About Us

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We are the students at the Innoko River High School, living in the last village on the Innoko River in the western Interior of Alaska.

Jamie Hamilton

Interests: Hunting, fishing and working on engines.

Hobbies: Basketball, snowboarding, snowmachining, and dirtbiking.

Favorite Native food: Willow grouse.

Reaction to being told we were going to SOUTH AFRICA:
At first I was speechless, and to this day I can not believe we were chosen to go.

Jamie

Jamie
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Our GLOBE Research

We have been a GLOBE school since 1998. Different classes of students have set up different study sites over the years but in 2005 our local research on our environment took on a different twist when lightening struck behind our village and burned a 15-acre area of land dangerously close to local homes.

The Alaska State Forestry Department hired the Shageluk Emergency Fire Fighting crew and the EFF crew from Nikolai to assist in putting out the fire. The fire lasted just two weeks but has provided us with long-term data on regrowth in a Boreal forest that has made us think about climate change and how it effects our cultural traditions and survival as the Deg Hitan people!

Friday, June 6, 2008

June 6 Joy: My First Blog

I got up early, washed some clothes, boxed up some old clothes for Salvation Army and started working on today's plans. I don't think we'll be able to do the Soil Infiltration activity today because it's raining and Today we successfully completed the Soil Texture protocol on the Burn site soil samples we brought down with us. Jamie read the tedious flow chart while Everett and Jack did the spraying, pinching and rolling of each horizon sample to determine if the soil in the horizon was clay, silt, loam, sand or the many combinations of such soils! It went very well, the boys work well together as a team.

We also discussed our schedule from Shageluk to Anchorage and the fact that we will have about 8-9 hours of "play" time in Anchorage. For sure we'll have to hit the banks, get an iPod for Jack and Everett wants to go bowling. We also talked about meeting up at dinner time with relatives living in Anchorage. Stay tuned!

Tomorrow's plans: (Yes, we have this class on Saturday's, too!) Possibly do the Soil Infiltration protocol, check South African news again, possibly start the 30-year burn site set-up.

Everett Semone June 6: My first blog

Today I learned about how to find the textures on soil samples and what we're going to do in Anchorage because we're going to be there for a long time.

Jack June 6 :My First Blog

This morning I was late. I came into the school and got a cup of coffee, went into the classroom and Joy said, "You're late." And I said, " I know what are we learning today." We did the soil texture protocol on the burn site soil, after that we chatted about what we are going to do in Anchorage for ten hours.

Jamie, June 6/My First Blog

Today I got up and got to the school a little early. Afterwards I drank two cans of Red Bull, a mug of very strong coffee, and a bottle of water. At about nine thirty the whole class started working on soil texture protocol. In the end we found time to talk about what we will do in Anchorage during our ten hour layover, and where we will travel from there.