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!

Thursday, June 12, 2008

Jack/6-12-08

Today I came in 30-minutes late, sat down in the classroom and we got started right way on reading the GLE program agenda. Then we did the power point presentation format for our research.

Everett Semone June 12

Today I came in 15 minutes late and only Jamie was here. We were waiting for Jack and while we were waiting we watched our slide show and review what were going to say during the conference in Cape Town. I had to say out loud in front of the class what I was going to say on the slide show. We divided up the slide show into three pieces so we all can talk about the slide show. I am talking about what grows after a fire and forest succession on our burn site.

Jamie/6-12-08

Today we reviewed our slide show. I researched the carbon cycle, albedo, forest succession, and the effects global warming has on our traditional way of life. I learned that it is important for vegetation to grow back after a burn, because burned or charred ground soaks in the suns UV rays and vegetation reflects most of it. All of that helps reduce carbons in the atmosphere and it also helps the permafrost stay frozen.