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
ALISON Shadow data

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!

Saturday, June 7, 2008

Jack 6-7-08

I came in late it was good to sleep in on a Saturday. We read an article about forest fires and then went to do green up. Before that we took out a tarp out of under the truck.

Jamie/6-7-08

Today I woke up, came to school and we started to discuss the carbon cycle. We also discussed the permafrost in the control site and the permafrost in the burn site. Then we left in the truck to go up and record bud burst. Before we made to the site Joy ran over a tarp filled with decaying moose fur, and the other two boys and myself had to cut it out of the bottom of the truck. Then we came back and entered our data.

Everett Semone June 7

Today I came to the school at 11:00 o'clock and Joy told me that class start at 1:00 o'clock. I went home and watched t.v until 1:00 o'clock. We talked about the carbon cycle because of all the fires in Alaska and went up to the control and burn site. We came back down to the school and logged in our data.We ate ice cream while we were logging in our data.

Control and Burn Soil Pits