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First Friday: “Bering Sea Storms: Past to Present” Exhibit Introduction with Arctic Coastal Geoscience Lab Director Chris Maio
April 4 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
First Friday: Bering Sea Storms: Past to Present Exhibit Introduction with Arctic Coastal Geoscience Lab Director Chris Maio
Friday, April 4 | free admission to all galleries from 4-6pm | lecture begins at 5pm, suggested donation of $5
Join us in the Main Gallery at the Pratt Museum for this introductory presentation, which will focus on the 2022 research cruise aboard the R/V Sikuliaq featured within the museum exhibit.
Arctic Coastal Geoscience Lab Director Chris Maio and UAF Geophysical Institute PhD student Reyce Bogardus will discuss the research methods and activities, life aboard the ship, and inclusion of Indigenous partners from the Qawalangin Tribe of Unalaska. The Aleutians Change video will be shown and an open discussion held.
Through the presentation, the audience will gain a better understanding of how exciting and fruitful ship-based research is and how the partnerships created in the project have led to numerous broader outcomes and impacts.
ABOUT CHRIS MAIO Chris has over 15 years of experience investigating coastal hazards and their impacts on people and the environment. He is an Associate Professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and serves as the director of both the Arctic Coastal Geoscience Lab and the Alaska Coastal Cooperative. His current research integrates coastal hazard assessments with local and Indigenous knowledge to understand and educate about how a warming climate is impacting rural coastal communities. Chris is also leading the newly funded Navigating the New Arctic ACTION project. Learn more: https://acgl.community.uaf.edu/ and https://alaskacoastal.org/
ABOUT REYCE BOGARDUS Reyce is a PhD student at the Geophysical Institute’s Arctic Coastal Geoscience Laboratory. He has carried out geospatial and stratigraphic studies around coastal Alaska for the last 10 years. His current research is contributing to a societally relevant data gap in the Aleutians through sedimentological reconstructions of intense storms and volcanic activity as well as validated hydro-dynamic models fed by real-world observations. These efforts were made possible by the University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System (UNOLS) vessel R/V Sikuliaq.
This lecture is supported by The Homer Foundation.