Jennifer I Schmidt
Biographic Data
| ID | 3588684 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer I Schmidt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer I |
| FAMILY NAME | Schmidt |
| SIGNATURE | SCHMIDT J I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alaska Anchorage |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0945-3204 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Fueling Fire-Adapted Communities Through a Rapid Wildfire Structure Risk Assessment
While wildfires can be beneficial and part of a natural process, there have been numerous instances around the world, particularly in recent years, where wildfires have had devastating consequences for society. Weather conditions have created extreme wildfire behavior, resulting in speeds and intensities that can overpower suppression resources. It is ever more critical that communities and agencies take actions to mitigate and prevent wildfire d…
Analysis on the effectiveness of International Maritime Organization’s ‘Areas to be Avoided’ policy on vessel traffic in the Bering Strait (2015–2022)
Off the grid and on the fence: Unpacking electric vehicle adoption barriers in isolated microgrids
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions is an international impetus to transition from vehicles with internal combustion engines (ICE) to electric vehicles (EV). While this transition is happening rapidly in some regions of the world that are mainly urbanized, other predominantly rural and less developed regions are slower to adopt this technology. Rural Alaska serves as an example with its not-road-connected communities, high cost of electricity, extr…
Increasing multi-hazard climate risk and financial and health impacts on northern homeowners
Currently, more than half of the world’s human population lives in urban areas, which are increasingly affected by climate hazards. Little is known about how multi-hazard environments affect people, especially those living in urban areas in northern latitudes. This study surveyed homeowners in Anchorage and Fairbanks, USA, Alaska’s largest urban centers, to measure individual risk perceptions, mitigation response, and damages related to wildfire,…
Global gateways as telecoupled human and natural systems: The emerging case of the Bering Strait
Numerous narrow marine passages around the world serve as essential gateways for the transportation of goods, the movement of people, and the migration of fish and wildlife. These global gateways facilitate human–nature interactions across distant regions. The socioeconomic and environmental interactions among distant coupled human and natural systems affect the sustainability of global gateways in complex ways. However, the assessment and analys…
Applying the food–energy–water nexus concept at the local scale
Building adaptive capacity in a changing Arctic by use of technology
Rapid Arctic warming, manifested as thawing permafrost, loss of coastal sea ice, sea level rise, and climate-related extreme events, is particularly challenging for Indigenous people relying on wild food to sustain their livelihood and culture. The adoption of new technologies could provide specific capabilities to confront vulnerabilities associated with fishing and hunting activities, but it could also accentuate existing vulnerabilities of the…
Comparing adaptive capacity of Arctic communities responding to environmental change
Berman, M. D., J. I. Schmidt, and G. Kofinas 2021. Comparing adaptive capacity of Arctic communities responding to environmental change. Ecology and Society 26(3):22. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12304-260322
Collaborative climate mitigation and adaptation planning with university, community, and municipal partners: A case study in Anchorage, Alaska
Cities around the world are creating formal planning documents proposing local actions to mitigate and prepare for the impacts of climate change. Despite a growing number of examples of such plans and “toolkits” that outline the process for undertaking these planning efforts, many cities are still struggling to know where to start. Furthermore, meta-analyses of existing climate action plans show that many suffer from similar limitations including…
Stoking the flame: Subsistence and wood energy in rural Alaska, United States
Energy costs are large and increasing in rural Alaska communities, so communities are turning to renewable energy. While, many of these communities have a mixed subsistence-cash economy, the relationship between renewable energy and subsistence has not been studied. Tanana, Alaska has a biomass program and we conducted interviews with 61 households in 2017 to understand how residents perceive the program and its association with subsistence activ…
Predicting the Food-Energy Nexus of Wild Food Systems: Informing Energy Transitions for Isolated Indigenous Communities
Many isolated and indigenous Arctic and Subarctic communities are mixed-subsistence-cash economies. In the 20th century, the integration of motorized transport expanded access to harvestable resources but created energy dependence intricately linking food with energy security. As remote communities became more vulnerable to fossil fuel price fluctuations, they also face new challenges related to climate change such as shorter winter seasons. The …
Hitchhikers on floats to Arctic freshwater: Private aviation and recreation loss from aquatic invasion
This study of aviation-related recreation loss shows that a survey primarily aimed at collecting information on invasive species’ pathways can also be used to estimate changes in pathway-related ecosystem services. We present a case study for Elodea spp. (elodea), Alaska’s first known aquatic invasive plant, by combining respondents’ stated pre-invasion actual flights with stated post-invasion contingent behavior, plane operating costs, and site …
Economic Effects of Climate Change in Alaska
We summarize the potential nature and scope of economic effects of climate change in Alaska that have already occurred and are likely to become manifest over the next 30–50 years. We classified potential effects discussed in the literature into categories according to climate driver, type of environmental service affected, certainty and timing of the effects, and potential magnitude of economic consequences. We then described the nature of import…
Transitions of social-ecological subsistence systems in the Arctic
Transitions of social-ecological systems (SES) expose governance systems to new challenges. This is particularly so in the Arctic where resource systems are increasingly subjected to global warming, industrial development and globalization which subsequently alter the local SES dynamics. Based on common-pool resource theory, we developed a dynamic conceptual model explaining how exogenous drivers might alter a traditional subsistence system from …
Demographic and economic disparities among Arctic regions
We use demographic and economic indicators to analyze spatial differences and temporal\ntrends across 18 regions surrounding the Arctic Ocean. Multifactor and cluster analysis\nwere used on 10 indicators reflecting income, employment and demography from 1995\nto 2008. The main difference is between regions with high population densities, low\nnatural growth rate, and low unemployment (Russia, Norway and Iceland) and regions\nwith high unemploymen…
Measuring and Correcting Response Heaping Arising From the Use of Prototypes
Imprecision in respondent recall can cause response heaping in frequency data for particular values (e.g., 5, 10, 15). In human dimensions research, heaping can occur for variables such as days of participation (e.g., hunting, fishing), animals/fish harvested, or money spent on licenses. Distributions with heaps can bias population estimates because the means and totals can be inflated or deflated. Because bias can result in poor management decis…
Relationship of Community Characteristics to Harvest Reporting: Comparative Study of Household Surveys and Harvest Tickets in Alaska
Accurate harvest reporting is critical for wildlife management. Rural Alaskan communities reported a median of 42% of moose harvested via traditional harvest tickets compared to those reported in household surveys. This harvest-report ratio did not change over time. Twice as many moose were reported harvested during subsistence household surveys (n = 8,039) than on hunter harvest tickets (n = 3,557). Percentage of the community that was indigenou…
Transitions of social-ecological subsistence systems in the Arctic
Transitions of social-ecological systems (SES) expose governance systems to new challenges. This is particularly so in the Arctic where resource systems are increasingly subjected to global warming, industrial development and globalization which subsequently alter the local SES dynamics. Based on common-pool resource theory, we developed a dynamic conceptual model explaining how exogenous drivers might alter a traditional subsistence system from …
Applying the food–energy–water nexus concept at the local scale
Comparing adaptive capacity of Arctic communities responding to environmental change
Berman, M. D., J. I. Schmidt, and G. Kofinas 2021. Comparing adaptive capacity of Arctic communities responding to environmental change. Ecology and Society 26(3):22. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12304-260322
Predicting the Food-Energy Nexus of Wild Food Systems: Informing Energy Transitions for Isolated Indigenous Communities
Many isolated and indigenous Arctic and Subarctic communities are mixed-subsistence-cash economies. In the 20th century, the integration of motorized transport expanded access to harvestable resources but created energy dependence intricately linking food with energy security. As remote communities became more vulnerable to fossil fuel price fluctuations, they also face new challenges related to climate change such as shorter winter seasons. The …
Relationship of Community Characteristics to Harvest Reporting: Comparative Study of Household Surveys and Harvest Tickets in Alaska
Accurate harvest reporting is critical for wildlife management. Rural Alaskan communities reported a median of 42% of moose harvested via traditional harvest tickets compared to those reported in household surveys. This harvest-report ratio did not change over time. Twice as many moose were reported harvested during subsistence household surveys (n = 8,039) than on hunter harvest tickets (n = 3,557). Percentage of the community that was indigenou…
Demographic and economic disparities among Arctic regions
We use demographic and economic indicators to analyze spatial differences and temporal\ntrends across 18 regions surrounding the Arctic Ocean. Multifactor and cluster analysis\nwere used on 10 indicators reflecting income, employment and demography from 1995\nto 2008. The main difference is between regions with high population densities, low\nnatural growth rate, and low unemployment (Russia, Norway and Iceland) and regions\nwith high unemploymen…
Measuring and Correcting Response Heaping Arising From the Use of Prototypes
Imprecision in respondent recall can cause response heaping in frequency data for particular values (e.g., 5, 10, 15). In human dimensions research, heaping can occur for variables such as days of participation (e.g., hunting, fishing), animals/fish harvested, or money spent on licenses. Distributions with heaps can bias population estimates because the means and totals can be inflated or deflated. Because bias can result in poor management decis…
Transitions of social-ecological subsistence systems in the Arctic
Transitions of social-ecological systems (SES) expose governance systems to new challenges. This is particularly so in the Arctic where resource systems are increasingly subjected to global warming, industrial development and globalization which subsequently alter the local SES dynamics. Based on common-pool resource theory, we developed a dynamic conceptual model explaining how exogenous drivers might alter a traditional subsistence system from …
Economic Effects of Climate Change in Alaska
We summarize the potential nature and scope of economic effects of climate change in Alaska that have already occurred and are likely to become manifest over the next 30–50 years. We classified potential effects discussed in the literature into categories according to climate driver, type of environmental service affected, certainty and timing of the effects, and potential magnitude of economic consequences. We then described the nature of import…
Collaborative climate mitigation and adaptation planning with university, community, and municipal partners: A case study in Anchorage, Alaska
Cities around the world are creating formal planning documents proposing local actions to mitigate and prepare for the impacts of climate change. Despite a growing number of examples of such plans and “toolkits” that outline the process for undertaking these planning efforts, many cities are still struggling to know where to start. Furthermore, meta-analyses of existing climate action plans show that many suffer from similar limitations including…
Stoking the flame: Subsistence and wood energy in rural Alaska, United States
Energy costs are large and increasing in rural Alaska communities, so communities are turning to renewable energy. While, many of these communities have a mixed subsistence-cash economy, the relationship between renewable energy and subsistence has not been studied. Tanana, Alaska has a biomass program and we conducted interviews with 61 households in 2017 to understand how residents perceive the program and its association with subsistence activ…
Predicting the Food-Energy Nexus of Wild Food Systems: Informing Energy Transitions for Isolated Indigenous Communities
Many isolated and indigenous Arctic and Subarctic communities are mixed-subsistence-cash economies. In the 20th century, the integration of motorized transport expanded access to harvestable resources but created energy dependence intricately linking food with energy security. As remote communities became more vulnerable to fossil fuel price fluctuations, they also face new challenges related to climate change such as shorter winter seasons. The …
Hitchhikers on floats to Arctic freshwater: Private aviation and recreation loss from aquatic invasion
This study of aviation-related recreation loss shows that a survey primarily aimed at collecting information on invasive species’ pathways can also be used to estimate changes in pathway-related ecosystem services. We present a case study for Elodea spp. (elodea), Alaska’s first known aquatic invasive plant, by combining respondents’ stated pre-invasion actual flights with stated post-invasion contingent behavior, plane operating costs, and site …
Applying the food–energy–water nexus concept at the local scale
Building adaptive capacity in a changing Arctic by use of technology
Rapid Arctic warming, manifested as thawing permafrost, loss of coastal sea ice, sea level rise, and climate-related extreme events, is particularly challenging for Indigenous people relying on wild food to sustain their livelihood and culture. The adoption of new technologies could provide specific capabilities to confront vulnerabilities associated with fishing and hunting activities, but it could also accentuate existing vulnerabilities of the…
Comparing adaptive capacity of Arctic communities responding to environmental change
Berman, M. D., J. I. Schmidt, and G. Kofinas 2021. Comparing adaptive capacity of Arctic communities responding to environmental change. Ecology and Society 26(3):22. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12304-260322
Global gateways as telecoupled human and natural systems: The emerging case of the Bering Strait
Numerous narrow marine passages around the world serve as essential gateways for the transportation of goods, the movement of people, and the migration of fish and wildlife. These global gateways facilitate human–nature interactions across distant regions. The socioeconomic and environmental interactions among distant coupled human and natural systems affect the sustainability of global gateways in complex ways. However, the assessment and analys…
Increasing multi-hazard climate risk and financial and health impacts on northern homeowners
Currently, more than half of the world’s human population lives in urban areas, which are increasingly affected by climate hazards. Little is known about how multi-hazard environments affect people, especially those living in urban areas in northern latitudes. This study surveyed homeowners in Anchorage and Fairbanks, USA, Alaska’s largest urban centers, to measure individual risk perceptions, mitigation response, and damages related to wildfire,…
Analysis on the effectiveness of International Maritime Organization’s ‘Areas to be Avoided’ policy on vessel traffic in the Bering Strait (2015–2022)
Off the grid and on the fence: Unpacking electric vehicle adoption barriers in isolated microgrids
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions is an international impetus to transition from vehicles with internal combustion engines (ICE) to electric vehicles (EV). While this transition is happening rapidly in some regions of the world that are mainly urbanized, other predominantly rural and less developed regions are slower to adopt this technology. Rural Alaska serves as an example with its not-road-connected communities, high cost of electricity, extr…
Fueling Fire-Adapted Communities Through a Rapid Wildfire Structure Risk Assessment
While wildfires can be beneficial and part of a natural process, there have been numerous instances around the world, particularly in recent years, where wildfires have had devastating consequences for society. Weather conditions have created extreme wildfire behavior, resulting in speeds and intensities that can overpower suppression resources. It is ever more critical that communities and agencies take actions to mitigate and prevent wildfire d…
Geography (15 works) · Ecology (12 works) · Biology (11 works) · Environmental resource management (8 works) · Business (7 works) · Economics (7 works) · Arctic (6 works) · Arctic and Russian Policy Studies (6 works) · Climate change (6 works) · Environmental Science (6 works)