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GARY PETER KOFINAS
Mailing address:
PO Box 1210
Wilson, Wyoming 83014
e-mail: [email protected]
Mobile: 307.690.5103 (best #)
UAF office: 907.474.7078
APPOINTMENTS:
Current:
Professor of Resource Policy and Management with joint appointments in the
Department of Natural Resources and Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska
Fairbanks. (Professor 2012-present; Associate Professor 2006-2012; Assistant Professor
2002-2006)
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Research areas: Resilience of northern rural communities as social-ecological systems;
community-based resource stewardship, adaptive co-management institutions; local
knowledge in ecological monitoring and assessment; social networks of subsistencecash economies; the science and practice of transdisciplinary research and education.
Resilience and Adaptation Program (RAP) – UAF graduate program in sustainability
science; Steering Committee Chair (2010 to 2012); Director of RAP (2007 to 2010)/
IGERT PI (2007 to present). RAP Coordinator (2002-2007) RAP is an NSF Integrative
Graduate Education and Traineeship (IGERT). www.rap.uaf.edu
Courses taught: Local-to-Global Sustainability, Integrated Assessment & Adaptive
Management, Resilience Graduate Seminar, and Resilience Internship. All were graduate
courses cross listed with Bio, Anthro, Econ, and NRM.
Founder and President – Teewinot Institute (formerly Institute for Global Awareness), Wilson,
Wyoming (1987 to present): A small 501(c)(3) non-profit organization started in 1988 that has
offered courses and conducted research in areas of sustainability. Projects have included five
summers of field-based controversial issues education courses, design of a community-based
ecosystem monitoring program in the Arctic Borderlands Region, development of a program
promoting health and appropriate technologies in villages of Ladakh, India, and delivery of a
lecture series on northern resource management issues across the United States.
Affiliate Faculty: Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of Alaska
Anchorage. (2005-present)
Past:
Senior Fellow, Institute of Arctic Studies, Dartmouth College. (2001-2002); ("Research
Fellow" from October, 1997-August 2001).
Research Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Institute of Social and Economic
Research, University of Alaska Anchorage. (March, 2000-August 2002).
Research Associate II - Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks
(February, 1996 -2001).
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Director of Travel-Study and School-Year Programs - Interlocken Center for
Experiential Learning, Hillsboro, New Hampshire. (1978-1987)
Affiliate Instructor - School of Agriculture and Land Resources Management,
University of Alaska Fairbanks, Alaska (UAF Summer Sessions, 1989, 1990, 1991). I
instructed undergraduate field-based “Summer Sessions” courses: The Arctic Wildlife
Refuge - oil, wilderness and subsistence -- a six-week study of North Slope oil
development issues; The South Denali Controversy -- a three-week study examining
issues related to proposed construction of tourist facilities on the south side of Denali
National Park and Monument.
Adjunct Faculty - Antioch University New England Graduate School - Environmental
Studies Department, Keene, New Hampshire: Spring, 1993; Summer 1992. Alaska
Studies and Environmental Leadership courses with Susan J. Herman.
Instructor/Adjunct Faculty (1974 to 1987) I worked with several institutions in a variety
of learning environments. Courses were four- to six-week interdisciplinary field studies
offered at the high school and undergraduate levels. Course titles: Natural History of
American Southwest; People and Land of Southern Appalachia; Natural History of Crete
- Island of Crete; Everglades Ecology ; Way Down Upon the Suwannee River-A Natural
History; New England Mountain and Seas Expedition; Teton Natural History and
Mountaineering; Alaska Natural History, Mountaineering, and Sea Kayaking Expedition.
Program Director - New Hampshire Environmental Education Center, Hillsboro, NH
(1980-81): A residential environmental center for elementary school students offered
during the autumn and spring seasons. I was responsible for overall curriculum
development, program implementation, and staff hiring and training.
EDUCATION:
Ph.D. (Interdisciplinary Studies in Resource Management Science), University of
British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada (1998). Dissertation: The Cost of Power
Sharing: Community Involvement in Canadian Co-Management of Porcupine Caribou
M.S.T. (Environmental Studies), Antioch/New England Graduate School, Keene, NH.
(1978)
B.A. (Philosophy), University of North Carolina Greensboro; graduate coursework in
field botany. Greensboro, NC (1975)
AWARDS
2011 recipient of the Secretary of the Interior’s Partnerships in Conservation Award, for
serving as Principal Investigator of the project, “The Study of Sharing Networks to Assess the
Vulnerabilities of Local Communities to Oil and Gas Development Impacts in Arctic Alaska”.
2008 recipient of Ecological Society of America Sustainability Award, for co-authorship of the
paper “Policy strategies to address sustainability of Alaskan boreal forests in response to a
directionally changing climate”, 2006, Chapin et al.
Honorary Member, Ralph York Society (2012- present)
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PUBLICATIONS / Books, edited volumes, major reports
Kofinas, G., S BurnSilver, J. Magdanz, R. Stotts, and M. Okada, (In Press), Subsistence
Sharing Networks and Cooperation: Kaktovik, Wainwright, and Venetie Alaska. BOEM
Project Report Number 2015-023DOI. Published by University of Alaska Fairbanks. (pp
500)
Kofinas, Gary, Chapin III, F.S,, A Lovecraft, Guest Editors. (In Press), Pathways to Resilience in a
Rapidly Changing Alaska. Special issue of Ecology and Society.
Kofinas, Gary, Guest Editor. (In press). Heterogeneity and Resilience of Human-Rangifer
Systems. Special issue of Ecology and Society.
http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/issues/view.php?sf=58
Chapin III, F. S., G. P. Kofinas, and C. Folke, editors. 2009. Principles of Ecosystem
Stewardship: Resilience-Based Natural Resource Management in a Changing World.
Springer-Verlag, New York. ISBN: 978-0-387-73032-5
http://www.springer.com/environment/environmental+management/book/978-0-38773032-5
Kofinas, Gary and Bruce Forbes, guest co-editors. 1998. The Human Role in Reindeer/Caribou
Systems. Polar Research Volume 19, number 1.
PUBLICATIONS / Peer reviewed articles and book chapters
BurnSilver, S. B., J. Magdanz, R. Stotts and G. Kofinas (Forthcoming March
2016). Transitional Arctic Economies are Not. American Anthropologist.
BurnSilver, S.B., R. Boone, G. Kofinas, and T. Brinkman (Forthcoming Spring 2016).
Tradeoffs in the mixed economies of village Alaska: Hunting, working and sharing in
the context of change. M. Hegmon, ed. In: The Give and Take of Sustainability:
Archaeological and Anthropological Perspectives. New Directions in Sustainability and
Society Series. Cambridge University Press.
Berman, M., Kofinas, G., and Burnsilver, S. (In press). Measuring Community Adaptive
and Transformative Capacity in the Arctic Context, in Arctic Sustainabilities, Gail
Fondahl and Gary Wilson (eds.), Heidelberg: Springer.
Knapp, C. N., F. S. Chapin III, G. P. Kofinas, N. Fresco, C. Carothers and A. Craver 2014.
Parks, people, and change: the importance of multistakeholder engagement in
adaptation planning for conserved areas. Ecology and Society 19(4): 16.
http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-06906-190416
Blair, B., A. L. Lovecraft, and G. P. Kofinas. 2014. Meeting institutional criteria for social
resilience: a nested risk system model. Ecology and Society 19(4): 36.
http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-06944-190436
Bruce C. Forbes and Gary Kofinas, with contributing authors H. Beach, C. Brattland, P.
Kankaanpää, C. Keskitalo, M. Lennert, C. L. Meek, V. K. Metcalf, M. D. Robards, O.R.
Young, (2015) Chapter 7 - Resource Governance, in Arctic Human Development Report
II, editors G Fondal and and J Nymand Larsen. Pages 253-289.
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Bali, A., and G. P. Kofinas. 2014. Voices of the Caribou People: a participatory
videography method to document and share local knowledge from the North
American human-rangifer systems. Ecology and Society 19(2): 16.
http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-06327-190216
Padilla, E. and G. P. Kofinas (2014). Letting the leaders pass: Barriers to using
traditional ecological knowledge in comanagement as the basis of formal hunting
regulations. Ecology and Society 19(2). http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-05999-190207
Reynolds, M. K. and K. J. A. Donald A Walker, Jerry Brown, Kay R Everett, Mikhail
Kanevskiy, Gary P. Kofinas, Vladimir E. Romanovsky, Yuri Sur, Patrick Webber (2014).
Cumulative geoecological effects of 62 years of infrastructure and climate change in
ice-rich permafrost landscapes, Prudhoe Bay Oilfield, Alaska. Global Change Biology
20: 1211-1224.
Kofinas, Gary, Douglas Clark, Grete K. Hovelsrud, Lillian Alessa, Helene Amundsen,
Matthew Berman, Fikret Berkes, F. Stuart Chapin III, Bruce Forbes, James Ford, Craig
Gerlach, and Julia Olsen. 2013. Chapter 4: Adaptive and Transformative Capacity, in
Arctic Resilience interim Report to the Arctic Council. pages 71-91.
Hansen, Winslow D., Todd J. Brinkman, Mathew W. Leonawicz, F Stuart Chanin, III, Gary
P. Kofinas. 2013. Changing Daily Wind Speeds on Alaska’s North Slope: Implications
for Rural Hunting Opportunities. Arctic. Vol. 66, No 4. P. 448 – 458
Archana Bali, Vladimir A. Alexeev, Robert G. White, Don E. Russell, A. David McGuire,
Gary P. Kofinas. 2013. Long-term patterns of abiotic drivers of mosquito activity within
summer ranges of Northern Alaska caribou herds (1979–2009). Rangifer 33, special
issue no. 21: 173-176.
Shanley, Colin, Gary Kofinas, and Sanjay Payre. 2013. Balancing the conservation of
wildlife habitat with subsistence hunting access: A geospatial-scenario planning
framework. Landscape and Urban Planning 115 (2013) 10– 17.
Russell, Don E., Gary Kofinas, Anne Gunn, Robert G. White, Susan Kutz. 2013.
CircumArctic Rangifer monitoring and assessment (CARMA) network – origins, goals,
accomplishments and future, Rangifer 33, No. 21, 2013, 141-144.
Gunn, Anne, Don E. Russell, Colin J. Daniel, Robert G. White & Gary Kofinas. 2013.
CARMA’s approach for the collaborative and inter-disciplinary assessment of
cumulative effects. Rangifer, 33, Special Issue No. 21.
Nicolson, C., M. Berman, C. Thor West, G. P. Kofinas, B. Griffith, D. Russell, and D.
Dugan. 2013. Seasonal climate variation and caribou availability: modeling sequential
movement using satellite-relocation data. Ecology and Society 18(2): 1.
http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-05376-180201
Kofinas, Gary P., Chapin III, F. Stuart, BurnSilver, Shauna, Schmidt, Jennifer I., Fresco,
Nancy L., Kielland, Knut, Martin, Stephanie, Springsteen, Anna, and Rupp, T. Scott
(2010). Resilience of Athabascan subsistence systems to interior Alaska’s changing
climate. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 40:1347-1359
Streever, B, R. Suydam, J.F. Payne, R. Shuchman, R.P. Angliss, G. Balogh, J. Brown, J.
Grunblatt, S. Guyer, D.L. Kane, J.J. Kelley, G. Kofinas, D.R. Lassuy, W. Loya, P. Martin, S.E.
Moore, W.S. Pegau, C. Rea, D.J. Reed, T. Sformo, M. Sturm, J.J. Taylor, T. Viavant, D.
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Williams and D. Yokel, Environmental Change and Potential Impacts: Applied Research
Priorities for Alaska’s North Slope, Info North - Arctic, VOL. 64, NO. 3 (SEPTEMBER
2011). 390-397.
Collins, Scott L, Stephen R Carpenter, Scott M Swinton, Daniel E Orenstein, Daniel L
Childers, Ted L Gragson, Nancy B Grimm, J Morgan Grove, Sharon L Harlan, Jason P
Kaye, Alan K Knapp, Gary P Kofinas, John J Magnuson, William H McDowell, John M
Melack, Laura A Ogden, G Philip Robertson, Melinda D Smith, and Ali C Whitmer, An
integrated conceptual framework for long-term social–ecological research. 2010.
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment; doi:10.1890/100068
Chapin III, F. Stuart , McGuire, A. David , Ruess, Roger W. , Hollingsworth, Teresa N. (a),
Mack, Michelle, C. (r), Johnstone, Jill F. (r), Kasischke, E.S., Euskirchen, Eugenie S. (r),
Jones, Jeremy B. , Jorgenson, M.T., Kielland, Knut , Kofinas, Gary P. , Turetsky, Merritt R.
(r), Yarie, J., Lloyd, A.H., and Taylor, D. Lee. 2010. Resilience of Alaska’s boreal forest to
climatic change. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 40:1360-1370
Chapin, F.S., III, S.R. Carpenter, G.P. Kofinas. C. Folke, N. Abel, W.C. Clark, P. Olsson, D.M.
Stafford Smith, B. Walker, O.R. Young, F. Berkes, R. Biggs, J.M. Grove, R.L. Naylor, E.
Pinkerton, W. Steffen, and F.J. Swanson. 2009. Ecosystem Stewardship: Sustainability
Strategies for a Rapidly Changing Planet. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 25(4):241249.
Dayo, D. and G. P. Kofinas. 2010. Institutional innovation in less than ideal conditions:
Management of commons by an Alaska Native village corporation. International Journal
of the Commons. Vol 4, No 1.
http://www.thecommonsjournal.org/index.php/ijc/article/view/146/101
Gunn, A., D. Russell, R. White, and G. P. Kofinas. 2009. Facing a Future of Change: Wild
Migratory Caribou and Reindeer. Arctic. Volume. 62, Number. 3 (September 2009) P. iii–
vi.
Kofinas, G. P., and F. Stuart Chapin III. 2009. Sustaining Livelihoods and Human WellBeing during Social-Ecological Change in I. F. Stuart Chapin, G. P. Kofinas, and C. Folke,
editors. Principles of Ecosystem Stewardship: Resilience-Based Natural Resource
Management in a Changing World. Springer-Verlag, New York. Pages 55-75.
Kofinas, G. P. 2009. Adaptive Co-management in Social-Ecological Governance in I.
Chapin, F. Stuart, G. Kofinas, and C. Folke, editors. Principles of Ecosystem Stewardship:
Resilience-Based Natural Resource Management in a Changing World. Springer-Verlag,
New York. Pages 77-102.
Chapin III, F. S., G. Kofinas, and C. Folke. 2009. A Framework for Understanding Change
in Chapin, F. Stuart; Gary Kofinas; Carl Folke , editors. Principles of Ecosystem
Stewardship: Resilience-Based Natural Resource Management in a Changing World.
Springer-Verlag, New York. Pages 3-28.
Fikret Berkes, Gary P. Kofinas, and F. Stuart Chapin III. 2009. Conservation, Community,
and Livelihoods: Sustaining, Renewing and Adapting Cultural Connections to Land in .
Chapin F. Stuart, G. Kofinas, and C. Folke, editors. Principles of Ecosystem Stewardship:
Resilience-Based Natural Resource Management in a Changing World. Springer-Verlag,
New York. Pages 129-147.
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Trainor S.F., A. Godduhn, L.K. Duffy, F.S. Chapin III, D.C. Natcher, G. Kofinas, H.P.
Huntington. 2009. Environmental Injustice in the Canadian Far North: Persistent
Organic Pollutants and Arctic Climate Impacts in Concepts of Environmental Justice in
Canada, U.B.C. Press. J. Agyeman, R. Haluza-Delay, P. Cole and P. O'Riley, editors. Pages
144-162.
Brinkman, T. J., F.S.. Chapin III, G. Kofinas, and D. K. Person. 2009. Linking hunter
knowledge with forest change to understand changing deer harvest opportunities in
intensively logged landscapes. Ecology and Society 14(1): 36. [online] URL:
http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol14/iss1/art36/
Brinkman, T. J., G. P. Kofinas, F.S. Chapin III, and D.K. Person. 2007. Influence of Hunter
Adaptability on Resilience of Subsistence Hunting Systems. Ecological Anthropology
Vol 11: 58-63. .
Meek CL, A. L. Lovecraft, M. D. Robards, G. P. Kofinas. 2008. Building resilience through
interlocal relations: Case studies of polar bear and walrus management in the Bering
Strait. Marine Policy, Volume 32, Issue 6, November 2008, Pages 1080-1089
doi:10.1016/j.marpol.2008.03.003
Miller, T. R., T. D. Baird, C. M. Littlefield, G. Kofinas, F. Chapin, III, and C. L. Redman.
2008. Epistemological pluralism: reorganizing interdisciplinary research. Ecology and
Society 13(2): 46. [online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol13/iss2/art46/
Kofinas, G., Susan J Herman, Chanda Meek. 2007. Novel Problems Require Novel
Solutions: Innovation as an outcome of adaptive co-management in F. Berkes, Nancy
Doubleday, Derek Armitage, editors. Adaptive Co-Management: Collaboration, Learning,
and Multi-Level Governance. UBC Press, Vancouver. Pages 249-467.
Trainor, Sarah F., F. Stuart Chapin III, Henry P.Huntington, David C.Natcher, and Gary
Kofinas. 2007. Arctic Climate Impacts: Environmental Injustice in Canada and the
United States, Local Environment, 12:6, 627 - 643 To link to this article: DOI:
10.1080/13549830701657414 URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13549830701657414
Chapin F.S. III, A.L. Lovecraft, E.S. Zavaleta, J. Nelson, M.D. Robards, G.P. Kofinas, SF
Trainor, G Peterson, HP Huntington, RL Naylor. 2006. Policy strategies to address
sustainability of Alaskan boreal forests in response to a directionally changing climate.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences doi:10.1073/pnas.0606955103.
Chapin, F.S., III, M.D. Robards, H.P. Huntington, J.F. Johnstone, S.F. Trainor, G.P Kofinas
R.W. Ruess, N. Fresco, D.C. Natcher, and R.L. Naylor. 2006. Directional changes in
ecological communities and social-ecological systems: A framework for prediction
based on Alaskan examples. American Naturalist. 168:S36-S49.
Kofinas, Gary. 2005. Hunters and Researchers at the Co-management Interface: Emergent
Dilemmas and the Problem of Legitimacy in Anthropologica, Vol. 47 No 2: 179-196, Special
Issue: Co-Management and Indigenous Communities.
Philippa McNeil, Don Russell, Brad Griffith, Anne Gunn, Gary P Kofinas (2005) Where the wild
things are: Seasonal Variation in Caribou Distribution in Relation to Climate Change in
Rangifer, Special Issue No 16. Pp. 51-63
Klein, David R (lead), Leonid M. Baskin, Lyudmila S. Bogoslovskaya, Kjell Danell, Anne Gunn,
David B. Irons, Gary P. Kofinas, Kit M. Kovacs, Margarita Magomedova, Rosa H. Meehan, Don E.
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Russell, Patrick Valkenburg, (2005) Chapter 12: Hunting, Herding, Fishing and Gathering:
Indigenous Peoples and Renewable Resource Use in the Arctic, ACIA Arctic Climate Change
Assessment, Cambridge University Press. Pages 649-690.
Nuttall, Mark, Fikret Berkes, Bruce Forbes, Gary Kofinas, Tatiana Vlassova, George
Wenzel. 2005. Hunting, Herding, Fishing, and Gathering: Indigenous Peoples and
Renewable Resource Use in the Arctic, Chapter 10: Arctic Climate Change Assessment;
pages. 650-687.
Chapin, F.S., III, M. Berman, T.V. Callaghan, P. Convey, A.-S. Crepin, K. Danell, H.
Ducklow, B. Forbes, G. Kofinas, A.D. McGuire, M. Nuttall, R. Virginia, O. Young, and S.
Zimov. 2005. Polar Systems. Pages 717-743 In H. Hassan, R. Scholes, and N. Ash, editors.
Ecosystems and Human Well-Being: Current State and Trends. Island Press, Washington,
ISBN 1-55963-227-5.
Larry Hinzman, Neil Bettez, F. Stuart Chapin, Mark Dyurgerov, Chris Fastie, Brad Griffith, Robert
D. Hollister, Allen Hope, Henry P. Huntington, Anne Jensen, Douglas Kane, David R. Klein, Gary P.
Kofinas, Amanda Lynch, Andrea Lloyd, A. David McGuire, Frederick Nelson, Walter C. Oechel,
Thomas Osterkamp, Charles Racine, Vladimir Romanovsky, Doug Stow, Matthew Sturm, Craig E.
Tweedie, George Vourlitis, Marilyn Walker, Donald Walker, Patrick J. Webber, Jeff Welker, Kevin
Winker, Kenji Yoshikawa. (2005) Evidence and Implications of Recent Climate Change in
Terrestrial Regions of the Arctic, in Climate Change, Vol. 72 No 3: pages 251-298
Natcher, David, Sharman Haley, and Gary Kofinas, Walt Parker. Summer/Winter 2005 Effective
Local Institutions for Collective Action in Arctic Communities. Northern Notes in Northern
Review; pp 259-273. Also posted at
http://www.iser.uaa.alaska.edu/Home/ResearchAreas/EffectiveAction/default.htm
Berman, Matt, and Gary Kofinas (2004)Hunting for Models: Rational Choice and Grounded
Approaches to Analyzing Climate Effects on Subsistence Hunting in an Arctic Community
Ecological Economics Vol. 49: pages 31-46.
Berman, M., Nicolson, C., Kofinas, G., Tetlichi, J., and Martin, S. 2004. Adaptation and
Sustainability in a Small Arctic Community: Results of an Agent-Based Simulation
Model. Arctic Vol. 57 No 4: pages 401–414.
Kofinas, Gary and Don Russell. 2004.North America, in Family-Based Reindeer Herding and
Hunting Economies, and the Status and Management of Wild Reindeer/Caribou Populations, A
Report to the Sustainable Development Working Group of the Arctic Council, Birgitte Ulvevadet
and Konstantin Klokov (eds.) Centre for Saami Studies, University of Tromsø. pages 21-52.
Kruse, J.A., R.G. White, H.E Epstein, B. Archie, M.D. Berman, S.R. Braund, F.S. Chapin III, J. Charlie
Sr., C.J. Daniel, J. Eamer, N. Flanders, B. Griffith, S. Haley, L. Huskey, B. Joseph, D.R. Klein, G.P.
Kofinas, S.M. Martin, S.M. Murphy, W. Nebesky, C. Nicolson, D.E. Russell, J. Tetlichi, A. Tussing,
M.D. Walker, O.R. Young. 2004. Modeling Sustainability of Arctic Communities: An
Interdisciplinary Collaboration of Researchers and Local Knowledge Holders, Ecosystems,
Volume 7: pages 1-14
Kofinas, G., P. Lyver, D. Russell, R. White and A. Nelson. (2003) Towards a Protocol for
Community Monitoring of Caribou Body Condition. Rangifer. Special Issue Vol 14 No 7: pages
43-52.
Sturm, M., F.S. Chapin, III, M. E. Edwards, D.B. Griffith, H.P. Huntington, G.P. Kofinas,
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A.H. Lloyd, A.H. Lynch, B.J. Peterson, R.A. Pielke, Sr., J.P. Schimel, M.C. Serreze, and G.R.
Shaver. 2003. PACTS (Pan-Arctic Cycles, Transitions, and Sustainability): A Science Plan.
Land-Atmosphere-Ice Interactions Science Management Office, University of Alaska,
Fairbanks.
Kofinas, Gary with Old Crow, Aklavik, Fort McPherson, and Arctic Village. 2002. Community
Contributions to Ecological Monitoring: Knowledge Co-Production in the US-Canada Arctic
Borderlands in Frontiers in Polar Social Science - Indigenous Observations of Environmental
Change, editors I. Krupnik and D. Dyanna. ARCUS. Pages 54-92.
Nicolson, Craig R., Anthony M. Starfield, Gary P. Kofinas and John A. Kruse., (2002) Ten
Heuristics For Interdisciplinary Modeling Projects, Ecosystems, Vol 5. Pages 376-384.
G. Kofinas, C. Nicolson, M. Berman, and P. McNeil. Caribou Harvesting Strategies and
Sustainability Workshop Proceedings, held in Inuvik, Northwest Territories, April 1516, 2002. NSF Sustainability of Arctic Communities Project (Phase II). 2002. Posted at:
http://www.taiga.net/sustain/lib/sustain2/index.html
Kofinas, Gary, Gail Osherenko, David Klein, and Bruce Forbes, (2000) Research Planning in the
Face of Change: The Human Role in Reindeer/Caribou Systems, Polar Research, Volume 19, No.
1, pages 3-21.
Russell, D., G. Kofinas, and B. Griffith. 2000. Need and Opportunity for a North American
Caribou Knowledge Cooperative. Polar Research Volume 19, No 1, pages 117-130.
Eamer, Joan, Don Russell and Gary Kofinas, (1997) Impacts of Climate Change on Aboriginal
Lifestyles in British Columbia and Yukon in Responding to Global Climate Change in British
Columbia, Volume 1 of the Canada Country Study: Climate Impacts and Adaptation,
Environment Canada, Eric Taylor and Taylor, Bill (eds.) pp. 16.1-16.6. 1997.
Kofinas, Gary P. and Julian R. Griggs, Collaboration and the B.C. Round Table on the
Environment and the Economy: An Early-Stage Analysis of a 'Better Way' of Deciding, in
Environments Journal - Special Issue; Shared Decision Making and Natural Resources Planning:
Canadian Insights; Vol. 23. no. 2; pp. 17-40. University of Waterloo, Waterloo. 1996.
PULBICATIONS / Reports and other non-peer reviewed papers
Gary Kofinas and RAP Steering Committee. 2010. Strategic Plan for Institutionalizing UAF’s
Resilience and Adaptation Program. Pp 12.
Kofinas, Gary et al. 2012. Emerging Issue Summary: Social and Economic Dimensions.
North Slope Science Initiative, Science Technical Advisory Panel.
Kofinas, Gary, 2009, Indigenous Resilience and Social Ecological Systems, Workshop Report to
the Resilience Alliance. April, 12-17, 2009, HitchenBrook, Australia, pp. 30.
Gary Kofinas, Bruce Forbes, Fikret Berkes, Matthew Berman Hugh Beach, Terry Chapin,
Yvon Csonka, Kjell Danell, Tamara Semenova, Joe Tetlichi, Oran Young, Dawn Magness. A
Research Plan for the Study of Rapid Change, Resilience and Vulnerability in SocialEcological Systems of the Arctic, a report of the International Arctic Research Planning-2
(ICARP-2) program.
Gary Kofinas, Bruce Forbes, Fikret Berkes, Matthew Berman Hugh Beach, Terry Chapin, Yvon
Csonka, Kjell Danell, Tamara Semenova, Joe Tetlichi, , Oran Young, Dawn Magness. A Research
Plan for the Study of Rapid Change, Resilience and Vulnerability in Social-Ecological Systems of
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the Arctic. June 2005. CPR Digest of the International Association for the Study of Common
Property. 1-10.
Kofinas, Gary . February 2, 2003. Resilience of Human-Rangifer Systems, IHDP Update,
Newsletter of the International Human Dimensions Program on Global Environmental Change.
Elisabeth Dyck (ed.). International Human Dimensions Program, Bonn, Germany. Pages 6-7
Nelleman C. , I. Vistnes, B.C. Forbes, T. Forseman, E. Husby, G.P. Kofinas, B.P. Kaltenborn, J.
Rouaud, M. Magomedova, R. Bobiwash, C. Lambrechts, P.J. Schei, S. Tveitdal, O. Gron, and T.S.
Larens: GLOBIO - Global Method for Mapping Human Impacts on the Biosphere. 2001. UNEP
Report.
Kofinas, G, D. E. Russell, and R. White. 2002 Community Monitoring of Caribou Body
Condition: Technical Workshop Proceedings. Technical Report Series No. 390. Canadian Wildlife
Service, Ottawa, Ontario, 31 pp.
Russell, D., G. Kofinas, B. Griffith. Barren-Ground Caribou Calving Grounds Workshop: Report
of Proceedings, Technical Report Series 396. November, 2001 Canadian Wildlife Service,
Ottawa, Ontario, 39 pp.
Kofinas, Gary. 1993. Subsistence Hunting in a Global Economy; Northern Wildlife CoManagement Contributions to Community Economic Development, in Making Waves, Volume
4, Number 3.
FILMS
Bali, Archana and Gary Kofinas. 2008. Voices of Caribou People. 15 and 30 minute editions.
Best Alaskan Film Award 2009.
Naomi O’Neal and Gary Kofinas. 2014. Nenana Observations of Ecological Change.
SERVICE, SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES, and OTHER:
• Editorial Board, Ecology and Society
• Member, Board of Directors - Resilience Alliance http://www.resalliance.org.
• Lead Co-Author, Adaptive Governance Chapter, Arctic Human Development Report-II, a
project of the Arctic Council.
• Chapter Lead author and Steering Committee, Arctic Resilience Interim Report to the Arctic
Council.
• Member, Dept. of Interior, Outer Continental Shelf Science Committee. 2012-present.
(Appointed by US Secretary of Interior)
• Member, Science Technical Advisory Panel (STAP) of the North Slope Science Initiative
(NSSI). 2006-2012. (Appointed by US Secretary of Interior)
• Member, Advisory Board, Northern Rockies Conservation Cooperative, Jackson, Wyoming.
(2014-present)
• Research Leader of Maps and Locals (MALS) Project, cross-site LTER research.
• Co-Founder/Director and Steering Committee Member of CARMA - The Circum-Arctic
Rangifer Monitoring and Assessment Network, an International Polar Year initiative
involving all countries of the Arctic. (See www.rangifer.net/carma).
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• Chair – Rapid Change Resilience, and Vulnerability Working Group for the Second
International Arctic Science Planning Conference (ICARP-2). Lead author of the Working
Group’s research plan, “Rapid Change, Resilience, and Vulnerability of Social-Ecological
Systems of the Arctic” posted at http://www.icarp.dk/WGreports/WG10report.PDF.
• US Representative to international steering committee on the “Family-based Reindeer
Herding Economies, and Status and Management of Wild Caribou Herds Project” of the
Arctic Council. (2003-2005)
• Land-Atmosphere-Ice Interactions (LAII) Science Steering Committee member -- Arctic
Systems Science (ARCSS), an NSF program supporting global change research in the Arctic.
• Member, Board of Directors, Arctic Borderlands Ecological Knowledge Society (1996-2010)
• Planning committee member: The Seventh International Association for the Study of
Common Property Meeting (Vancouver, 1998); Fifth International Arctic Social Science
Congress (2004) ; Tenth North American Caribou Workshop (2004).
• Member, Board of Trustees, Sterling College, Craftsbury Common, Vermont (2000-2003);
Board of Advisors (2003-2004);Member of Board of Advisors (2004-2006).
Past and current graduate students and post doctoral fellows: Shauna BurnSilver (post
doc 2009- 2011); Marcy Okada (MS NRM 2010); Chanda Meek (PhD INDS 2009), Stacia
Backensto (MS Bio 2009); Jean Guzzettei (MS NRM 2007); Colin Shanley (MS Bio 2008);
Elisabeth Robins Padilla (MS Bio 2010); Dixie Dayo (PhD INDS, current); Jim Powell (PhD
INDS, 2012); Colette de Roo (PhD Nat Res and Sustainability, on leave); Archana Bali
(PhD INDS, current); Allison Butler Woodward (PhD Bio, current); Gabriella Halas (MS,
current); Jiake Zhou (MS Bio); Tracie Curry (PhD INDS Sustainability).
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