Vera Kuklina, a research professor in Columbian College’s Department of Geography, will lead a team of researchers in a National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded investigation of the shifting Arctic landscape’s impact on Indigenous peoples and local communities. The GW team will work with researchers from Alaska Pacific and Arizona State Universities and the Universities of Alaska Fairbanks, New Hampshire and Northern Iowa. The scientists will also partner with Alaskan and Russian residents directly dealing with the consequences of climate change.
Arctic Researchers Partner with Indigenous Communities
Geography’s Vera Kuklina will lead a $3 million National Science Foundation exploration of how the changing climate is altering the lives of Arctic communities—and impacting the world.
October 14, 2021
A road in the Irkutsk region of Russia is built on thawing permafrost with logs used to stabilize frozen ground. The horizon and sun are obscured by smoke from wildfires