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!

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Shageluk Fire August 2005

The World of Salvador Dali and Picasso

My world has become a combination of a Salvador Dali and Picasso paintings and, as Caroline Brown puts it, "My brain is in at least three different places." That best describes things as they have evolved since being told we were going to Africa! We have 10 more days to go and there is still so much to do!

Today was a lot of fun for me to watch the boys team up to work on the soil fertility protocols using the Hach chem-lab kits, goggles, lab aprons and all. We have been talking at great length about our research presentation and who is going to say what. I've been pulling out our old pictures and data from when our research first began on the burn study site and have been comparing it over the years. We'll include that in our slide show.

Rudy has been busy hauling our winter wood by barge home from the woods. He's keeping me on my toes asking me if I've got the money-exchange thing taken care of, questions about security and ID's, and coming up with more ideas on what we can do. I know nothing of world travel and he's been to Europe so knows what to watch out for. Next week he and the boys will prepare the cultural presentation which is going to be separate from the scientific presentation part. Around here, though, our life dictates that we can't have one without the other. Cultural traditions and lifestyle here are tied directly with the land and our expressions of our place in the world.

Anyway, back to figuring out more about this blog and the presentation!

Jack John/6-10-08

Today I came in on time the first one, made coffee went into the class Joy said, "Go on the computer look up the news," so I went on looked up some news. Then I went in the class after I was done on the computer to watch a video about the fire of 2005 that happened in Shageluk. Then we did the GLOBE soil fertility protocol for nitrates, phosphorus and potassium.

Jamie/6-10-08

Today I got up a little bit late, but I made it to school. This morning we watched the original slide show from the original fire in 2005, then we started the beginning of our slide show. After the slide show we tested soil fertility protocol for nitrates, phosphorus, and potassium. We figured out that horizon two has phosphorus but no potassium or nitrates. Now we are eating and getting ready to go. I am also very thankful that GLOBE gave us this once in a lifetime opportunity.

Everett Semone June 10

Today I came in late and went to get a cup of coffee in the kitchen. After I got back and Joy put on a slide show that she made with her students in 2005 and another one that we made for the GLOBE presentation. After that we had to do soil fertility protocol for nitrates, phosphorus, and potassium and we only did horizon two and it only showed that it had phosphorus in it. I am kind of excited to go to South Africa.