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The Speakers Bureau is a directory of arctic researchers and experts that are available to visit organizations, communities or schools to give presentations. The directory contains names, addresses, science specialties, and presentation experience.
We encourage organizations and communities applying to the Arctic Visiting Speakers Series to use the Speakers Bureau to select a visiting speaker. If a particular subject or speaker is not listed, please contact Judy Fahnestock at avs [at] arcus [dot] org, for suggested speakers.
Henry Huntington
About:
It is important to communicate the results and appeal of our scientific work to a broad audience.
Dr. Huntington completed his Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge, UK, in 1991. Subsequently he worked for the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission, the North Slope Borough (Alaska), and Inuit Circumpolar Conference, prior to becoming an independent researcher and consultant in 1997. Dr. Hungtington has produced several scientific and plain-language publications on various aspects of the Arctic. He has conducted research around the Arctic on traditional knowledge, contaminants, climate, ecology, and human dimensions. He is Past Board President of ARCUS and a member of the Polar Research Board, National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Huntington's research interests include the Arctic environment, traditional knowledge, arctic peoples, human dimensions of the Arctic.
Dr. Huntington has made presentations for audiences at schools, mixed scientific audiences, and policy fora. He would be glad to speak to academic audiences, graduate students, the general public and schools.
Representative lecture titles might include:
- Oceans, watersheds, and people: Facts, myths, and realities.
- Humans and the Arctic environment: changing roles, changing research.
- Traditional ecological knowledge, satellites, and migratory species: complementary approaches to ecological understanding.
- Peoples of the Arctic: similarities and differences.
Dr. Huntington participated in the 2002 Arctic Visiting Speaker Series and was a keynote speaker at the North American Environmental Education Association conference, held in Anchorage, Alaska, 2003.
Orville Huntington
About:
Orville Huntington is presently the Chair of the Interior Athabascan Tribal College. He also currently is serving as the Interior Villages Representative on the Alaska Federation of Natives Board for the 43 villages in the Doyon area, and makes his home in the Athabascan community of Huslia, a village in the Yukon-Koyukuk region of Alaska.
Orville works exclusively with professors, non-profit organizations, and colleges regarding the issue of "Climate Change Impacts and the Sustainability of Rural Communities." He also uses and continues to develop the Native American Traditional Ecological Knowledge database.
His research interests are the direct and indirect impacts of subsistence use on fish, animals, and plants of northern ecosystems; the evaluation of currently policy and regulations and their affects on the subsistence methods and means of harvesting fish, wildlife, and plants. Orville is also committed to education and outreach projects that help non-Alaskans understand the culture and subsistence lifestyle of his people.
Orville has extensive experience in presenting to the public. He has given keynotes at various ARCUS Arctic Forums and has spoken on panels at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. In 2000, he participated in the Arctic Visiting Speakers' program as a presenter at the Marine Science Institute at Port Aransas, Texas. He enjoys the Arctic Visiting Speakers' program because it allows him to, "share and add to what little knowledge is out there on matching Native American Traditional Knowledge with contemporary western science."
He is interested in presenting to school audiences (K-12), academic audiences, graduate seminars, and the general public. Orville is not available during mid-June through mid-July or September due to subsistence activities.