UArctic TN on Local-scale Planning, Climate Change and Resilience

Activities (November 2019 - February 2021)

Leadership Lead: Dr. S Jeff Birchall (, Canada) Vice-Lead: Dr. Martin Lehmann (Aalborg University, Denmark)

Membership Total 40 individuals, from: • 17 UArctic Organizations • 12 non-UArctic Organizations • 10 countries

New Members (added since initial proposal): • Adelheid Herrmann (University of Alaska Fairbanks, United States) • Brian Horton ( University, Canada) • Katrine Frese (Yukon University, Canada) • Nicole Bonnett (University of Alberta, Canada) • Nicklas Baran (University of Alberta, Canada) • Maeva Gauthier (, Canada) • Jaro Malanowski (Avatar Media, Canada) • Coral Voss, Executive Director (Yukon Conservation Society, Canada)

Major Activities Organized through the TN 1. Graduate Seminar Series - Climate Change Impacts and Responses in the Arctic (January 29, 2021, virtual)

Co-Chair + Organizer: Dr. S Jeff Birchall (University of Alberta, Canada) Co-Chair: Dr. Martin Lehmann (Aalborg University, Denmark)

Opening/ Closing Remarks: • Dr. S Jeff Birchall (University of Alberta) • Dr. Martin Lehmann (Aalborg University, Denmark)

Panel Presenters: • Nicole Bonnett (PhD Candidate, University of Alberta) - Coastal communities in the Circumpolar North and the need for sustainable climate adaptation approaches • Seghan MacDonald (MSc Student, University of Alberta) - Climate change resilience in the Canadian Arctic: The need for collaboration in the face of a changing landscape • Marie Frenkel (MSc Student, Aalborg University) – Coastal communities, innovation and climate resilience: A case study in the Westfjords, Iceland • Mikkel Juul-Andersen (MSc Student, Aalborg University) – Sustainable tourism development in Greenland: Thesis idea derived from observations and practical experiences with working as a tourist guide in Ilulissat

Moderator (questions and discussion): Sarah Kehler (MSc Candidate, University of Alberta)

Breakout Session (for presenters)

Attendance: 23

2. Seminar - Local-scale Climate Resilience (March, 17, 2020, virtual)

Co-Chair + Organizer: Dr. S Jeff Birchall (University of Alberta, Canada) Co-Chair: Daniel Morin (GAPSS President, University of Alberta, Canada)

SJ Birchall (Mar. 1, 2021) 1 of 7 Welcome/ Closing Remarks: • Dr. S Jeff Birchall (University of Alberta) • Dr. Lars Kullerud (UArctic President) • Dr. Anita Dey-Nuttall (UAlberta North Associate Director) • Daniel Morin (Geography and Planning Students Society President)

Keynote Address: Dr. Mark Nuttall (University of Alberta, Canada)

Panel Presenters: • Rob Shields (Professor & Henry Marshall Tory Chair Human Geography/Sociology, University of Alberta) - Local 'environmental intelligence’ for making new settlements in a changed environment • Kristof van Assche (Professor, School of Urban and , University of Alberta) - Knowledge integration and policy integration in long term resilience strategy: testing the limits and a warning for recurring modernism • Bob Summers (Academic Director, Sustainability Council, University of Alberta) - How the social sciences can contribute to building societal resilience • Danielle Koleyak (Environmental Projects Manager, of ) - Climate resilient Edmonton: ASAP

Discussant: Nicole Bonnett (PhD Candidate, University of Alberta)

Breakout Session Chairs: • Sarah Kehler (MSc Candidate, University of Alberta) • Seghan MacDonald (MSc Candidate, University of Alberta) • Jake Muffly (MSc Candidate, University of Alberta) • Tara Slater (MSc Candidate, University of Alberta) • Spencer Aiken (MSc Candidate, University of Alberta)

NOTE: 39 in virtual attendance

Planned Activities 1. Graduate Seminar Series - Climate Change Impacts and Responses in the Arctic (March 29, 2021, virtual)

Co-Chair + Organizer: Dr. S Jeff Birchall (University of Alberta, Canada) Co-Chair: Dr. Tristan Pearce (University of Northern , Canada)

Opening/ Closing Remarks: • Dr. S Jeff Birchall (University of Alberta, Canada) • Dr. Tristan Pearce (University of Northern British Columbia, Canada)

Panel Presenters: • Angus Naylor (University of Northern British Columbia, Canada) – Real-time monitoring of risks affecting Inuit subsistence in the Arctic • Umidakhon Gapurova (Northern (Arctic) Federal University, Russia) - Climate change in the European North: causes and consequences • Svetlana Kuznetcova (Northern (Arctic) Federal University, Russia) – Environmental change and resilience panning in the Russian Arctic • Alexandre Chiasson (University of Alberta, Canada) and Sarah Gauthier (Université Laval, Canada) - Facing the challenge of permafrost thaw in Nunavik communities: High resolution permafrost and geotechnical conditions mapping to support land-use planning

Moderator (questions and discussion): Anna Cherkasova (Northern (Arctic) Federal University, Russia)

Breakout Session (for presenters)

2. Graduate Seminar Series - Climate Change Impacts and Responses in the Arctic (April 26, 2021, virtual)

Co-Chair + Organizer: Dr. S Jeff Birchall (University of Alberta, Canada)

SJ Birchall (Mar. 1, 2021) 2 of 7 Co-Chair: TBD

Opening/ Closing Remarks: • Dr. S Jeff Birchall (University of Alberta, Canada) • TBD

Panel Presenters (4):

• Jessica Smart (University of Northern British Columbia, Canada) - Climate change impacts on Arctic char and the implications for Inuit subsistence in Ulukhaktok, Northwest Territories • Tara Slater (University of Alberta, Canada) - Climate change complacency: Institutional barriers to local adaptation in northern communities • Adelheid Herrmann (University of Alaska Fairbanks, United States) • TBD - (University of Turku, Finland)

Moderator (questions and discussion): TBD - (Agricultural University of Iceland, Iceland)

Breakout Session (for presenters)

3. Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) - Arctic Development (Resilience and Community Planning) (DUE for release via Coursera April 2021)

Collaborators: • Dr. S. Jeff Birchall and Nicole Bonnett (University of Alberta, Canada) • Tromso University (Norway)

4. UArctic Congress Seminar/ Panel - Local environmental change and planning for resilience across the Arctic (May 15-18, 2021)

Co-Chair + Organizer: Dr. S. Jeff Birchall (University of Alberta, Canada) Co-Chair: Dr. Sigridur Kristjansdottir (Agricultural University of Iceland, Iceland)

Opening/ Closing Remarks: • Jeff Birchall (University of Alberta, Canada) • Sigridur Kristjansdottir (Agricultural University of Iceland, Iceland)

Panelists/ Presenters: • Karin Buhmann (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark) • Tristan Pearce (University of Northern British Columbia, Canada) • Svetlana Kuznetsova (Northern (Arctic) Federal University, Russia) • Soffía Björk Guðmundsdóttir (Protection of the Arctic Marine Environment Working Group of the Arctic Council, Iceland)

5. Graduate Seminar Series - Climate Change Impacts and Responses in the Arctic (June 18, 2021, virtual)

Co-Chair + Organizer: Dr. S Jeff Birchall (University of Alberta, Canada) Co-Chair: Dr. Katrine Frese (Yukon University, Canada)

Opening/ Closing Remarks: • Dr. S Jeff Birchall (University of Alberta, Canada) • Dr. Katrine Frese (Yukon University, Canada)

Panel Presenters (4): TBD

SJ Birchall (Mar. 1, 2021) 3 of 7 Moderator (questions and discussion): TBD

Breakout Session (for presenters)

6. Workshop (academic and practice) - Planning and Resilience: Local Impacts and Local Solutions (February, 2022, likely virtual)

Co-Chair + Organizer: Dr. S Jeff Birchall (University of Alberta, Canada) Co-Chair: Brian Horton (Yukon University, Canada) Co-Chair (in discussions): Karin Buhmann (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark)

Join event between two Thematic Networks: • Local-scale Planning, Climate Change and Resilience • Arctic Sustainable Resources and Social Responsibility

7. Curriculum Development - (on-going)

Working to scope opportunities to develop local-scale, solutions-orientated programming around climate change impacts and adaptation in the Arctic (primarily target to Alaska).

Collaborators: • Dr. Adelheid Herrmann (University of Alaska Fairbanks, United States) • Dr. S Jeff Birchall (University of Alberta, Canada)

8. Edmonton Northern Partnership Connection - (on-going)

Continued discussions with the partners about having an aspect of our UArctic Thematic Network tied to an Edmonton Northern Partnership activity.

Lead: • Dr. Anita Dey Nuttall (University of Alberta, Canada)

Key Meetings Annual Partners Meetings: • October 26, 2020 (virtual); Chair: Dr. S Jeff Birchall (University of Alberta, Canada); Attendance: 14 • November 4 + 12, 2019 (virtual); Chair: Dr. S Jeff Birchall (University of Alberta, Canada); Attendance: 21

Targeted Meetings: • Graduate Seminar Series Co-Chair meetings (on-going) • Seminar Planning Committee meetings (throughout Jan-March 2020) • Workshop Planning Committee meetings (on-going)

Recent Relevant Partner Publications Articles: • Lede E, Pearce T, Furgal C, Sidle R, Ashford G and Ford J. (2021). The role of multiple stressors in adaptation to climate change in the Canadian Arctic. Regional Environmental Change. • McDonald-Yale, E., Birchall, SJ. (2021). The built environment in a winter climate. Landscape Research, https://doi.org/10.1080/01426397.2021.1881768. • Bonnett, N., Birchall, SJ. (2020). Coastal communities in the Circumpolar North and the need for sustainable climate adaptation approaches. Marine Policy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2020.104175. • Birchall, SJ. (2020). Coastal climate adaptation planning and evolutionary governance: Insights from Alaska. Marine Policy, Land and Sea Interaction Special Issue, 112. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2018.12.029. • Emanuelsen K, Pearce T, Oakes J, Harper S and Ford J. (2020). Sewing and Inuit women’s health in the Canadian Arctic. Social Science & Medicine. • Chen, W., Van Assche, K. A. M., Hynes, S., Bekkby, T., Christie, H. C., & Gundersen, H. (2020). Ecosystem accounting's potential to support coastal and marine governance. Marine Policy, 112, 103758.

SJ Birchall (Mar. 1, 2021) 4 of 7 • Naylor A, Ford J, Pearce T and Van Alstine J. (2020). Conceptualizing climate vulnerability in complex adaptive systems. One Earth. DOI: 10.1016/j.oneear.2020.04.011 • Pearce T, Ford J and Fawcett D (2020). Climate Change and implications for the proposed Canadian Northern Corridor. University of ’s School of , 13(21): 39. • Canosa I, Ford J, McDowell G, Jones J and Pearce T. (2020). Progress in climate change adaptation in the Arctic. Environmental Research Letters. • Worden E, Pearce T, Gruben M, Ross D, Kowana C and Loseto L. (2020). Social-ecological changes and implications for understanding the declining beluga whale (Delphinapterus leucas) harvest in Aklavik, NT. Arctic Science. • Pettit-Wade H, Pearce T, Kuptana D, Gallagher C, Scharffenberg K, Lea E, Hussey N and Loseto L. (2020). Inuit observations of a Tunicata bloom unusual for the Amundsen Gulf, western Canadian Arctic. Arctic Science. • Johnson N, Pearce T, Breton-Honeyman K, Etiendem DN and Loseto L. (2020). Knowledge co-production and co-management of Arctic wildlife. Arctic Science, 6: 124-126. • Nuttall, M. (2020). Water, ice and climate change in Northwest Greenland’ WIREs Water 7(3): https://doi.org/ 10.1002/wat2.1433. • Nuttall, M., Flora, J., & Andersen, A.O. (2020). Towards community-based narwhal conservation in Greenland. Science 370 (6515), 1: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/370/6515/416.1/tab-e-letters. • Loseto L, Breton-Honeyman K, Etiendem DN, Johnson N, Pearce T, Allen J, Amos A, Arqviq J, Baak E, Belanger E, Bourdages M, Brammer JR, Fawcett D, Gerin-Lajoie J, Gilbert G, Hansen-Craik K, Loring E, Perrin A and Slavitch M. (2020). Indigenous participation in peer review publications and the editorial process: reflections from a workshop. Arctic Science. • Pearce T and Myers E (2020). Nunamin Illihakvia: learning from the land, Ulukhaktok, NT, Canada. Alternatives Journal. 44(1): 5-47. • Ford J, King N, Galappaththi E, Pearce T, McDowell G and Harper S (2020). The resilience of Indigenous peoples to environmental change. One Earth. DOI: 10.1016/j.oneear.2020.05.014 • Boezeman, D., Donkers, H., Birchall, SJ. (2019). Coastal managed retreat: New branch on the climate adaptation tree. Geografie. https://geografie.nl/artikel/dit-lees-je-het-septembernummer-van-geografie-2019. • Birchall, SJ, Bonnett, N. (2019). Local-scale climate change stressors and policy response: The case of Homer, Alaska. and Management. https://doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2018.1537975. • Birchall, SJ., Bonnett, N. (2019). Thinning sea ice and thawing permafrost: Climate change adaptation planning in Nome, Alaska. Environmental Hazards. https://doi.org/10.1080/17477891.2019.1637331. • MacDonald, S., Birchall, SJ. (2019). Climate change resilience in the Canadian Arctic: The need for collaboration in the face of a changing landscape. Canadian Geographer, 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1111/ cag.12591. • Ford J, Clarke D, Pearce T, Berrang-Ford L, Copland L, Dawson J, Mark N and Harper S. (2019). Changing access to ice, land, and water in Arctic communities. Nature Climate Change, NCLIM-18091686B • Macdonald, D, Birchall, SJ. (2019). Immediate climate vulnerabilities: Climate change and planning policy in northern communities. In WL. Filho, PG. Özuyar, PJ. Pace, U. Azeiteiro and L. Brandli (Eds.), Climate Action, Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. London: Springer. https://doi.org/ 10.1007/978-3-319-71063-1_85-1. • Shields, R. Ruiz, F, Schonach, P. (2019). Beyond Melt Indigenous Lifeways in a Fading Cryosphere.’ with. Journal of Northern Studies, Special Issue. 13(2), 7-15. • Shields, R. (2019). The Illocutionary Force of Inuit Ice Vocabularies. Journal of Northern Studies, Special Issue.13(2), 93-107. • Nuttall, M. (2019). Icy, watery, liquescent: sensing and feeling climate change on Northwest Greenland’s coast. Journal of Northern Studies 14(2): 71-91.

Books: • Heleniak, T. (Nordregio) (2020) - Polar Peoples in the Future: Projections of the Arctic Populations. Working Paper, Executive Summary • Dodds, K.& Nuttall, M. (2019). The Arctic: what everyone needs to know. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 272.

Chapters: • Nuttall, M. (2021). Arctic ecology, Indigenous peoples and environmental governance, in David Thomas (ed.) Arctic Ecology. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, pp. 409-422. • Nuttall, M. & Callaghan, T.V. (2020). Preface, in Mark Nuttall and Terry V. Callaghan (eds.) The Arctic: environment, people, policy. London and New York: Routledge (book re-published in the Routledge Library Editions: Ecology series, with new Preface). • Dodds, K., & Nuttall, M. (2019). Geo-assembling narratives of sustainability in Greenland, in Ulrik Pram Gad and Jeppe Strandsberg (eds.) The Politics of Sustainability in the Arctic: reconfiguring identity, space, and time. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 224-241.

SJ Birchall (Mar. 1, 2021) 5 of 7 • Nuttall, M. (2019). Ice and the depths of the ocean: probing Greenland’s Melville Bay during the Cold War, in Stephen Bocking and Daniel Heidt (eds.) Cold Science: environmental knowledge in the North American Arctic during the Cold War. London and New York, pp. 23-41. • Nuttall, M. (2019). Sea ice, climate and resources: the changing nature of hunting along Greenland’s northwest coast, in Astrid B. Stensrud and Thomas Hylland Eriksen (eds). Climate, Capitalism and Communities: an anthropology of environmental overheating. London: Pluto Press, pp. 57-75. • Nuttall, M. (2019). Greenland matters: in the crosscurrents of Arctic change, in Robert R. Corell, Jong Deog Kim, Yoon Hyung Kim, Arild Moe, Charles E. Morrison, David L. VanderZwaag and Oran R. Young (eds.) The Arctic in World Affairs: A North Pacific Dialogue on Global-Arctic Interactions—the Arctic moves from periphery to centre. Busan: Korea Maritime Institute & Honolulu: East-West Centre, pp. 89-107.

(Contributing author - Nuttall, M.): • Meredith, M., M. Sommerkorn, S. Cassotta, C. Derksen, A. Ekaykin, A. Hollowed, G. Kofinas, A. Mackintosh, J. Melbourne-Thomas, M.M.C. Muelbert, G. Ottersen, H. Pritchard, and E.A.G. Schuur. (2019). Polar Regions. In: IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate [H.-O. Pörtner, D.C. Roberts, V. Masson-Delmotte, P. Zhai, M. Tignor, E. Poloczanska, K. Mintenbeck, A. Alegría, M. Nicolai, A. Okem, J. Petzold, B. Rama, N.M. Weyer (eds.)].

Press • The Explores Club newsletter. Local Planning, Climate Change and Resilience: https://mailchi.mp/ 95ecf2ff7e95/newsletter-february-2020. • University of Alberta Press Release. New international network on climate change: https://www.ualberta.ca/ science/news/2019/november/climate-change-resilience-network.

Recent Relevant Partner Talks (conferences, workshops) • Bonnett N, Birchall, SJ. (2021, March). Coastal communities in the Circumpolar North and the need for sustainable climate adaptation approaches. ATLAS Symposium, University of Alberta, Canada. • Pearce T. and Ford J. (2020, November). Climate change and implications for the proposed Canadian northern corridor. , School of Public Policy, Webinar Series – Northern Corridor Papers. • Birchall, SJ, van Assche, K. (2020, November). Coastal Climate Adaptation Planning and Evolutionary Governance in the Arctic. Conference on Ocean Governance: Action, insights and foreshadowing challenges. OceanGov, Bremen, Germany. • Pearce T. (2020, October). Learning that I knew very little: my journey in Arctic research. ArcticNet Student Association, Webinar Series – Life after graduate school. • Pearce T. (2020, October). Polar bear co-management and the politics of climate change in the Canadian Arctic. Natural Resources and Environmental Science Institute (NRESi) Colloquium, University of Northern British Columbia. • Birchall, SJ. (2020, September). The importance of being flexible: Research doesn’t always go the way you expect! Quick Response Research Workshop (PIII), Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction and the Natural Hazards Center. • Birchall, SJ. (2020, February). Keynote Address: Environmental extremes and the role of decision-makers in facilitating community resilience. Emergency Management Stakeholder Summit, Edmonton, Canada. • Naylor A, Kuptana A and Pearce T. (2020, February). Tooniktoyok: Inuit-led research on climate change risks and hunting costs. Adaptation 2020, , British Columbia, Canada. • Olifie G, Olifie, A, Fawcett D and Pearce T. (2020, February). Nunamin Illihakvia: an Inuit-led climate change adaptation initiative. Adaptation 2020, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. • Birchall, SJ. (2019, November). Integrating climate change into education and practice. UN Habitat - Planners for Climate Action Seminar. Nairobi, Kenya.

Grants/ Fellowships Successful: • Fulbright Arctic Initiative 2020, Dr. Sigridur Kristjansdottir (Agricultural University of Iceland, Iceland)

Unsuccessful: • Fulbright Arctic Initiative 2020, Dr. S. Jeff Birchall (University of Alberta, Canada), with University of Alaska Fairbanks (Host) • New Frontiers in Research Fund - Transformation 2020: What Happens in the Arctic does not Stay in the Arctic (WHASA): Regional to global-scale impacts of freshwater supply and transport change in the Labrador Sea • Co-chairs: Dr. S. Jeff Birchall and Dr. Mark Nuttall (University of Alberta, Canada). Work Package on: Coastal Communities and Impacts on Marine Activities. • Co-chairs: Dr. S. Jeff Birchall and Dr. Anita Dey Nuttall (University of Alberta, Canada). Work Package on: Local-scale Climate Impacts and Policy Guidance.

SJ Birchall (Mar. 1, 2021) 6 of 7 TN Cross-links • Arctic Sustainable Resources and Social Responsibility - Karin Buhmann (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark) • Arctic and Northern Governance - Gary Wilson (University of Northern British Columbia, Canada) • Natural Hazards - Katia Kontar (, United States) • Collaborative Resource Management - Finn Danielsen (NORDECO, Greenland)

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