Alaska Berry Futures
Preparing for a berry-filled future in a changing world
Alaska Berry Futures strives to provide current knowledge about northern berry species, expose gaps in our knowledge and inform Alaskans about how we can plan for changing berry resources.
Five berry booklets, including the latest ones on crowberries and salmonberries, are now available!
Download and read the complete Berries in Alaska's Changing Environment Series
Our Zotero database is now available to the public!
Want to access an awesome database with lots of references (with emphasis on our five focal species)? Go to our Alaska Berry Futures Zotero Database and check out the > 600 references. This is a public resource, so please add more references. Please TAG references with, at a minimum, the scientific name and the topic (e.g., Vaccinium vitis-idaea, pollination).
The link is: https://www.zotero.org/groups/4456151/alaska_berry_futures
Take a peek inside the booklets:
Our goals:
Connect scientists, educators, resource managers and community members to expand our understanding of berries in a changing world.
Provide information about how important berries will respond/are responding to climate change to resource managers, policy makers, berry eaters and educators.
Work with researchers and community members to identify information needs and knowledge gaps.
Promote active research and spread citizen science projects, providing opportunities to students and others to monitor berries and contribute to science
Enhance understanding of berry ecology.
The Alaska Berry Futures Project produced:
Berry booklets for community members and resource managers. These are accessible, illustrated descriptions of each species, the threats it faces from climate change, and the opportunities for increasing berry production. Each booklet also includes a summary of knowledge gaps for current and future berry researchers. We hope this will serve as inspiration for future research projects.
A Zotero literature database for researchers that underlies all our other documents and can be filtered by tags. Want to access an awesome database with lots of references (with emphasis on cloudberry (Rubus chamaemorus), bog blueberry (Vaccinium uliginosum), lowbush cranberry (V. vitis-idaea), crowberry (Empetrum nigrum), or salmonberry (R. spectabilis) )? Go to our Alaska Berry Futures Zotero Database and check out the > 600 references. This is a public resource, so please add more references. Please TAG references with, at a minimum, the scientific name and the topic (e.g., Vaccinium vitis-idaea, pollination). The link is: https://www.zotero.org/groups/4456151/alaska_berry_futures
A guide for monitoring berries in your community.
A series of Public Listening Sessions to gather current concerns and share adaptation strategies and ideas for berries in Alaska's changing environment.
Click on the berry of your interest to learn more about berry biology, interactions with other organisms, human use, climate threats and more.
"Can we agree that we are grateful that the berries are with us in the world and send our thanksgiving, love, and respect to the berries?
Now our minds are one."
From the Onandaga Thanksgiving Address, as shared by Robin Wall Kimmerer in Braiding Sweetgrass