Overview
Vision
The vision of IoC is to build resilience in Gulf of Alaska coastal communities through co-developed, use-inspired research on land-to-ocean linkages that influence marine resources using place-based, equitable science.
Mission
The mission is for IoC researchers to work collaboratively with coastal community partners to identify consequences of climate-induced changes on marine resources and to model potential community adaptation strategies. IoC researchers will work in parallel with rural communities, industry farmers, and agency managers to identify and link environmental drivers and the consequences of climate-induced changes to marine wild harvested and farmed resources.
Goals
The goals of IoC are to:
1) build collaborative research capacity to assess how climate-induced changes affect marine resources on which Gulf of Alaska coastal communities are reliant, and
2) generate environmental data and web-based tools to inform adaptive community solutions to sustainably harvest and farm marine resources in a changing climate. Research will take place across University of Alaska (UA) campuses in Fairbanks (UAF), Anchorage (UAA) and Juneau (UAS) and align strongly with both UA research goals and the State of Alaska’s Science and Technology Plan.