H P Huntington
Biographic Data
| ID | 389580 |
|---|---|
| NAME | H P Huntington |
| GIVEN NAMES | H P |
| FAMILY NAME | Huntington |
| SIGNATURE | HUNTINGTON H P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Huntington University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2308-8677 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 52 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 80 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 52 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Between Personal Recordings and Shared Heritage: Reflections on Data Stewardship
“It’s Always a Learning Process”: A Preliminary Study of Traditional Food Safety Knowledge and Practices in Kotzebue, Alaska
In Kotzebue, Alaska, traditional Qikiqtaġruŋmiut food practices help reduce risks of food-borne diseases from locally harvested foods. Changes to climate and societal change affecting food systems may introduce new pathogens (e.g., avian influenza, neurotoxins from harmful algal blooms) to local food resources or increase the potential for known pathogens to cause illness (e.g., Clostridium botulinum, Brucella spp., Toxoplasma gondii). To learn m…
Predicting and forecasting disasters: A global scan of traditional and local knowledge
Prospects for Further International Cooperation in the Central Arctic Ocean: Report of a Roundtable Conference at Tongji University, Shanghai
China-U.S. cooperation in the Arctic Ocean: Prospects for a new Arctic exceptionalism
There are currently many sources of tension between the People’s Republic of China and the United States of America. In the Arctic, the relationship includes competition for influence as well as cooperation in governance, such as the Central Arctic Ocean (CAO) Fisheries Agreement. The prospect of further cooperation creates an opportunity for a new “Arctic exceptionalism,” in which China and the U.S. could move towards better mutual understanding…
"Put on Your Caribou Hat": Challenges to and Strategies for Successful Co-Stewardship of North American Caribou Herds
Integrating traditional and local knowledge into disaster risk reduction policies: Insights from Nepal, India and Bangladesh
George Noongwook (1949–2023)
Island music; an ardent advocate of Yupik and Iñupiaq whaling rights through his decades-long service to the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission; a dedicated and insightful scholar of his people and their environment; and devoted to his family and friends
Societal implications of a changing Arctic Ocean
The Arctic Ocean is undergoing rapid change: sea ice is being lost, waters are warming, coastlines are eroding, species are moving into new areas, and more. This paper explores the many ways that a changing Arctic Ocean affects societies in the Arctic and around the world. In the Arctic, Indigenous Peoples are again seeing their food security threatened and cultural continuity in danger of disruption. Resource development is increasing as is inte…
We Never Get Stuck: ” A Collaborative Analysis of Change and Coastal Community Subsistence Practices in the Northern Bering and Chukchi Seas, Alaska
The Indigenous communities of the northern Bering Sea and Chukchi Sea are experiencing extensive social, economic, and technological change. The region’s marine ecosystem is also characterized by a high degree of variability and by rapid change. Residents of eight coastal communities from Savoonga to Utqiaġvik were involved in the Chukchi Coastal Communities Project, which used the results of a literature review together with the experiences of t…
Iñupiaq Knowledge of Polar Bears ( Ursus maritimus ) in the Southern Beaufort Sea, Alaska
Successful wildlife management depends upon coordination and consultation with local communities. However, much of the research used to inform management is often derived solely from data collected directly from wildlife. Indigenous people living in the Arctic have a close connection to their environment, which provides unique opportunities to observe their environment and the ecology of Arctic species. Further, most northern Arctic communities o…
Applying the food–energy–water nexus concept at the local scale
Using critical geopolitical discourse to examine China’s engagement in Arctic affairs
The People’s Republic of China is increasingly active in Arctic affairs. Its 2018 Arctic Policy and other texts and actions have received considerable attention and scrutiny from other countries. We use a critical geopolitical discourse framework to consider a wide range of actors within China. Doing so advances the concept of ‘discourse’ in the field of critical geopolitics by considering various aspects of ‘practice’. After examining cases in t…
Stating the Significance of Our Work
Stating the Significance of Our WorkIn 2019
Data Availability Principles and Practice
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Evidence suggests potential transformation of the Pacific Arctic ecosystem is underway
Engaging Northern Indigenous Communities in Biophysical Research: Pitfalls and Successful Approaches
Guidelines and best practices to engage Indigenous people in Arctic regions in biophysical research have emerged since the 1990s. Despite these guidelines, mainstream scientists still struggle to create effective working relationships with Indigenous people and engage them in their research. We encountered this issue when we visited three communities on Alaska’s west coast to study impactful weather events and the formation of “slush ice berms,” …
International, Interdisciplinary, and Inviting
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Structured decision analysis informed by traditional ecological knowledge as a tool to strengthen subsistence systems in a changing Arctic
Christie, K. S., T. E. Hollmen, H. P. Huntington, and J. R. Lovvorn. 2018. Structured decision analysis informed by traditional ecological knowledge as a tool to strengthen subsistence systems in a changing Arctic. Ecology and Society 23(4):42. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10596-230442
How small communities respond to environmental change: Patterns From Tropical to Polar Ecosystems
Huntington, H. P., A. Begossi, S. Fox Gearheard, B. Kersey, P. A. Loring, T. Mustonen, P. K. Paudel, R. A. M. Silvano, and R. Vave. 2017. How small communities respond to environmental change: patterns from tropical to polar ecosystems. Ecology and Society 22(3):9. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09171-220309
Fierce Climate, Sacred Ground: An Ethnography of Climate Change in Shishmaref, Alaska, by Elizabeth Marino
Climigration? Population and climate change in Arctic Alaska
Residents of towns and villages in Arctic Alaska live on "the front line of climate change." Some communities face immediate threats from erosion and flooding associated with thawing permafrost, increasing river flows, and reduced sea ice protection of shorelines. The term climigration , referring to migration caused by climate change, originally was coined for these places. Although initial applications emphasized the need for government relocat…
Strong connections, loose coupling: The influence of the Bering Sea ecosystem on commercial fisheries and subsistence harvests in Alaska
Haynie, A. C., and H. P. Huntington. 2016. Strong connections, loose coupling: the influence of the Bering Sea ecosystem on commercial fisheries and subsistence harvests in Alaska. Ecology and Society 21(4):6.http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-08729-210406
Traditional Knowledge about Polar Bears ( Ursus maritimus ) in Northwestern Alaska
Polar bears (Ursus maritimus) are an iconic Arctic species, but residents of Arctic coastal communities are among the few who have opportunities to observe their behavior for extended periods of time. Documenting traditional knowledge about polar bears is thus an important research approach, especially in light of recent rapid changes to summer sea ice extent. We interviewed polar bear hunters in seven Alaska Native communities along the coast of…
Introduction: Local and traditional knowledge and data management in the Arctic
Understanding the environment in the broadest sense, especially a changing environment such as the Arctic, requires observations of many phenomena, spread over time and space, and recorded systemat
Matching Traditional and Scientific Observations to Detect Environmental Change: A Discussion on Arctic Terrestrial Ecosystems
It's Not that Simple”: A Collaborative Comparison of Sea Ice Environments, Their Uses, Observed Changes, and Adaptations in Barrow, Alaska, USA, and Clyde River, Nunavut, Canada
The Arctic environment, including sea ice, is changing. The impacts of these changes to Inuit and Iñupiat ways of life vary from place to place, yet there are common themes as well. The study reported here involved an exchange of hunters, Elders, and others from Barrow, Alaska, USA, and Clyde River, Nunavut, Canada, as members of a larger research team that also included visiting scientists. Although the physical environments of Barrow and Clyde …
How small communities respond to environmental change: Patterns From Tropical to Polar Ecosystems
Huntington, H. P., A. Begossi, S. Fox Gearheard, B. Kersey, P. A. Loring, T. Mustonen, P. K. Paudel, R. A. M. Silvano, and R. Vave. 2017. How small communities respond to environmental change: patterns from tropical to polar ecosystems. Ecology and Society 22(3):9. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09171-220309
Climigration? Population and climate change in Arctic Alaska
Residents of towns and villages in Arctic Alaska live on "the front line of climate change." Some communities face immediate threats from erosion and flooding associated with thawing permafrost, increasing river flows, and reduced sea ice protection of shorelines. The term climigration , referring to migration caused by climate change, originally was coined for these places. Although initial applications emphasized the need for government relocat…
Notions of Time and Sentience: Methodological Considerations for Arctic Climate Change Research
For anthropologists who are involved in Arctic climate change research, cultural conceptions of time and sentience have yet to receive explicit research attention, choosing rather to focus on the societal effects of climate change and formulating more adaptive human responses. Notwithstanding the value of this research, the methodologies often used tend to reflect a culturally based assumption that there exists a single characterization of time a…
The Significance of Context in Community-Based Research: Understanding Discussions about Wildfire in Huslia, Alaska
Huntington, H. P., S. F. Trainor, D. C. Natcher, O. H. Huntington, L. DeWilde, and F. Stuart Chapin III. 2006. The significance of context in community-based research: understanding discussions about wildfire in Huslia, Alaska. Ecology and Society 11(1): 40. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-01723-110140
Towards a Tipping Point in Responding to Change: Rising Costs, Fewer Options for Arctic and Global Societies
We Dance Around in a Ring and Suppose: Academic Engagement with Traditional Knowledge
The concept of "traditional knowledge" describes not a single entity, but a diverse and complex set of ways of knowing. Debates about the appropriateness of particular approaches to the study of traditional knowledge may miss the point in conflating not only the various forms of traditional knowledge, but also the different ways in which academic study engages that knowledge. Rather than seeking resolution in favor of a particular approach to the…
Societal implications of a changing Arctic Ocean
The Arctic Ocean is undergoing rapid change: sea ice is being lost, waters are warming, coastlines are eroding, species are moving into new areas, and more. This paper explores the many ways that a changing Arctic Ocean affects societies in the Arctic and around the world. In the Arctic, Indigenous Peoples are again seeing their food security threatened and cultural continuity in danger of disruption. Resource development is increasing as is inte…
Applying the food–energy–water nexus concept at the local scale
Using critical geopolitical discourse to examine China’s engagement in Arctic affairs
The People’s Republic of China is increasingly active in Arctic affairs. Its 2018 Arctic Policy and other texts and actions have received considerable attention and scrutiny from other countries. We use a critical geopolitical discourse framework to consider a wide range of actors within China. Doing so advances the concept of ‘discourse’ in the field of critical geopolitics by considering various aspects of ‘practice’. After examining cases in t…
Factors Contributing to the Cultural and Spatial Variability of Landscape Burning by Native Peoples of Interior Alaska
Natcher, D. C., M. Calef, O. Huntington, S. Trainor, H. P. Huntington, L. DeWilde, S. Rupp, and F. Stuart Chapin III. 2007. Factors contributing to the cultural and spatial variability of landscape burning by native peoples of Interior Alaska. Ecology and Society 12(1): 7. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-01999-120107
The Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission and other cooperative marine mammal management organizations in northern Alaska
The formation of the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission (AEWC) in 1977 was the first time that Native Alaskans had organized themselves to protect a specific hunting interest. The AEWC's success and prominence has led to the formation of other user-based management regimes for marine mammals in northern Alaska. This paper begins with a description of the creation and development of the AEWC as it fought the ban by the International Whaling Commissi…
Voices from the Bay: Traditional Ecological Knowledge of Inuit and Cree in the Hudson Bay Bioregion, compiled by Miriam McDonald, Lucassie Arragutainaq, and Zack Novalinga
Observations on the Utility of the Semi-directive Interview for Documenting Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) offers ecological information and insight relevant to ecological management and research that cannot be obtained from other sources. Its use is hindered by difficulties of access, in that TEK is typically not available to a wide audience. Documentation can overcome this obstacle, allowing TEK to be considered with other forms of easily disseminated information. This paper describes the author's experience us…
Traditional Knowledge of the Ecology of Beluga Whales ( Delphinapterus leucas ) in the Eastern Chukchi and Northern Bering Seas, Alaska
Traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) has been used opportunistically in biological studies of beluga whales (Delphinapterus leucas) in Alaska, but no previous research has documented this knowledge systematically. This first such effort, which took place in Norton Bay, Buckland, and Point Lay, Alaska, provided descriptions of migratory and local movements, feeding, calving, ecological interactions, and human influences on distribution and behav…
Traditional Knowledge of the Ecology of Beluga Whales ( Delphinapterus leucas ) in the Northern Bering Sea, Chukotka, Russia
The first systematic effort to document traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) of beluga whales (Delphinapterus leucas) in Russia was conducted in the villages of Sireniki, Novoe Chaplino, Yanrakinnot, and Uelen, in the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug. The findings describe migratory and local movements, feeding, calving, ecological interactions, and human influences on distribution and behavior. The results add considerable detail to published account…
Using Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Science: Methods and Applications
Advocates of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) have promoted its use in scientific research, impact assessment, and ecological understanding. While several examples illustrate the utility of applying TEK in these contexts, wider application of TEK-derived information remains elusive. In part, this is due to continued inertia in favor of established scientific practices and the need to describe TEK in Western scientific terms. In part, it is …
Hunting Tradition in a Changing World: Yup'ik Lives in Alaska Today, by Ann Fienup-Riordan, with William Tyson, Paul John, Marie Meade, and John Active
The Barrow Symposium on Sea Ice, 2000: Evaluation of One Means of Exchanging Information between Subsistence Whalers and Scientists
A Barrow Symposium on Sea Ice (BSSI) was held in early winter 2000. The National Science Foundation (U.S.) funded this symposium as the keystone event in a project designed to ally traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) with formal ice research and remote sensing. The goal of the project was to stimulate substantive interactions between scientists and technicians who study sea ice on one hand, and Inupiat Eskimos (primarily whaling captains and t…
Human Dimensions Of The Arctic System
In 1997, the National Science Foundation (USA) started a project called Human Dimensions of the Arctic System, given the acronym HARC. This initiative was part of the Arctic System Science Program, intended to promote understanding of the processes and feedbacks that involve and shape the physical, biological, and social components of the Arctic. HARC, in turn, was designed to boost research involving those social components, examining ways in wh…
Observations on Shorefast Ice Dynamics in Arctic Alaska and the Responses of the Iñupiat Hunting Community
Although shorefast sea ice forms a platform that facilitates travel, camping, and hunting by Iñupiat subsistence hunters and fishers in the western Arctic, the nearshore sea-ice zone remains an unforgiving and dynamic environment. Traditional hunters constantly hone site-specific experiences and skills with which to optimize the reward-to-risk ratio inherent in operating from this coastal ice. Nearshore ice conditions nevertheless can change sudd…
Matching Traditional and Scientific Observations to Detect Environmental Change: A Discussion on Arctic Terrestrial Ecosystems
Evidence and Implications of Recent Climate Change in Northern Alaska and Other Arctic Regions
We Dance Around in a Ring and Suppose: Academic Engagement with Traditional Knowledge
The concept of "traditional knowledge" describes not a single entity, but a diverse and complex set of ways of knowing. Debates about the appropriateness of particular approaches to the study of traditional knowledge may miss the point in conflating not only the various forms of traditional knowledge, but also the different ways in which academic study engages that knowledge. Rather than seeking resolution in favor of a particular approach to the…
It's Not that Simple”: A Collaborative Comparison of Sea Ice Environments, Their Uses, Observed Changes, and Adaptations in Barrow, Alaska, USA, and Clyde River, Nunavut, Canada
The Arctic environment, including sea ice, is changing. The impacts of these changes to Inuit and Iñupiat ways of life vary from place to place, yet there are common themes as well. The study reported here involved an exchange of hunters, Elders, and others from Barrow, Alaska, USA, and Clyde River, Nunavut, Canada, as members of a larger research team that also included visiting scientists. Although the physical environments of Barrow and Clyde …
The Significance of Context in Community-Based Research: Understanding Discussions about Wildfire in Huslia, Alaska
Huntington, H. P., S. F. Trainor, D. C. Natcher, O. H. Huntington, L. DeWilde, and F. Stuart Chapin III. 2006. The significance of context in community-based research: understanding discussions about wildfire in Huslia, Alaska. Ecology and Society 11(1): 40. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-01723-110140
Factors Contributing to the Cultural and Spatial Variability of Landscape Burning by Native Peoples of Interior Alaska
Natcher, D. C., M. Calef, O. Huntington, S. Trainor, H. P. Huntington, L. DeWilde, S. Rupp, and F. Stuart Chapin III. 2007. Factors contributing to the cultural and spatial variability of landscape burning by native peoples of Interior Alaska. Ecology and Society 12(1): 7. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-01999-120107
Notions of Time and Sentience: Methodological Considerations for Arctic Climate Change Research
For anthropologists who are involved in Arctic climate change research, cultural conceptions of time and sentience have yet to receive explicit research attention, choosing rather to focus on the societal effects of climate change and formulating more adaptive human responses. Notwithstanding the value of this research, the methodologies often used tend to reflect a culturally based assumption that there exists a single characterization of time a…
Ambivalence toward Formalizing Customary Resource Management Norms among Alaska Native Beluga Whale Hunters and Tohono O'odham Livestock Owners
Indigenous communities are increasingly asked to develop formal resource management plans, which often require them to codify implicit, norm-based management systems. We compare the experiences of two indigenous groups that attempted to develop such management plans for beluga whales and arid rangelands, respectively. In both cases, progress was slow or plans did not meet design criteria such as clearly defined spatial and social boundaries. We f…
Traditional Knowledge of the Bowhead Whale ( Balaena mysticetus ) around St. Lawrence Island, Alaska
Despite considerable research on the bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) in Alaskan waters, relatively little has been conducted in the northern Bering Sea. To help fill this gap, we documented traditional knowledge of bowhead whales held by Yupik whalers of St. Lawrence Island, Alaska. Results include descriptions of the seasonal movements, distribution, and abundance of bowheads near St. Lawrence Island. The bowhead population appears to be incr…
Hunters at the Margin: Native People and Wildlife Conservation in the Northwest Territories, by John Sandlos
Who Are the "Authors" When Traditional Knowledge is Documented
Kiumajut (Talking Back): Game Management and Inuit Rights 1900–1970, by Peter Kulchyski and Frank James Tester
Scenarios for Global Biodiversity in the 21st Century
Assessing Biodiversity Declines Understanding human impact on biodiversity depends on sound quantitative projection. Pereira et al. (p. 1496 , published online 26 October) review quantitative scenarios that have been developed for four main areas of concern: species extinctions, species abundances and community structure, habitat loss and degradation, and shifts in the distribution of species and biomes. Declines in biodiversity are projected for…
Integrating Traditional and Scientific Knowledge through Collaborative Natural Science Field Research: Identifying Elements for Success
We discuss two recent projects to examine the role of collaborative environmental fieldwork both in research and in the interactions between academically trained researchers and experienced local residents. The Bidarki Project studied black leather chitons (Katharina tunicata) in the lower Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. Its conclusion that chiton declines are part of a serial decline of intertidal invertebrates drew on collaborative fieldwork, archaeol…
The role of data management in engaging communities in Arctic research: Overview of the Exchange for Local Observations and Knowledge of the Arctic (Eloka)
Local and traditional knowledge (LTK) was a key component of many projects in the 2007–2009 International Polar Year (IPY) and much information was amassed through maps, interviews with local experts, photographs, artwork, and other forms of documentation. Unlike conventional physical and life sciences, few options exist for those seeking data management for social, cultural, or traditional knowledge projects. This poses many problems for researc…
Geography (36 works) · Indigenous Studies and Ecology (35 works) · Ecology (25 works) · Arctic (22 works) · Biology (20 works) · Ecology (20 works) · Arctic and Russian Policy Studies (16 works) · Political science (16 works) · Oceanography (15 works) · Climate change (14 works)