Community Partnerships for Self-Reliance
About
Community Partnerships for Self-Reliance (CPS) coordinates engagement and respectful knowledge-sharing between University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) and rural Alaska communities and community members, tribes, and organizations. These partnerships:
- support partners in developing and carrying out research priorities that are consistent with their long-term vision
- enhance research capacity at UAF by informing the research process with questions that matter to the future sustainability of Alaska’s unique and diverse rural communities.
History
CPS initially began in 2013 through a collaboration between UAF, the Alaska Native Science Commission and the communities of Igugig, Nikolai, Koyukuk, and Newtok that focused on:
- integrating renewable energy
- documenting the history of flooding
- identifying legal constraints for community relocation
- addressing the community impacts from salmon closures on the Kuskokwim River
Participants at the CPS May 2018 Adaptation Workshop in Fairbanks. Top, left to right: Marilyn Jones, Malinda Chase, Casey Brown, Rich Hum, Caroline Brown, Joe Metesi, Debra Lynn, Robin Reid, Ed Sarten, Don Honea, Walter Stickman, Ben Stevens, Steve Frank, Carrie Stevens, Lindsey Parkonson. Bottom, left to right: Tessa Hasbrouck, Todd Brinkman, Jennifer Probart-Erhart, Benedict Jones, Brooke Wright, Krista Heeringa.
For more information contact
Krista Heeringa, Program Lead for Community Partnerships for Self-Reliance
(907) 474-1880
Affiliated Faculty
Todd J. Brinkman, Assistant Professor of Wildlife & Biology
Terry Chapin III, Professor Emeritus of Ecology