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Dr. Victoria Qutuuq Buschman is an Iñupiaq wildlife and conservation biologist from Utqiaġvik, Alaska now permanently living in Nuuk, Greenland. She has lived and worked across the Arctic to explore how Indigenous peoples fundamentally shape Arctic biodiversity conservation, from research, to management, to the creation of new protected areas. Her role in research is to challenge the colonial legacy of conservation and instead promote partnerships with Indigenous communities, knowledge, and governance to develop ethically-conscious, culturally-relevant, and fullt knowledge-based conservation efforts in the Arctic. She currently serves as a Postdoctoral researcher at the International Arctic Research Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, though formally sits at the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources.

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Presenter abstracts and videos

• Frances Ianucci, UAF - Interactive limitation of organic carbon processing in boreal headwater streams

• Habiba Moshfeka, UAF - Analyzing cod bone and otoliths to trace connections between Icelanders and Atlantic cod over the last 1100 years

• Hannah Glesener, UAF - Characterizing the immune response of trembling aspen to an aggressive fungal pathogen in Interior Alaska

• Mary Stough, UAF -  A Dental Metric Biodistance Analysis of the Rong and the A'chik

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Presenter abstracts and videos

• Shannon Jimmie, UAF -  Sled dog hair analysis in a pre- and post- salmon diet.

• Sara Germain, UAF - TBA

• Jonathan Kamler, UAF - Efficient Wet-Biomass Fuel Production Via Supercritical Water

• Eleanor Ransdell-Green, UAF - Anaerobic metabolic remodeling in three-spine stickleback fish in response to thermal acclimation

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Presenter abstracts and videos

• Ruby Scanlon, UAF -  The Relationship of Substrate and Depth in Eastern Cook Inlet

• Sarah Dempsey, UAF - Moose habitat selection in the changing environment of southwest Alaska

• Courtney Pegus, UAF - A comparison of perceptions about the use of two different teaching pedagogies: Zoom, a video conferencing platform, and an experiential hands-on approach for teaching marine science in Bethel, Ak

• Jules Pender, UAF - The Diversity of Mercury Methylating Bacteria Across a Permafrost Thaw Gradient in Interior Alaska

• Daphne Muller, UAF - Microbial community diversity in sediments and water from the Chena River

• Kyungmin Kim, UAF - Characterization of the onset of the 2021–2022 Great Sitkin dome-building eruption through the inversion of LP seismicity

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• Sebastian Zavoico, UAF - The role of climate change in an expanding moose population in southwest Alaska

• Jake Cavaiani , UAF - The role of antecedent moisture conditions in high-latitude catchment biogeochemistry

• Sierra Cotrona, UAF -  Observer Variability in Dental Metrics

• Abigail Schiffmiller, UAF - Developing new movement models that combine GPS, heart rate, and accelerometry data to identify nuanced foraging behaviors of pelagic seabirds.

• Anna Rix, UAF -  Biogeography and phylogeography of lake trout in Alaska

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Darcy Peter supports the Polaris Project under Dr. Sue Natali. Her research primarily focuses on greenhouse gas emissions, permafrost thaw, and Arctic ecology.

Darcy is Gwich’in Athabascan from Beaver, Alaska, located along the Yukon River. She grew up living a subsistence way of life: fishing, hunting, and trapping in Beaver.

She received her B.S. from Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. Following her graduation in 2017, Peter worked for Alaska Native non-profits, in environmental science, policy, and social science. She has a broad understanding of Arctic policy, including tribe, city, corporate, state, academic, federal, non-profit, etc.

She is on six boards that range from state-wide (Alaska) to international, and is a firm believer that all research, if properly communicated to locals and policy-makers, has the power to induce change. In her free time, Darcy enjoys traveling, subsistence hunting, fishing, and trapping in Alaska.