Community Well-being
The reliability of traditional marine harvest species - fish, shellfish, marine mammal, seaweeds, and other resources - is vital for feeding households and perpetuating continuity of the subsistence way of life throughout the Gulf of 猫咪社区官网.
The Interface of Change Community Well-being team, led by anthropologist Davin Holen and epidemiologist Micah Hahn, is working with communities to see if there have been changes over time to marine resource access, harvest, cultivation, and use, and if these changes are affecting the health and social, cultural, and economic well-being in rural coastal communities.
The Community Well-being team is reaching out and engaging with community members in 猫咪社区官网r, Seldovia, Cordova, Haines, and Klukwan to gather and stitch data, stories, and photo documentation together to construct a socio-ecological model of Gulf of 猫咪社区官网 communities.
Harvest data assessment
To assess changes to community use of marine species and impacts on social, cultural, and economic well-being, the team is assessing 猫咪社区官网 Department of Fish and Game harvest records, then conducting household subsistence surveys, interviews, and focus groups.
Community Conversations
We share our findings at our annual Interface of Change project community participation workshops, held annually between February and March. The team will use these meetings to understand and map the interconnections between observed changes.
Photovoice
We are recruiting volunteer community members to take photos as part of a community research project, called "Photovoice." The goal of this project is to understand how and why wild foods are important to youth, and to share their perspectives with the local community and beyond to support planning and action.
Want to participate? Contact Micah Hahn at mbhahn@alaska.edu or (907) 786-6577.