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

    Metadata Updated: December 7, 2023

    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.

    Access & Use Information

    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 December 1, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date December 7, 2023

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NASA Data.json

    Other Data Resources

    Graphic Preview

    Aerial view of the Yukon Delta landscape near the village of Emmonak, August 2017. Source: Fienup-Riordan et al. (2021)

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date December 1, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date December 7, 2023
    Publisher ORNL_DAAC
    Maintainer
    Identifier C2170972782-ORNL_CLOUD
    Data First Published 2021-11-18
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2023-06-12
    Category ABoVE, geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://data.nasa.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Citation Fienup-riordan, A., G.V. Frost, R. Nayamin-kelly, U.S. Bhatt, A.S. Hendricks, M. John, and P. Odom. 2021. Alaskas Changing YK Delta: Knowledge Exchange between Elders and Geoscientists, 2018. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1894
    Graphic Preview Description Aerial view of the Yukon Delta landscape near the village of Emmonak, August 2017. Source: Fienup-Riordan et al. (2021)
    Graphic Preview File https://daac.ornl.gov/ABOVE/guides/YKDelta_EnvChange_InfoExchange_Fig1.png
    Harvest Object Id c5c8d3ff-6419-41ac-9fc2-42d8febca835
    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1894
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -166.55 59.58 -159.48 63.43
    Program Code 026:001
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 52bd823e57d452071cdbc08a7822faea127e6f0f33d75f0c0fba24c29e1967fb
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 2018-11-14T00:00:00Z/2018-11-16T23:59:59Z

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