Journal
REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
Volume 18, Issue 2, Pages 547-559Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-017-1220-7
Keywords
Community-based observing; Community-based observing networks; Local place-based knowledge; Perception; Environmental change; Instrumented data
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Funding
- National Science Foundation [0856774, 0856305, 1355238, 1642847]
- Arctic Alaska Observatory and Knowledge Hub through Community Service
- Alaska EPSCoR NSF [OIA-1208927]
- state of Alaska
- Office of Integrative Activities
- Office Of The Director [1208927] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Many papers have addressed the differing approaches to observation by scientists collecting instrumented data and by community or local knowledge-based observations. Integrating these ways of knowing is difficult because they operate at different scales and have different goals. It would benefit both scientists and communities to integrate community-based observations and instrumented data, despite obstacles, because it would expand scales of observation and because gauged data in the Arctic are sparse. This requires development of a protocol to integrate these knowledge systems to maximize reliability and validity. We used survey data from a community-based observing network in the Bering Sea and examined the correspondence of community-based observations with instrument-derived data for air temperature, sea ice break-up and freeze-up, and vegetation changes. Results highlight that there is a high correspondence between community-based observations for sea ice and vegetation change and instrumented data, but there is an inherent conflict in scales of observation for air temperature data. This helps to elucidate the benefits of community-based observing as a process for understanding and responding to change in the Arctic.
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