When author/photographer and Environmental Steward, Mary Marshall, met her husband and partner, Native American Jon Waterhouse, she had no idea what the future might hold, and her background in the cosmetic dental field did little to prepare her for what awaited. She soon found herself alongside Jon paddling a canoe in the Arctic, forging rushing rivers to visit members of remote tribes within the Amazonian Basin, and jumping from moving ship to moving ship on the massive Lena River to meet reindeer herders in the farthest reaches of Siberia. Numerous projects to help address climate shifts and their effects on various small populations have taken Marshall down many rivers, logging thousands of miles in canoes filled with high-tech recording equipment as well as water-quality monitoring devices.She is passionate about her work, photographing and interviewing the people with whom she connects on these journeys, and providing them the opportunity to share their own stories, in their own words.

Herbert Maschner is Executive Director of Center for Virtualization and Applied Spatial Technologies (CVAST) at the University of South Florida. He also holds tenured Professorships in the USF Department of Anthropology and the School of Geosciences. He serves as the Academic Editor of PeerJ, and on the Editorial Boards of the Journals Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage and Science and Technology of Archaeological Research (STAR); He is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and serves as the Society for American Archaeology representative to the AAAS. The recipient of over 13 million in grants, including PI on ˜$5.9 million from the National Science Foundation, he has published 2 monographs, 9 edited books, 108 articles, chapters, and reviews, and presented over 200 conference papers with abstracts.

Nancy Maynard is a NASA Emeritus Scientist and a Visiting Scientist at the U. Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science (RSMAS) and the Cooperative Institute for Marine & Atmospheric Studies (CIMAS) with an interest in the use of remote sensing to observe changes (environment, climate, land use/cover) in the Arctic and their impacts on indigenous populations in the region. Originally trained as a marine biologist, she has had a broad range of scientific experience ranging from oceanographic research at sea to science policy in the White House to studying health impacts of climate change to application of satellites to societal issues. She is a collaborator on a NASA grant to develop AMSR-E data for quantifying winter climate changes such as “rain-on-snow”, with NASA and indigenous reindeer herder partners for practical dissemination to herders across the Arctic. In addition, for a number of years, Dr. Maynard served as the Project Manager for the NASA Tribal College & University Project to increase the number of American Indian/Alaska Native undergraduates in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) related disciplines. She was a Lead Author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group 2 Assessment Report, Polar Regions Chapter, and a Convening Lead Author of the US National Climate Assessment (NCA) Report for the Indigenous Peoples, Lands & Resources chapter – both published in 2014. She is currently a Lead Author on the international report on Adaptation Actions for a Changing Arctic (AACA) in the Barents Sea Region.

Nicole Misarti is an Assistant Professor Research at the Water and Environmental Research Institute at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Previously she was an Institutional Research Associate Postdoc at College of Oceanographic and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University and a National Science Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow housed at Center for Archaeology, Materials, and Applied Spectroscopy (CAMAS), Idaho State University for two years. She has conducted archaeological, ecological, geological and limnological workin coastal and interior Alaska for 16 years. She is a specialist in marine ecosystems, stable isotopes and elemental analysis. Misarti is currently involved in coastal and marine research in southern Alaska and southern most Patagonia (Chile and Argentina). Her web page, with current project information can be found at: http://ine.uaf.edu/werc/people/faculty/nicole-misarti/

Robert Orttung is Research Director at the George Washington University Sustainability Collaborative and Associate Research Professor of International Affairs at GW’s Elliott School of International Affairs. Orttung is the lead PI on two National Science Foundation grants focused on promoting urban sustainability in the Arctic. He is the editor of the forthcoming Sustaining Russia’s Arctic Cities (NY: Berghahn, 2016). Among his previous publications are several books and articles examining the interconnection between energy and international relations, including serving as editor with Andreas Wenger and Jeronim Perovic of Energy and the Transformation of International Relations: Toward a New Producer–Consumer Framework (Oxford University Press, 2009) and Russian Energy Power and Foreign Relations: Implications for conflict and cooperation, (Routledge, 2009). He is the president of the Westover Village Civic Association and a member of the board of Field to Table, which runs two farmers markets in Arlington, Virginia. Dr. Orttung received a B.A. in Russian Studies from Stanford University and both a M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Timothy (Tim) J. Pasch (Ph.D., Communication, University of Washington 2008) is Associate Professor and Chair of Communication at the University of North Dakota (Grand Forks). US/Canadian citizen fluent in French and Japanese, with Inuktitut language ability acquired through the US. Dept. of Education FLAS initiative. He lived with an Inuit family in Inukjuaq, Nunavik (Arctic Québec) for his dissertation research and has more recently worked in Arviat, in the Kivalliq Region of Nunavut, where he has assisted with various digital research workshops in the Inuit community. His research interests focus on crowdsourcing and digitally disseminating traditional knowledge related to Identity and Communication in the Circumpolar Arctic. Pasch seeks to build NSF collaborations for Arctic social network analysis and mobile application development focused on human-dimension social scientific cyberinfrastructure. His work also focuses upon the social aspects of geographic information systems including the uneven development of geographic information networks within institutions and their connections/disconnections within indigenous communities around the world.

Andrey Petrov (Ph.D. University of Toronto) is Associate Professor of Geography and ARCTICenter Director at the University of Northern Iowa. Dr. Petrov is an economic and social geographer who specializes in Arctic economy, regional development, demography and post-Soviet society. His current research is focused on regions of the Russian and Canadian North and concerns regional development, spatial organization, and restructuring of peripheral economies. Dr. Petrov leads the NSF Research Coordination Networks in Arctic Sustainability (Arctic-FROST) and coastal social-ecological systems (Arctic-COAST). He is also serves as the Chair of the AAG Polar Geography Specialty Group, IASSA Councilor and U.S. Representative for the IASC Social and Human Sciences Working Group. He is a co-editor of Arctic Social Indicators II.

Marshall Scott Poole (Ph.D, University of Wisconsin-Madison) is David L. Swanson Professor of Communication at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Visiting Professor of Organization and Communication Studies at Vrije University, Amsterdam, Netherlands. His research interests include group and organizational communication, information systems, collaboration technologies, organizational innovation, and theory construction. Scott is the author of over 150 articles, book chapters, and proceedings publications and has authored or co-edited 11 books. He has been named a Fellow of the International Communication Association, a Distinguished Scholar of the National Communication Association, and is recipient of the Steven A. Chaffee Career Productivity Award from the International Communication and the Joseph E. McGrath Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Study of Groups from the Interdisciplinary Network for Group Research (INGRoup).

Jim Powell is an Assistant Professor at the University of Alaska Southeast (UAS), where he teaches natural resource policy, sustainability, and local governance. His research includes community and institutional response and adaptation to climate change in Alaska, Greenland, and the Yukon Territories. Alaska Native observations and their adaptation to environmental change are central to Jim’s work. Before his appointment at UAS, Jim spent 28 years in environmental management, focusing on water quality and wetland issues. Among his other appointments, Jim was the Special Assistant to the Commissioner of the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) and was also an Assistant Director for the Division of Environmental Quality at DEC. His public service includes nine years on the City and Borough of Juneau Assembly with three years as Deputy Mayor. Today, Jim balances his teaching with serving on several state and local nonprofit boards; he also lectures and consults on sustainability planning. Jim has a PhD in Natural Resources and Sustainability Science from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, a Master in Public Administration from UAS, and a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Studies from Eisenhower College at Rochester Institute of Technology. He is a member of the Ecological Society of America’s Rapid Response Team, and is on the Board of Directors for the Arctic Winter Games Team Alaska. Jim lives in Juneau, Alaska with his wife, Beth Kerttula and their very spoiled dog, Cody.

Peter Pulsifer is a research scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center, University of Colorado, where he leads the the Exchange for Local Observations and Knowledge of the Arctic (ELOKA) and other projects. His research addresses questions around computer-based information representation with a particular focus on interoperability and sharing across knowledge domains. Form more than fifteen years, Dr. Pulsifer has focused on theory and practice in the context of polar information management. More recently, he has worked with members of arctic communities to facilitate the sharing of local observations and Indigenous knowledge. In his role as Chair of the international Arctic Data Committee, and now the co-chair of the Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee in the U.S., Peter is actively participating in the coordination of polar data resources. Most recently, as part of an ad-hoc group he has been working with members of the Arctic Executive Steering Committee to establish and international working group on Community Based Observing in the Arctic and beyond.

Liesel Ashley Ritchie is associate director at the University of Colorado’s Natural Hazards Center and a research professor with joint appointments in CU Boulder’s Institute of Behavioral Science and Environmental Studies Program. During her career, Dr. Ritchie has studied a range of disaster events, including the Exxon Valdez and BP Deepwater Horizon oil spills; the Tennessee Valley Authority coal ash release; Hurricane Katrina; and earthquakes in Haiti and New Zealand. In the past two decades, she has served as either principal investigator or senior researcher on more than 80 projects with funding from a variety of entities including NASA, NSF, USGS, and NOAA. Since 2000, her focus has been on the social impacts of disasters with an emphasis on technological disasters, social capital, and renewable resource communities and she has published widely on these topics. Dr. Ritchie’s most recent research includes two NSF projects: one on how settlement and litigation processes in the aftermath of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill are influencing social and psychological recovery in coastal communities along the northern Gulf of Mexico and another in Colorado and Oklahoma studying risk perceptions associated with earthquakes induced by deep wastewater injection. Dr. Ritchie is a National Institute of Standards and Technology Disaster Resilience Fellow and a member of the National Academy of Sciences Gulf Research Program Advisory Board.

Peter Schweitzer is Professor at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna and Professor Emeritus at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. His theoretical interests range from kinship and identity politics to human-environmental interactions, including the community effects of global climate change, and his regional focus areas include the circumpolar North and the former Soviet Union. Schweitzer is past president of the International Arctic Social Sciences Association, and past chair of the Social and Human Sciences Working Group of the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC). He is the editor of Dividends of Kinship (Routledge 2000), co-editor of Hunters and Gatherers in the Modern World (Berghahn 2000), Arctic Social Indicators (Nordic Council of Ministers 2010), and Arctic Social Indicators II: Implementation (Nordic Council of Ministers 2014), and co-author of Russian Old-Settlers of Siberia (Novoe izdatel'stvo 2004; in Russian).

As a research scientist at NSIDC, Strawhacker is currently building a data management program for the Arctic Social Sciences through the leadership of multiple projects that enable scientific research and outreach through the development of cyberinfrastructure. Throughout the course of her career, Dr. Strawhacker has participated in, and now, leads large, international, collaborative teams of researchers and data managers (e.g., the North Atlantic Biocultural Organization) to build capacity for cyberinfrastructure for Arctic social scientists. These activities complement her ongoing scientific research, which focuses on the archaeology of long-term, multi-scale strategies that people in the past implemented in response to climate change.

Victoria A. Walsey is a member of the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation and descendent of the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs. She has attended Northwest Indian College and earned an Associate of Sciences Degree. She then transferred to The University of Kansas and attained her Bachelors in Environmental Sciences and a Masters in Indigenous Studies. Her Masters work focuses on Resources Management issues of Indigenous peoples in the United States, New Zealand, and Canada. She is currently a PhD candidate in the department of Geography at the University of Kansas. She is also a National Science Foundation Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) Fellow in the Climate Change, Humans, and Nature in the Global Environment (C-CHANGE) program. Her current research is on bridging communication gaps between resource management systems and fishers along the Yukon River to aid cultural and traditional knowledge of fishers.

Native American and Environmental Steward, Jon Waterhouse, created a truly innovative approach to developing the nexus between Western Science and Indigenous Knowledge when he attached and deployed sophisticated water-quality testing sensors from his canoe and hit the 2400-mile Yukon River. This river-monitoring first has now been shared with numerous Indigenous cultures and offers limitless opportunities to understand rivers, estuaries and watersheds. In addition to the collection of river health data, the process is providing the tools and equipment needed for those who have called remote rivers home since time immemorial to document and share their own oral histories and Indigenous science. Through decades of working with Indigenous communities from Siberia to the Amazon,the guidance of these people has enabled him to see the countless benefits of engaging place-based cultures in all efforts of environmental stewardship and study. He encourages collaborations between the contemporary and the Indigenous whenever possible. In 1995, Waterhouse retired from a twenty-year career with the U.S. NAVY as a decorated chief petty officer educated in a variety of subjects, including anti-submarine warfare, air warfare, oceanography, and electronics, to name but a few. Waterhouse moved to Alaska that same year in search of new adventures, a choice which would eventually lead to a serendipitous encounter with his future wife and partner in this global effort, Mary Marshall. In 2010 Waterhouse was appointed by President Barack Obama to the 15-member Joint Public Advisory Committee, among representatives from Canada, Mexico, and the United States chosen to advise the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC). In 2014, Waterhouse was invited to join the Oregon Health & Science University as an Indigenous Scholar, a teaching and research position which allows him to fully pursue his efforts in connecting global cultures while combining Western Science with the Indigenous sciences of those with whom he engages.

Based at the Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum, Kansas University, I have over 20 years archaeological experience working in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska. With NSF funding I have worked in the western (Buldir, Attu, Shemya), central (Adak), and the eastern (Islands of the Four Mts) Aleutians. My chief interests include reciprocal impacts between humans and their environment and climate change. My colleagues and I have integrated DNA, stable isotopes, geology, climate studies, paleoecology, lithic and use wear analysis, tephrochronology, and sourcing raw materials.

I am an environmental anthropologist and interdisciplinary social scientist who partners with communities to examine how local, mostly rural, livelihoods and well-being can be sustained and to identify the pathways that shape just futures. Using a feminist political ecology framework, I map out spatial inequalities and injustices experienced by resource-dependent communities and highlight local creativity in the context of acute change. In addition to environmental anthropology, I find kinship with decolonizing approaches to research inquiry alongside insights from cultural geography, Indigenous studies, and Latin American studies. I have partnered with the Kayapó, an indigenous community in Brazil, for over ten years and am currently working on projects that take place in Alaska (North Slope) and Brazil (Pará) with collaborative research teams and project partners. These project focus on environmental justice, resilience, strength, and healing. I joined the Purdue Faculty in 2009 and am an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology.

Marybeth Stalp (Ph.D., University of Georgia) is Professor of Sociology at the University of Northern Iowa. He research focuses on the intersection of gender and culture in contemporary society. Current research includes anexamination of contemporarywomen's quilting activities in U.S., Ireland and potentially Iceland as a gendered form of cultural production, with specificattention to family tensions emerging as midlife women develop leisure interests. She also studies leisure aspects of women, aging, andthe social benefits of belonging to women’s organizations.