Nalaquq (“it is found”): a knowledge co-production
framework for environmental sensing and communication
in Indigenous arctic communities

Nalaquq (“it is found”): a knowledge co-production
framework for environmental sensing and communication
in Indigenous arctic communities

sensors, citizen science, Yup’ik, climate change, Indigenous, communication

In 2007, the Yup’ik village of Quinhagak contacted archaeologists after locals found precontact artifacts on a nearby beach. This collaboration led
to the subsequent excavation of Nunalleq, an important ancestral site threatened by climate change. Since then, an international research team
has partnered with Yup’ik leadership in Quinhagak to address the larger impact of climate change. In turn, this article introduces Nalaquq—our
framework for combining custom sensor networks with traditional knowledge to study ellavut (trans. “Our land and weather”). Doing so provides
a guide for communication scholars interested in working alongside Indigenous circumpolar communities to visualize and communicate climate
science.

Sean Gleason 1,2,*, Jonathan Lim 2,3, Lynn Marie Church2

, Warren Jones4

, Carl Nicolai5
,

Joe Pleasant6

, Willard Church6

, Alice Watterson 7

, Lonny Alaskuk Strunk8

, Richard Knecht2,9

Charlotta Hillerdal

https://doi.org/10.1093/jcmc/zmad030

Oxford University Press on behalf of International Communication Association.

23 May 2023

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