Alaska's Changing YK Delta: Knowledge Exchange between Elders and Geoscientists, 2018

This dataset provides a booklet documenting the discussions and outcomes from a knowledge-exchange meeting with Yup'ik elders from the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta (YKD), western Alaska, community members, and natural scientist to discuss landscape and weather changes that have been observed in their homelands. The meeting was held during November 14-16, 2018. Yup'ik participants represented several YKD villages that occupy very different biophysical environments, and they have lifelong perspectives of environmental conditions and change that predate the era of Earth-observing satellites by many decades. Nearly 16 hours of discussion and testimonials from YKD elders were recorded during the meeting. The booklet is structured according to the environmental change processes that were discussed (e.g., coastal flooding, permafrost thaw, shrub expansion, climate change) and includes narrative summaries, quotations from participants, graphical illustrations, and examples of the field- and remote-sensing-based scientific findings, and map products developed as part of the larger ABoVE project.

本数据集收录了一份手册，详细记录了与育匹克（Yup'ik）长者、尤克逊-库斯科普姆三角洲（YKD）社区成员以及自然科学家之间就其乡土家园所观察到的景观与气候变化所进行的知识交流会议的讨论成果。该会议于2018年11月14日至16日举行。与会育匹克代表来自多个位于不同生物物理环境中的YKD村落，他们拥有跨越数十年、早于地球观测卫星时代的对环境状况及变化的终身视角。会议期间，共录制了近16小时的讨论与证词。手册结构依据讨论的环境变化过程（例如，海岸线洪水、永冻土融化、灌木扩张、气候变化）编排，并包含叙事摘要、与会者的引述、图表说明、基于现场调查和遥感技术的科学发现示例，以及作为更大范围ABoVE项目一部分开发的地图产品。