopts this techniques in maps produced as part of its exploration studies. This Alaska map was included as a supplement to the May 1994 issue of the National Geographic magazine.

Location map of Diomede Alaska

[revised] 2008-10-20 Finally, ADN had background on Todd Palin’s family, Yup’ik ties give Palins unique Alaska connection NATIVE: Grandmother on Todd’s side calls the governor a ’special gal.’ By TOM KIZZIA tkizzia@adn.com Published: October 19th, 2008 11:20 PM. Anthropologically or historically, this background information is important because it reflects a lot of Alaskan history and because Todd’s wife is running for Vice-President. Unfortunately, a lot of Sarah Palin’s supporters and Palin herself have used Todd’s grandmother as a qualification for political office. The argument Palin has used is that she automatically has the best interests of Alaska Native/American Indian, rural Alaska, and tribal issues because of her husband’s family. Grandmothers are important in the 2008 election, whether Sen. Obama’s or Gov. Palin’s in-laws. But actions rather than inheritance are clearer guides to integrity, in my opinion. Assuming that inheritance determines behavior is called “biological determinism” and is well demonstrated as false as any other racist assumption.

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After last Friday, there is no point in trying to correct what others in the country say about our native people in the Yukon Kuskokwim Nushagak region. Occasionally in the past I did try to inform news writers about how to improve their stories (professional journalists really ought to know how to look up answers). Even in Alaska, most people don’t know rural Alaska (because most people live in Anchorage).

I don’t know Todd Palin or his family. I read he was born in Dillingham along the Nushagak River of Bristol Bay; one of his great(?)grandparents is of Yup’ik heritage. [Todd’s grandmother grew up in a traditional Yup’ik Eskimo house in Bristol Bay and accompanied Sarah in her race for governor as she sought support from ... http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/stories/2008/08/29/CAMPAIGN_PALIN_odds.html]
As a child, he moved to Wasilla, where he met Sarah first during high school.

I just ran across this news story about the Yup’ik people in Eek, along the Kuskokwim River of Kuskokwim Bay. It is well written and gives a valid characterization of how Eskimo and Gussack (non-Eskimo, from the Russian), that is, Alaska Native and non-Alaska Native people, live in remote Alaska today.

Remote Alaskan village hangs onto heritage
by Mark Constantine | The Saginaw News
Sunday August 31, 2008, 9:00 AM

EEK, Alaska — The sun hangs low in the sky in mid-July, just above the distant horizon, bathing the gently waving tundra grass in the soft, warm glow of early evening.

But it’s midnight and nightfall, or what the nearly 300 residents of the tiny village of Eek, Alaska, on the Eek River in the Yukon Kuskokwim Delta call night, remains an hour away. [...]
http://www.mlive.com/saginawnews/living/index.ssf/2008/08/remote_alaskan_village_hangs_o.html

• Eek Alaska http://www.commerce.state.ak.us/dca/commdb/CIS.cfm?Comm_Boro_Name=Eek
• Dillinghamhttp://www.commerce.state.ak.us/dca/commdb/CIS.cfm?Comm_Boro_Name=Dillingham
• Bristol Bay Native Association. Inc. is a Tribal Consortium, made up of 31 Tribes and is organized as a non-profit corporation to provide a variety of educational, social, economic and related services to the Native people of Bristol Bay region of Alaska. http://www.bbna.com/
• The Bristol BayTimes newspaper (pdf)

For good writing and perspectives on national politics and the effects on Alaska and Alaska Natives stop by Writing Raven http://alaskareal.blogspot.com/

2008sep01 I have a listing of various teacher blogs from those teaching and learning in the rural Alaska, Tundra Teachers – http://cerebraloddjobs.edublogs.org/2007/11/10/tundra-teachers/ Some post more regularly than others. Most bloggers are new to teaching and Alaska, but the ones written by long-time Alaskans and Alaska Native teachers are particularly interesting.

Related posts specific to Sarah Palin
http://ykalaska.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/where-is-palin-and-bridge-to-nowhere-alaska/
http://ykalaska.wordpress.com/2008/08/31/todd-palin-sarah-palins-husband-and-rural-alaska-living/
http://ykalaska.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/where-is-wasilla-gov-sarah-palins-residence/
http://ykalaska.wordpress.com/2008/08/30/sarah-palin-content/

revised 2009-07-03 A good summary of recent events of former Gov. Palin is Palin Resigns: Exit stage right

revised 2008-10-15 A good summary of Gov. Palin in Alaska is

• Sarah Palin, A View From Anchorage Listen Now [41 min 28 sec] add to playlist Fresh Air from WHYY, October 15, 2008 · Supporters and detractors alike can’t seem to get enough of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. Anchorage Daily News columnist Michael Carey discusses the woman who promises to bring “a little bit of reality from Wasilla Main Street” to Washington, DC.

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Cama’i visitors.

Local results for ‘Palin’ using the search box. You may also use the site search tag in each post, Sarah+Palin.

WordPress.com doesn’t have the best internal search engine, but I’m usually good about using the tags correctly. If you want to know more about Alaska and Alaska Natives, including Eskimo people, especially Yup’ik people of the Yukon Kuskokwim Nushagak region, try using the categories in the sidebar or the site search tags at the bottom of each post.

The Nushagak River is in the Bristol Bay region (Dillingham is the hub. The link opens in a new window) from which Todd Palin’s family comes.

• Where is… Palin and bridge to Nowhere Alaska
• Where is… Wasilla (Gov. Sarah Palin’s residence)
• Most popular in 2007, 2008 YKWP (boring post)
• Electricity disaster declarations in Alaska
• Tsunami Awareness Week
• Bethel “town hall” meeting on AGIA
• Gov. Palin 2008 State of the State address
• Ask the Governor (maybe in Bethel)
• Briefs 4
• Mass disease pass, 2007
• Rhonda McBride appointed rural advisor to Gov. Palin
• E-mail the Governor

Our terrific state-wide public radio network is offering a reprise of their hour-long show about Governor Palin. Listen here, AK: Sarah Palin, Revisited

Related posts specific to Palin–

• http://ykalaska.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/where-is-palin-and-bridge-to-nowhere-alaska/
• Todd Palin, Sarah Palin’s husband, and rural Alaska living
• http://ykalaska.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/where-is-wasilla-gov-sarah-palins-residence/
• http://ykalaska.wordpress.com/2008/08/30/sarah-palin-content/(This post)
• Where is… Sarah Palin foreign experience (Russia)

revised 2008-08-31 Because Gov. Palin has offered her credentials as commander of the National Guard, here is the category for related posts here– Eskimo Guard For those who have read several news stories quoting the Alaska Business Journal Monthly story, March 2007 (? looking for the original article), the end of 2006, on the Governor’s response to the Iraq surge, may be interested in this post, What impact will Iraq war call-up have from June 2006. State governors don’t usually have much involvement in US wars, and naturally would be more interested in state affairs. But this US war has called up our National Guardsmen.

revised 2008-09-04

“Alaska is on the map” is the recent slogan. Actually, Alaska has always been on the map. In fact, all over the map and maps. Click the category maps to find out where all we’ve been put now.

Other reasonable writings (i.e., respectful and insightful) –
Read Writing Raven on Sarah Palin and Alaska Native Issues

Mudflats on photos of Wasilla, church in Wasilla, global photogs and newsmedia in Wasilla, et al. Sarah Palin’s Preacher Problem. End Times Coming?

Shannyn Moore, also an Alaska woman, daughter of teachers, “Bitter-Proud”? (hard to read theme so use your own style sheet)

Andrew Halcro, Palin for VP: The S.W.O.T Analysis, who keeps up with bailouts of local dairies, “troopergate”, Governor’s gasline to be built by foreigners.

Good grief. I have overlooked the O’Folks off their Rocker much earlier post  over at –

• Gov Sarah Palin call-in KYUK (January 2008)
• Sarah Palin, the elderly, the disabled, older Americans and rural Alaska ( Sept 2, 2008)

This is a good summary, from Slate. The Sarah Palin FAQ Everything you ever wanted to know about the Republican vice presidential nominee. By Derek Thompson Posted Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008, at 5:39 PM ET

2008-09-10 Michael Carey has consistently provided balanced and accurate information. Listen to him at NPR,

• Analysis: Finding The Real Palin In Her Convention Speech
  Sep-07-2008, Weekend Edition – Sunday…as his vice-presidential running mate, details of her career and family life have been scrutinized closely. Anchorage Daily News columnist Michael Carey has been following Palin since…

Now that the Republicans have placed a woman (Gov. Sarah Palin) on the national ticket, 24 years after the Democratic Party, folks seem to wonder again about the Bridge to Nowhere. One of the bridges is in Ketchikan. The other is the Knik bridge which would have connected Anchorage to Senator Lisa Murkowski’s designated new home. [see update to this, below]

But the Ketchikan bridge is the principle one in the spotlight with Sarah Palin’s new role as vice-presidential nominee, the McCain-Palin ticket.

Proposed Gravina Island bridge going nowhere | APRN
Sep 21, 2007 … Governor Palin announced today that the state is abandoning plans to construct the Gravina bridge. One of the two infamous bridges to …

http://aprn.org/2007/09/21/proposed-gravina-island-bridge-going-nowhere/

“Ketchikan
(KETCH-ih-kan)”
http://www.commerce.state.ak.us/dca/commdb/CIS.cfm?Comm_Boro_Name=Ketchikan

Here is a link to the map and story about the other nowhere bridge (the one to Sen Murkowski and shortcut to Wasilla)
Alaska Congressmen Attempt to Earmark ‘Bridge to Nowhere’ For Personal Profiteering

PS– It’s PAY-lin

[revised 2008-08-31] Gov Palin did NOT reject the pork from Sen. Stevens. She said there wasn’t enough money to finish the bridge so directed the same nowhere money to other road system projects. Good for the road system, which cover less than 1/3 of the state.

Under mounting political pressure over pork projects, Congress stripped the earmark – or stipulation – that the money be used for the airport, but still sent the money to the state for any use it deemed appropriate.

The state took much of that for other projects around the state.

Palin on Friday said the Ketchikan project was $329 million short of full funding.

“It’s clear that Congress has little interest in spending any more money on a bridge between Ketchikan and Gravina Island,” Palin said…

The DOT will prepare a list of projects across the state where the $36 million in federal funds that was set aside for Gravina Island could be used. [...]

http://dwb.adn.com/news/alaska/story/9320482p-9235189c.html

[revised again]
I’m not on the road system so miss a lot of the bridge’s history. Here is a summary from Mudflats,
Palin is McCain’s Bridge to Nowhere. Thanks, But No Thanks.

2009-01-31 “New cost estimate for Knik Arm bridge: $680 million (Daily News politics blog): The bridge authority has long used a rough estimate of between $450 million and $600 million for spanning Knik Arm between Anchorage and Point MacKenzie.”
http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/newsreader/story/673205.html

2008-09-04 Posts specific to Palin info–
http://ykalaska.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/where-is-palin-and-bridge-to-nowhere-alaska/
http://ykalaska.wordpress.com/2008/08/31/todd-palin-sarah-palins-husband-and-rural-alaska-living/
http://ykalaska.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/where-is-wasilla-gov-sarah-palins-residence/
http://ykalaska.wordpress.com/2008/08/30/sarah-palin-content/

News media have described Wasilla, formerly mayored by Sarah Palin, with population size all over the place. For the latest population figures and other data, press that Alaska state flag in the sidebar or go here–

http://www.commerce.state.ak.us/dca/commdb/CIS.cfm?Comm_Boro_Name=Wasilla

Location map of WAH-sill-ah Alaska

2008-09-04 Related posts specific to Palin info

http://ykalaska.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/where-is-palin-and-bridge-to-nowhere-alaska/
http://ykalaska.wordpress.com/2008/08/31/todd-palin-sarah-palins-husband-and-rural-alaska-living/
http://ykalaska.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/where-is-wasilla-gov-sarah-palins-residence/
http://ykalaska.wordpress.com/2008/08/30/sarah-palin-content/

7,028 (2007 DCCED Certified Population)

for the first time, I voted in Yup'ik

For the first time since the Voting Rights Act of 1965, people have been able to read voter education materials, voter assistance materials, and voter ballot in Yup’ik, the indigenous language of Bethel.

These stickers are handed out to voters to wear to remind others to come vote. This is the first ever sticker in Yup’ik and English.

I voted early (saves money and pollution to combine errands) so Dave T., elder of renown, brought me the sticker from election day.

2008-09-04 update

Yup’ik language-assisted primaries scrutinized

The Alaska primary elections were watched for the outcome of contentious ballot measures.

But the results of an untried system to help Yup’ik speakers vote, used for the first time during the Aug. 26 primaries, are still coming in. Both sides in a lawsuit over the issue are watching those outcomes very closely[...] http://thetundradrums.com/news/story/3165

In contrast to the meetings by already elected officials, it has been easier to find contact info and meeting times for nominee meetings in Bethel. There will be a potluck involved. This is part of the swing through rural Alaska by the campaign.

• Bethel Campaign for Change Kickoff Rally (Official Event) Join us on Wednesday, August 27th to officially kick off Obama’s Campaign for Change in Bethel. A potluck is planned before hand from 4-6pm, so bring a covered dish, beverages, or snacks and share in the excitement! Time: Wednesday, August 27 at 4:00 PM Duration: 3 hours Host: Jonathan Teeters Contact Phone: 907-677-6052 Location: TBD (Bethel, AK) Associated Groups: Alaska Action Team, Alaska Natives for Obama

Events are easily found through the main website, Obama for America http://www.barackobama.com
The Alaska page is “Welcome to Alaska for Obama” http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/akhome

Not sure how much besides greetings can be conveyed, but at least you will have a chance to make contacts to send your concerns and issues and suggestions to.

2008-08-25 Place: Catholic church social hall, down by Swanson’s store.

Listen to the story of the Obama campaign rural presence at http://aprn.org/2008/08/22/obama-campaign-staff-travels-to-barrow/

This is the extent of any notice I can find. I did contact the Senator through her website about when, where, who, format, etc. There hasn’t been any local notice that I am aware of, but usually these things are not well advertised.

Supposed to be Thursday, the 28th of August 2008.

Energy meeting set for Thursday
The Associated Press

Published: August 24th, 2008 02:02 AM
Last Modified: August 24th, 2008 02:02 AM

BETHEL — Sen. Lisa Murkowski has scheduled a hearing in Bethel this week to explore the impact of soaring energy prices in rural Alaska.

The Alaska Republican says the Thursday hearing will be before the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs.

Murkowski’s office says panel participants will include Native leaders as well as federal and state officials.

Topics to be discussed include the impact of high energy costs on the future of traditional lifestyles and whether the federal government is doing enough to support the development of energy resources in rural parts of the state.
http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/503490.html

Site Search Tags: deadline, energy, Sen+Murkowski, Indian+Affairs, Bethel, Kuskokwim,

Gem asked several interesting questions on the Ringworm post about how much “housekeeping” is safe and reasonable and what additional steps could be taken for habitat ringworm. That is, if one does the usual steps to prevent the fungus and looks for the obvious culprits, what else can one prudently do?

I’m reluctant to offer any other suggestions as I am at the limit of my knowledge. A couple of things to keep in mind–

• People are very large (micro)organisms. So what kills fungus, bacteria,  etc. will also disrupt the big stuff (us) with a large enough dose or frequent enough application  or mixed with something else. Much the way chemotherapy can be said to kill the cancer cells but just before it kills the body, there needs to be a careful balance between treatment and over-treatment.

• Be sure you know what you are dealing with. Lots of conditions look similar but may have different causes and thus different treatments. For ringworm, I would rely on someone skilled in diagnosing different kinds of skin lesions.

I asked the veterinary Worms-and-germs folks http://www.wormsandgermsblog.com/ to do a post or commentary here about ringworm but haven’t heard back, yet.

On topic and timely, Olympic ringsworm–

J&J Wins Favored Status By Curing Statue Fungus Woes
By JASON LEOW in Beijing and SHIRLEY S. WANG and KELLY CROW in New York
August 18, 2008; Page A16

Inside Olympian sneakers in Beijing surely rages a case or two of athlete’s foot.

But that fungus no longer plagues a handful of 2,000-year-old statues here, which explains why China lent the artifacts to the corporate pavilion of Johnson & Johnson. A maker of athlete’s foot cream for half a century, J&J helped rescue one of China’s most precious archaeological treasures from a damaging athlete’s-foot-like fungus.

“We know everything about fungus,” says Chong Siong Hin, a J&J executive.

… The statues are called terracotta warriors…

Upon Emperor Qin’s death, he and his warriors were sealed in his mausoleum and forgotten until 1974, when owners of a persimmon orchard discovered the site while digging a well.

Archaeologists hailed the terracotta warriors as the find of the century. But soon after they were unearthed, heat and humidity attracted tiny spores of tinea pedis and other types of fungus that attacked the clay statues. Fungi excrete acid that began corroding the relics….

About a decade later, J&J learned of the fungus problem and started to wage battle against it.

Never having fought fungus on nonhumans, J&J invested years and hundreds of thousands of dollars researching molds on clay tiles and flowerpots.

Museum officials sent chunks of terracotta to J&J’s laboratory outside Antwerp, Belgium, to test for organisms. Ultimately, J&J and Chinese scientists identified 60 different fungi growing on the statues, including a variation of athlete’s foot.

The identification of the fungus helped to lead to the development of some fungicides that are proving effective. [...]

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121901745077548227.html

The mention of acid in the passage brings up an aspect of fungus habitat I haven’t read about– pH of the skin surface. I suppose it might be worth daubing on Milk of Magnesia as a counterbalance (this was supposed to work to get rid of tomato blisters around the mouth, but I have NOT seen any demonstration that this in fact occurs). Does anyone have suggestions that are demonstrated safe and effective , please comment here.

Site Search Tags: fungus, ringworm, atheletes+foot, Olympics, archaeology, jock+itch, feedback, comments, anti-fungal, Dettol, Lysol

National Public radio had two good stories about this, yesterday Antibodies To 1918 Flu Found In Elderly Survivors and today, Antibodies To 1918 Flu Resurrected

Once again, an illustration of how important it is to learn from the people who witnessed the 1918/1919 pandemic.

Public release date: 17-Aug-2008
Contact: Craig Boerner
craig.boerner @ vanderbilt .edu
615-322-4747
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
1918 flu antibodies resurrected from elderly survivors

Ninety years after the sweeping destruction of the 1918 flu pandemic, researchers at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt have recovered antibodies to the virus – from elderly survivors of the original outbreak.

In addition to revealing the surprisingly long-lasting immunity to such viruses, these antibodies could be effective treatments to have on hand if another virus similar to the 1918 flu breaks out in the future.

The study, led by James Crowe Jr., M.D., professor of Pediatrics and director of the Vanderbilt Program in Vaccine Sciences, Christopher Basler, Ph.D., at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and Eric Altschuler, M.D., Ph.D., at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-New Jersey Medical School, is published online in the journal Nature.

The influenza pandemic of 1918 killed nearly 50 million people worldwide, many of whom were young, healthy adults. With fears of another looming flu pandemic stoked by the emergence of “bird flu” in Asia, researchers have wanted to study the 1918 virus and the immune response to it.

In 2005, researchers from Mount Sinai and the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington, D.C., resurrected the 1918 virus from the bodies of people killed in the outbreak. The bodies, and the virus, had been preserved in the permanently frozen soil of Alaska.

When the investigators approached Crowe, whose lab had developed methods of making antibodies, to try to make antibodies to the 1918 flu, he was skeptical, but agreed to try.

The researchers collected blood samples from 32 survivors age 91-101 years and found that all reacted to the 1918 virus, suggesting that they still possessed antibodies to the virus.

Crowe’s team was then able to isolate exceedingly rare B cells – the immune cells that produce antibodies – from eight of those samples and grow them in culture. Seven of those samples produced antibodies to a 1918 virus protein, suggesting that their immune systems were waiting on standby for a long-awaited second outbreak.

“The B cells have been waiting for at least 60 years – if not 90 years – for that flu to come around again,” Crowe said. “That’s amazing…because it’s the longest memory anyone’s ever demonstrated.”

Crowe’s team then fused cells showing the highest levels of activity against the virus with “immortal” cells to create a cell line that secretes monoclonal (or identical) antibodies to the 1918 flu. The antibodies reacted strongly to the 1918 virus and cross-reacted with proteins from the related 1930 swine flu but not to more modern flu strains.

To test if these antibodies still work against 1918 flu in a living animal, Crowe’s collaborators at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention infected mice with the 1918 flu and then administered the antibodies at varying doses. Mice receiving the lowest dose of 1918 antibody – and those receiving a non-reactive “control” antibody – died. All mice given the highest doses of 1918 antibodies survived.

Although aging typically causes immunity to weaken, “these are some of the most potent antibodies ever isolated against a virus,” Crowe said. “They’re the best antibodies I’ve ever seen.”

The findings suggest that B cells responding to a viral infection – and the antibody-based immunity that results – may last a lifetime, even nine or more decades after exposure.

These antibodies could be used as potential treatments for future outbreaks of flu strains similar to the 1918 virus. And the technology could be used to develop antibodies against other viruses, like HIV.

Most importantly, said Crowe, “the lessons we are learning about the 1918 flu tell us a lot about what may happen during a future pandemic.”

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Researchers at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, Calif., also contributed to the study. The work was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-08/vumc-1fa081508.php

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We’ve mentioned previously how important history is for understanding the science of pandemics and how people respond (good and bad examples). The folks around Seattle Washington have used history in an unusual format to present the need for preparedness and how to begin getting prepared. The comic or “graphic novel” format doesn’t trivialize the problem or the audience. Instead, it can help by removing the reader a step from the grim necessity (as a comic and as a historical dramatization) and by presenting the essence of preparation graphically, followed by resources for further study.

The comics are available now in pdf file format in the following languages. The Avian Flu Diary brought this to attention, http://afludiary.blogspot.com/2008/07/seattle-king-county-no-ordinary-flu.html

To promote pandemic flu preparedness, Public Health – Seattle & King County has developed a 12-page comic book on pandemic flu. Targeting readers of all ages, this story tells the tale of a family’s experience of the 1918 influenza pandemic. It also explains the threat of pandemic flu today, illustrates what to expect during a pandemic (such as school closures), and offers tips to help households prepare.

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The Native Access to Engineering Programme in Canada has long invested in supporting primary and secondary teachers. They have a bi-weekly newsletter which brings suggestions for science, math, and engineering resources. They also run an annual conference.

Teacher Magazine tossed this question into the TLN Forum If you were writing a mini-memoir of your teaching life, what would your six words be? Your memoir might be funny, inspirational, profound, mundane, deeply true. Want to play? Mull it over, doodle with pen and napkin or your favorite digital tool, and post your memoir for all of us to read.

Here are a few of their favourites -

They asked. I listened. We learned.

- Every day is a new adventure. -

Exercised the muscle of the mind.

- Please, don’t ask me for more!

- Daily empowering students who learn differently.

- Teacher, warrior, fighting for the future.

- We learned by doing, always curious.

- Untied shoelaces, missing front teeth – elementary!

- Learning as much as I teach.

- Active noisy classroom means brains working.

Since it’s summer, we throw the challenge out to you. Bonus points for those that reference with science, math and / or teaching indigenous students.

Send them to dawn@nativeaccess.com, and we’ll include our favourites in August 18 newsletter.

DreamCatching 2009
University of Manitoba
May 3-6, 2009

We are pleased to announce that the 6th edition of DreamCatching Hands-on Workshops in Math and Science for Teachers of Aboriginal Students, will be held in Winnipeg, MB next May.

The web site, http://www.dream-catching.com, will be updated shortly and registration will be available starting in August.

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Steve over at whatdoino grabbed a great photo

• Bugs, Boleta, Barbecue, and a Tacky Green Russula

of the ladybugs I mentioned earlier

• More bug projects

Along with the ladybug, he posted a photo of what most of us would call a dragonfly or maybe a darningneedle or damselfly.

It is a bluet, but not the flower.

I found this out because in July 2005 I photographed a midnight visitor in Bethel.

This stunner looks like it is made of turquoise and jet by a Pueblo artist.

Of course, I had to find out what kind of dragonfly it was or whether it was a darningneedle (and was there a difference between darning needles, damselflies, and dragonflies?). Turns out to be a bluet. I think it is a taiga bluet.

I had no idea that Alaska had that many related insects. Nor that our state insect isn’t the mosquito but the 4-spotted skimmer, a dragonfly.

• Dragonflies of Alaska by John Hudson and Robert H. Armstrong is the local reference, Todd Communications, 203 W. 15th Ave. Suite 102, Anchorage, AK 99510, for $12.95. ISBN:1-57833-302-4 available at TitleWave

• http://www.turtlepuddle.org/alaskan/dragonflies.html “Dragonflies of Alaska” is a website with great photos (not related to the book)

• Digital Dragonflies with photos by family. This site is related to the book, A Dazzle of Dragonflies which one really needs in a natural history library. They also explain how to get those dazzling photos (flatbed scanner).
  by Forrest L. Mitchell and James L. Lasswell
  # Hardcover: 224 pages
  # Publisher: Texas A&M University Press (April 30, 2005)
  # Language: English
  # ISBN-10: 1585444596
  # ISBN-13: 978-1585444595
  # Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 8.8 x 0.8 inches
  http://www.dragonflies.org/catalog.htm

• Field Key to Adult Alaska Dragonflies Dennis Paulson Slater Museum of Natural History University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA 98416 Revised Feb. 2004

• “Alaska’s Dragons” with a good photo of the 4-spotted http://www.wildlifenews.alaska.gov/

Lynn Zender posted a series of valuable resources on solid waste management and dumpsite health risk studies in rural Alaska as a comment here on the other site Biocultural Sciences. Because comments from there don’t get noted here, I’m making a post to bring these resources to your attention.

• Adverse birth outcomes associated with open dumpsites in Alaska Native Villages

Lynn mentions SWAN

• “Solid Waste Alaska Network, Solid Waste Management (SWM) for Alaska Native Villages.” http://www.ccthita-swan.org/main/index.cfm

I thought I had referred folks to SWAN which is a highly useful discussion site and resource. My apologies because it is very well done. The site is sponsored by CCTHITA (Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska)

[This is a housekeeping entry.]

I suspect many readers visit for specific posts and others are using feed readers for posts and comments. While the blog format is very flexible for information and discussion it’s technical restrictions are a little challenging for me to keep folks up to date on revisions and to highlight other posts of possible interest.

Index or Contents posts like this one [such as the alphabetical listing or the reverse chronological listing] will be cross-indexed on the Table of Contents page. Because it is a regular post, feed readers will be notified.

“Popular posts” is one such tool provided by WordPress.com. I doubt that it is very accurate for actual readers but the relative rankings provide an alternative way to find items of interest. I wish there was a way to get the full set of data they collect, especially for the referrers (see http://cerebraloddjobs.edublogs.org/2006/09/30/referrers-in-edublogs/), to see what it is that people are looking for. This would help to revise information or add new information [so would reader comments and queries]. Unfortunately,WP.com don’t have a consistent way to present this data to blog administrators (asking for daily referrers gives a very different set of information than getting the weekly or yearly referrers. Same data but the presentation to the human at this end is patchy.) Notice how the titles are truncated, for example.

The ranking for 2007 is given first and then for 2008 (up to July 12)

2007-02-06 to Today

Top Posts for 195 days ending 2008-07-13 (Summarized)

2007-12-31 to Today