Indigenous communities. Over the past three years, Mariia has conducted research in remote areas of Mongolia, Tyva, Buryatia, Sakha, Magadan, Amur regions, as well as in Alaska. Her research interests include regional economy, actor-network approach, complex networks, tourism, remote areas, indigenous communities, and sustainable development. Mariia has been developing the Buryat national sport shatar (one of the types of chess) since 2019. In July 2023, Mariia organized a large regional shatar tournament in the Bayandaevsky district during the regional Sur-Kharban celebration.

include the global change impacts on the Arctic Indigenous social-ecological systems, Indigenous economy, subsistence, regional development, Indigenous fisheries, and salmon conservation, among others. Her work at ARCTICenter focuses on Indigenous economy and traditional subsistence practices, social and economic development, Indigenous social-ecological systems, and sustainability. Her life, work, and research are inspired by rich heritage, worldviews, and wisdom of her Itelmen People and Indigenous Peoples of the North in Kamchatka (Kamchadals, Koryak, Even, Aleut (Unangax̂), Siberian Yupik).

Stanislav aims to decolonize western science-based system of knowledge and to bring Indigenous ways of knowing and being. Dr. Ksenofontov examines the vulnerability of Arctic Indigenous social-ecological systems to global change drivers, namely climate change, industrial development, socio-political transformations. Other research interests include Arctic Indigenous sustainability, Arctic urbanization, Indigenous identities, infrastructural violence of Russian energy megaprojects.

and 1930s, Russian and Soviet hosiery and Russian language pedagogy. Dr. Boruta-Sadkowski is Professor Emerita of History and has taught at the UNI Modern Languages and History Departments for several decades and remains UNI's preeminent authority on Russia and Soviet Union. She presented at numerous conferences in Slavic studies in the United States, Canada, Belarus, and the Russian Federation. She has published many articles and book reviews on the Belarusian and Russian languages and literatures. Since 2018 Dr. Alicja Boruta-Sadkowski has been teaching a course on Social Welfare at Shanghai Dian Ji University Business School, as a part of collaboration between the University of Northern Iowa School of Business and Shanghai Dian Ji Business School. At the ARCTICenter Dr. Boruta-Sadkowski's is the leading Arctic humanities scholar focusing on representation of the Arctic Indigenous Peoples in Soviet, Russian and Indigenous cinematography.

housing, and other elements of well-being. She has also studied geographies of health and the COVID-19 pandemic in the Arctic specifically. She received her Ph.D. from Mississippi State University where her doctoral research traced socioeconomic and spatial processes related to food insecurity, environmental migration, and neighborhood segregation.

Professor at the Department of Anthropology, University of Victoria. Her work is centered around Indigenous visions to sustainability, language revitalization and Indigenous storywork.

established in 1990 in Kamchatka. Pechen served as the race’s executive director from its foundation until 2010. Aleksandr Pechen is a filmmaker, producer, and Arctic sports enthusiast. As a visiting scholar at the ARCTICenter, he dedicates his efforts to organizing inspiring photo exhibitions in Alaska and Iowa that celebrate the rich cultural heritage of Indigenous peoples from Kamchatka and Chukotka, alongside the exciting Beringia Sled Dog Race.

socioeconomic factors.

and Governance (ESG) frameworks, and natural resources management. My research interests lie at the intersection of environmental pollution, environmental justice, and climate-related risk mitigation, with a particular focus on vulnerable and resource-constrained communities.

Currently, I am engaged in research exploring flood recovery adaptation strategies and environmental justice conflicts in Alaska, where I assess the socio-environmental implications of repeated flooding events and the effectiveness of local and institutional responses. This work emphasizes the systemic inequities underlying environmental exposure and resilience capacity in marginalized regions.

indigenous organizations and institutions in Canada and their role in shaping wealth distribution and inequality. I am also deeply interested in indigenous resilience, sustainable development, and equitable economic systems.

in common pool research management and analyzing climate change events.

interests focus on GIS and remote sensing applications for extreme events and human-environment interactions.

historical fisheries data for remote coastal communities. Jesse’s research interest is in community sustainability - which includes further interests in sustenance, infrastructure, and environment hazards.