Webinar | Protect the Arctic

This webinar focuses on the importance of the Arctic Refuge & Alaskan ecosystems!

Speakers:
Bernadette Demientieff
Executive Director, Gwich'in Steering Committee
Bernadette Demientieff the Executive Director of Gwich’in Steering Committee is Gwichyaa Zhee Gwich’in she was raised in Fort Yukon and spent her summers in Venetie. Bernadette is the mother of 5 children and grandmother of 5 beautiful grandchildren. She takes this position very serious and it has transformed her life to better serve her people. Bernadette stands strong to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge-Coastal Plain, the Porcupine Caribou Herd and the Gwich’in way of life.

Colleen Iverson
Ecosystem Ecologist
Dr. Colleen Iversen is an ecosystem ecologist who uses a variety of field and laboratory techniques to understand and predict how ecosystems are shaped by environmental change. Her work takes her from upland forests to soggy peatlands to thawing arctic tundra, chasing a better understanding of the secret lives of roots hidden beneath the soil surface. She works at a small scale to answer a global question: how will ecosystems respond to the climate of the future? Iversen is a Senior Staff Scientist in the Environmental Sciences Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where she is the leader of the Plant-Soil Interactions group.