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.

本数据集提供了一本手册，详细记录了与育空-库斯库克维姆三角洲（YKD）的尤皮克长者、社区成员以及自然科学家就其故土所观察到的景观和气候变化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。参与尤皮克的代表来自多个占据不同生物物理环境的YKD村庄，他们拥有数十年甚至更早于地球观测卫星时代的终身环境状况与变化视角。会议期间记录了近16小时的讨论和证词。手册结构依照所讨论的环境变化过程（例如，海岸洪水、永久冻土融化、灌木扩张、气候变化）进行编排，并包含叙事摘要、参与者引述、图表插图以及基于现场和遥感科学发现及作为更大ABoVE项目一部分开发的地图产品示例。