Bridging science, art, and community in the new Arctic

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Acknowledgments

This symposium was funded by the National Science Foundation Navigating the New Arctic workshop grant #1744413; an American Geophysical Union Centennial grant; the University of Virginia Institute for the Humanities and Global Cultures; the University of Virginia Center for Global Inquiry and Innovation; and the University of Virginia Environmental Resilience Institute. We extend our gratitude to the Arctic Research Consortium of the United States (Helen Wiggins and Olivia Lee) and a team of students and staff (Jane Lee, Theodore Teichman, Chloé Nagraj, and Elizabeth Jackson) at the University of Virginia for their logistical planning and support for the event.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Notes

¹ Hinkel and Nelson, “Anthropogenic Heat Island at Barrow”; Forbes et al., “High Resilience in the Yamal-Nenets Social-Ecological System”; Raynolds et al., “Cumulative Geoecological Effects of 62 Years.”

² Lawrence, “Deciphering Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Contributions”; Eicken, Forbes, and Wiggins, “State of the Arctic Conference 2010”; Petrov et al., “Arctic Sustainability Research”; Triscott, “Curating Contemporary Art”; Cho and Jull, Mediating Environments.

³ Heyes, “Inuit and Scientific Ways of Knowing”; Raymond-Yakoubian et al., “Mapping and Indigenous Peoples in the Arctic.”

⁴ Miller et al. “Epistemological Pluralism.”

⁵ In addition to ‘Navigating the New Arctic,’ the National Science Foundation (NSF) identified ‘Growing Convergence Research’ as one of the NSF’s 10 Big Ideas. The Bridging symposium adopted and further explored the NSF’s description of convergence: ‘the merging of ideas, approaches and technologies from widely diverse fields of knowledge to stimulate innovation and discovery’ to address complex challenges of today. For more information on the convergent research practice, see https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/big_ideas.

⁶ Jewell, “This Arctic Life”; Fisher, Kelly, and Kling, Arctic Futures 2050 Conference Report.

⁷ Brewster, “Native Contributions to Arctic Science.”

⁸ Petrov et al., “Arctic Sustainability Research.”

⁹ Vachon et al., “Imaginer l’aménagement soutenable des villages inuits du Nunavik.”