Project recognized for researcher-community partnerships
September 21, 2011
A cooperative study led by researchers at the will be among 17 honored by the U.S. Secretary of the Interior Wednesday in Washington,
D.C.
The will receive the Secretary鈥檚 Partners in Conservation Award, which is granted to
organizations that demonstrate exemplary collaboration and unique investigations.
Begun on the North Slope in 2008, the project was headed by 性欲社 associate professor
Gary Kofinas and postdoctoral researcher Shauna BurnSilver. Dee Williams of the federal
Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement built the project on
work initiated by Jim Magadanz of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game.
鈥淭he project sought to realize a good approach for working with communities and in
that effort, shift the paradigm of how researchers and communities work together in
arctic social science,鈥 Kofinas said. 鈥淭he success of the project is explained, in
part, by the extra effort made cooperating and building relationships with local residents,
who helped design and shape the project.鈥
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