[guest lecture]Niall McCann–world famous adventurer
Documenting Subsistence in Alaska: A Few Things Learned…
Jim Magdanz
Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Subsistence Division (retired)
UAF – Resilience and Adaptation Program, Graduate School, University of Alaska Fairbanks (Ph.D. student)
UW – Biocultural Anthropology (visiting student)
Friday March 14
3:30-5pm
Denny Hall 205
Jim Magdanz will present some results from 30-years of subsistence research in Alaska. Since 1980, state and federal laws have provided a priority for subsistence hunting and fishing over other consumptive uses such as commercial fishing. The state’s Division of Subsistence, directed primarily by anthropologists, became the primary source of information about Alaska’s subsistence economies. Jim was one of the Division’s earliest field researchers. He spent his 30-year career living and working in Nome, Kotzebue, and surrounding smaller communities. He will discuss the legal framework for Alaska’s subsistence priority, community population and harvest trends, their implications for sustainability, and social network analysis as a method to untangle the complex cooperative production systems in Native communities. Jim resigned from the Division of Subsistence in 2012 to pursue a Ph.D. in natural resources, and is currently a visiting graduate student in biocultural anthropology at UW.
About the speaker:
Jim is a Ph.D. student in natural resources and sustainability at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and a visiting graduate student in biocultural anthropology at the University of Washington Seattle, with an emphasis on network analysis.
Jim came to Alaska as a photojournalist, fascinated by a group of 5-to-10-year-old Iñupiaq children he met during their visit to an Iowa dairy farm. Compared with children he knew, the Iñupiat were self-confident, calm, mature, and cooperative, not competitive. They shed no tears, threw no tantrums, and played with great joy. “What kind of place raises kids like this?” he wondered. So he went to Alaska, and spent the next 30 years of his life living in and studying small Iñupiaq communities in Arctic Alaska.
In 1981, he joined the Division of Subsistence, a small social science research group embedded in the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. In his first project, a “simple” subsistence harvest estimation problem developed into a continuing interest in network analysis as a method to understand rural economies. Analyses showed that Iñupiat produced and distributed wild foods within multi-household, extended family structures very similar to those of their ancestors, despite profound social and economic changes over the last century. As his investments in network research grew, he realized he needed to improve his network analysis skills, so he resigned to return to graduate school full time.
Make sure to get your FREE TICKETS to go see Ken Balcomb III on May 2 as he presents his research and experiences with Salish Sea orcas. To get complimentary student tickets, email Susan Bullerdick at coseeolc@uw.edu, or if not a student, purchase tickets at http://www.seattleaquarium.org/sound-conversations
Plastics in the Ocean – with Giora Proskurowski (UW Oceanography)
Plastics in the Ocean – with Giora Proskurowski (UW Oceanography)
On April 24, discover the impact of plastics on the world’s oceans with Giora Proskurowski from UW Oceanography.
While working on a research sailboat in the Pacific Ocean, UW Oceanography Research Scientist Giora Proskurowski observed water littered with confetti-size pieces of plastic debris, then the wind picked up and the particles disappeared. After taking subsurface samples at a depths of up to 16 feet, he discovered that wind was pushing the lightweight plastic below the surface. That meant that decades of research into how much plastic litters the ocean, conducted by skimming the surface, may in some cases vastly underestimate the true amount of plastic debris in the oceans.
Free for UW Students!!
Preparing for the Age of the Arctic, TODAY
The Canadian Studies Center, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, presents:
Preparing for the Age of the Arctic – Canada, the United States & the Arctic Council, by Terry Fenge, Consultant, Ottawa
Tuesday, 13 November 2012
2-3:30 p.m., University (Faculty) Club, Southeast Dining Room
Canada assumes the chair of the eight-nation Arctic Council in 2013 for a two-year term to be followed by the United States in 2015. What might they do to deepen circumpolar co-operation in a world hungry for the Arctic’s energy and minerals? Should they sponsor a legally binding treaty to provide for “orderly” development in the region? What role should the region’s indigenous peoples – Inuit, Athabaskans, Saami and others play as we prepare for the Age of the Arctic? (Leona Aglukkaq, Canada’s Health Minister, will chair the Arctic Council marking the first time an Inuk has served in this position.)
Co-sponsored with the Future of Ice: Arctic and Antarctic Policy and Science Initiative
Free Lecture
From World History to World Art:
Reflections on New Geographies
of Feminist Art in Asia
Thursday, November 15, 6:00 pm
UW Kane Hall, Room 220
Thursday, October 11th 2012
5:00-6:00PM
HUB Room 145
The five transformational commitments required to rescue the planet, your organization and your life. An interactive presentation and book signing by Bob Doppelt that details highlights from his book From Me to We. This lecture is open to the public!
Click here for the full flyer and click below to read more about Bob Doppelt
Bob Doppelt is Executive Director of The Resource Innovation Group (TRIG), a non-partisan social science-based sustainability and global climate change education, research and technical assistance organization affiliated with the Center for Sustainable Communities at Willamette University, where he is also a Senior Fellow. In addition, Bob is an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Planning, Public Policy and Management at the University of Oregon where he teaches systems thinking and global warming policy. He has also taught at the Presidio Graduate School in San Francisco and the Bainbridge Graduate Institute on sustainable management.
Bob’s expertise is in individual, organizational, and social systems dynamics and change. His advance training is in counseling psychology and environmental land management. For the past 25 years he has also practiced socially engaged Buddhism. Throughout his career he has strived to integrate these three fields of inquiry. Bob believes that environmental problems such as climate change as well as many of today’s pressing social and economic problems result from outdated and flawed assumptions and beliefs about the way the world works and what it means to live a decent and honorable life. In fact, climate disruption is not, at its core, an environmental, energy, or technological problem. Bob considers it the greatest crises of thought and imagination in human history. Only after vast numbers of people alter the way they perceive and respond to the world around them will solutions to today’s major challenges be found.
Lecture and Seminar with Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Dan Ashe
Come participate in the highly anticipated upcoming events featuring Dan Ashe, the Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and University of Washington alum! This is an outstanding opportunity to hear from someone at the top levels of government about federal management of our wildlife resources and how USFWS is trying to balance human, wildlife, and ecological needs into the future.
Event: The 2012 Annual Dean’s Lecture, “Wildlife in the Modern American Landscape"
Where: UW Seattle campus, Kane Hall Room 120
Date: Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Time: 7:00PM – 8:30PM
Check out more about the lecture and RSVP on the website
There will also be a student seminar/Q&A where students will have the change to interact with Dan Ashe on a more personal level. He will be open to responding to questions, talking about how to rose to the top of a federal agency, what it takes to do what he does, and more!
Event: Student Seminar/Q&A
Where: Ocean Sciences Building (OCN) Room 425
Date: Thursday, October 4, 2012
Time: 10:00AM – 11:15AM
Hosted by the World Affairs Council
WHEN: Thursday, June 14 @ 6:00 PM
Dambisa Moyo, International Economist and Bestselling Author will share her global perspectives on China’s race to purchase commodities around the world and its impact on geopolitical affairs. The lecture will be preceded by a reception and followed by a Q&A session and book signing.