Project Status

January 2008

Sanikiluaq, Nunavut Canada – ELOKA project manager Chris McNeave traveled to Sanikiluaq to act as an advisor to members of a planning committee developing a strategy and approach for a proposed regional environmental study combining scientific observations with LTK from surrounding Inuit and Cree communities.

Abisko, Sweden – ELOKA consultant Henry Huntington traveled to the Abisko to meet with project partners to discuss ELOKA and partner status, and collaboration with the Abisko Scientific Research Station and the Saami community.

December 2007

Beginning in April 2008, ELOKA will work with Dr. Nicole Stuckenberger. Dr. Stuckenberger will provide LTK data from Shaktoolik (Iñupiat, Alaska) and Quaqtaq (Inuit, Quebec), which she is collecting in a study of their adaptation to climate change.

ELOKA began working with Dr. Martin Nweeia. Dr. Nweeia is working with narwhal hunters from Greenland and Baffin Island studying narwhal migration and their salinity-sensitive tusks.

Shari Gearheard presented a poster on ELOKA at the Annual Scientific Meeting of ArcticNet in Collingwood, Ontario.

November 2007

Sanikiluaq, Nunavut Canada – ELOKA project manager Chris McNeave met with community members and representatives from the Hudson Bay Bioregion Community-Based Monitoring Network and System (HUBB) to develop ELOKA and community relationships, and to identify ELOKA-related tasks.

October 2007

Anchorage, Alaska - ELOKA consultant Henry Huntington and project manager Chris McNeave met with partners and collaborators from ANSC, ABR and BSSN to review the projects and discuss partner status and needs from ELOKA.

March 2007

ELOKA approved for funding from NSF IPY program.

May 2006

First ELOKA proposal submitted to the National Science Foundation Program Solicitation: NSF 06-534, International Polar Year. View the proposal summary:

• ELOKA NSF Proposal (PDF file, ~55 KB)

November 2005

ICSU/WMO Joint Committee for the International Polar Year 2007-2008 endorses the full ELOKA proposal on the IPY Web site.