Discussion Questions: Alaska Native Teens Help Researchers
- What do you think are the benefits of having students partner with scientists on local research projects?
- How can traditional knowledge and wisdom and the Western scientific process complement and supplement each other?
- Consider the changes in wildlife that you would expect to occur as tundra changes to boreal forest. How would the loss of permafrost impact the region's biodiversity?
- What are the implications of this change for subsistence practices and Alaska Native ways of life?
- What role can local populations have in the mitigation and prevention of global warming?
