Creating an interview guide to produce usable and culturally relevant research in Kullorsuaq, Greenland

摘要: Greenland is facing impacts from anthropogenic climate changes on multiple fronts. Warming ocean and air temperatures have decreased the integrity of sea ice, which is vital infrastructure for travel and hunting for Kalaallit during winter months; habitats of culturally and economically important animals are changing; and natural hazards like landslides are increasingly common. However, due to sparse data, the scientific record in Greenland and the Arctic generally is not robust enough to predict how these changes will affect communities on a local scale or affect future decision-making. Greenland Rising is an NSF NNA collaborative project between Columbia University and Greenland Institute of Natural Resources that seeks to combine western science and local expertise to prepare for changing sea levels in four Greenlandic communities: Nuuk, Aasiaat, Kullorsuaq, and Tasiilaq. While very little local quantitative …