Indigenous experts, hunters, scientists and policymakers shared their perspectives on what diminishing ice means for biodiversity, the economy, food security and more at the recent Arctic Encounter Symposium.
“Siku” means sea ice in the Siberian Yup’ik language. But about a hundred other Yup’ik words describe different types of sea ice, including icebergs, floating pressure ice ridges, solid ice safe for travel — and “pequ,”
With air temperatures increasing four times faster since 1979, the annual minimum sea ice extent has decreased by 13% per decade,. The freeze-up happens later and later in the season, and the shore-fast ice, composed of mostly first-year ice, is now significantly less stable, said Craig George, a retired wildlife biologist with the North Slope Borough Department of Wildlife Management.
“We are our environment,” she said. “No different than a seal or a polar bear, these changes ripple into our world as food security, food sovereignty as well as wellness — our spirituality and our well-being.” For hunters like Cyrus Harris, the head of the Hunter Support Program at the Maniilaq Association, sea ice melt means hazardous travel.
The participants of the Meaning of Melt panel stand next to the cube of ice brought from Utqiagvik to Anchorage for the Arctic Encounter Symposium on March 29, 2023.
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