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

    Metadata Updated: January 30, 2026

    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.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date April 11, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date January 30, 2026

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NASA Data.json

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date April 11, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date January 30, 2026
    Publisher ORNL_DAAC
    Maintainer
    Identifier 10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1894
    Data Last Modified 2026-01-27
    Category Earth Science
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id 7d971440-ab23-43c7-bb90-d958c67aa226
    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=YKDelta_EnvChange_InfoExchange_1894&ac=true
    Old Spatial {"WestBoundingCoordinate":-166.553,"NorthBoundingCoordinate":63.4333,"EastBoundingCoordinate":-159.478,"SouthBoundingCoordinate":59.5816},"CARTESIAN"
    Program Code 026:000
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 554bb2e08bef49fe3e33cde1a248e3bd0144e8682e5cedfc2ca25469aecd88f2
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 2018-11-14/2018-11-14

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