Scientists estimate that, within a decade, the Inupiaq village of Shishmaref, located on the barrier island of Sarichef off the coast of Alaska, will be swallowed by rising seas. In October 2001, a severe fall storm caused the shoreline near the village to move inland by 125 feet. The Inupiaq people have lived here for […]
Author Archives: Robert W. Corell
Robert W. Corell is a Principal for the Global Environment & Technology Foundation and University Professor II at both the University of the Arctic’s Institute for Circumpolar Reindeer Husbandry with Saami University College and at the University of Tromso (Norway). Previously, he chaired the president’s National Science and Technology Council committee that oversees the U.S. Global Change Research Program.