Terry Chapin is a professor of ecology with the Institute of Arctic Biology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and in 2004 he became the first Alaskan named as a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He has a Ph.D. in biological sciences from Stanford University. His research focuses on the resilience of regional systems in the face of changes in climate, economics, and culture. His work has been widely published; most recently, he was one of the authors of Alaska’s Changing Boreal Forest, to be published by Oxford University Press.

Terrence Cole is a professor of history and director of the Office of Public History at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. He holds a Ph.D. in American history from the University of Washington. His research and writing on the history of Alaska includes an analysis of the state’s economic history, a study of the first 75 years of the University of Alaska, and a book on Fairbanks’ early days. He has several times been recognized for excellence in teaching.

Letitia Fickel is an associate professor of secondary education with the College of Education at the University of Alaska Anchorage, teaching secondary social studies methods and other courses. She attended the University of Louisville, earning an Ed.D. in educational supervision in teaching and learning. She has worked with UAA’s Alaska Partnership for Teacher Enhancement (APTE) program, to improve training of Alaska teachers, especially to teach in rural schools.

Brad Griffith is with the U.S. Geological Survey, assigned to the Alaska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit at the Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks. He is also an associate professor of wildlife ecology. He holds a Ph.D. in forestry, wildlife, and range sciences from the University of Idaho. Much of his recent research examines the effects of climate change on caribou and other wildlife.

Lee Huskey is a professor of economics with the College of Business and Public Policy at the University of Alaska Anchorage. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from Washington University in St. Louis. His research interests include Alaska’s rural economy and frontier economies. He teaches a wide range of UAA economics courses and also helped develop a program to train high-school teachers to teach economics.

Terry Johnson is an agent with the University of Alaska’s Sea Grant Advisory Program in Homer and an advisor to the Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission. He holds a master’s degree in marine affairs from the University of Washington and has long studied and taken part in Alaska’s fisheries and in ecotourism. His work includes books about commercial fishing in Alaska and the Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands region.

Judith Kleinfeld directs the Northern Studies Program at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and is also a professor of psychology. She holds an Ed.D. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is nationally recognized for her research on Alaska education issues—especially Alaska Native education—as well as her studies of children and adolescents with fetal alcohol syndrome. Her work has been widely published in books, journal articles, and newspaper columns.

Gary Kofinas is an assistant professor of resource policy and management at the Institute of Arctic Biology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and an adjunct professor at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He has a Ph.D. in interdisciplinary studies in resource management. He has a special interest in the effects of climate change on people and wildlife in the Arctic—and in how communities can deal with change.

Claudia Lampman is an associate professor of psychology with UAA’s Department of Psychology. She holds a Ph.D. in applied social psychology from Loyola University in Chicago and teaches applied social psychology and a wide range of other psychology courses at the graduate and undergraduate level. Her research interests include the well-being of children and adolescents, especially their mental health.

Stephen Langdon is a professor of anthropology in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Alaska Anchorage. He holds a doctorate in anthropology from Stanford University. He has for decades studied public policy issues related to Alaska Natives; his special interest is pre-contact, historic, and contemporary fisheries of the Tlingit and Haida people of southeast Alaska. His most recent book is TheNative People of Alaska, published by Greatland Graphics.

Amy Lovecraft is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and also a research fellow with the Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Program (IDGEC). She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. Her research interests are in political ecology, including study of the connections between science and politics in environmental policymaking.

Gerald McBeath is a professor of political science at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley. For 25 years he has studied Alaska politics and government; his specific research interests include the state and local politics of Alaska, federalism, Native politics, and politics of circumpolar northern states. He has written several books and many articles on those subjects and is currently working with other researchers on a study of the political economy of oil in Alaska.

Paul Ongtooguk is an assistant professor of secondary education with the College of Education at the University of Alaska Anchorage. He holds an M.A. in curriculum and teacher education from Michigan State University. He is a veteran Alaska Native educator whose research focuses on making Alaska Native history and culture a part of standard school curriculum in Alaska and on improving teacher preparation, especially for those who plan to teach in rural schools.