Interactions between wildfire and ecosystem services (2018-2023)
Exploring the interactions of wildfire and ecosystem services in Interior Alaska
Objective: 1) To catalog the availability of ecosystem services (moose, fish, small game) impacted by wildfire in Interior Alaska 2) To assess the vulnerability of local resources based on relationships between wildfire fuels, severity, habitat quality, and the availability of ecosystem services.
Collaborators: Brinkman TJ (PI), Hollingsworth T (Co-PI, USFS),
Brown C (Co-PI, ADF&G)
Funding: USDA Forest Service
Wildfire and subsistence opportunities (2016-2018)
Effects of Wildfire on Subsistence Opportunities in Alaska
Objective: To map the overlap of wildfire activity in traditional harvest areas around rural Interior Alaska communities, and pilot a community-based monitoring project to document wildfire-related environmental change affecting subsistence practices.
Collaborators: Brinkman TJ (PI), Hollingsworth T (Co-PI, USFS),
Brown C (Co-PI, ADF&G)
Funding: USDA Forest Service, $50,000
Health of traditional harvest systems in Alaska (2015-2019)
CNH-L Adaptive Coupling of Human Environment Linkages in Response to Globally Driven Changes in Subsistence in Rural Alaska
Objective: To advance knowledge on the interacting effects of social, environmental, and economic factors on the health of traditional harvest practices in Interior Alaska. We partnered with 6 rural communities to design locally-relevant research that advanced knowledge and strengthened traditional harvest systems.
Collaborators: Brinkman TJ (PI), Chapin FS III (Co-PI), Rupp TS (Co-PI), Little J (Co-PI)
Funding: NSF, $1,525,275
Relationship between climate change and access to subsistence resources (2015-2018)
Biophysical Characteristics and Mechanisms of Environmental Disturbances Influencing Human Access to Ecosystem Services in Boreal Alaska
Objective: To partner with rural communities to document the location of environmental conditions that are affecting travel and access to local subsistence resources, and then use statistical modeling and remote sensing to assess the extent and trends in environmental conditions that rural residents are vulnerable to.
Collaborators: Brinkman TJ (PI), Verbyla D (Co-PI, UAF), Hollingsworth T (Co-PI, USFS), Brown C (Co-PI, ADF&G)
Funding: NASA ABoVE, $794,010
Nuiqsit community-based monitoring project (2014-2016)
Objective: To design a community-based monitoring project in the North Slope of Alaska community of Nuiqsut to identify social and ecological changes important to the community.
Collaborators: Brinkman TJ (PI)
Student: Stinchomb T (Co-PI)
Funding: NSF, Alaska NSF EPSCoRE
