What is the Anadyr Project?
Students from West High School in Anchorage, Alaska will collaborate in a three-year project with high school students from the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia to research the effects of climate change in their regions and discuss the efforts teenagers are making to protect and conserve their environment. Students will interview Native Alaskan elders, scientists, and local and regional leaders throughout the three-year cycle.
West High students will travel to Anadyr the first two weeks in June. West High will invite students and teachers from the Chukotka region to come to Alaska in October 2008 to attend the Beringia Days conference. Over the next two school years, both groups will focus on youth efforts to monitor and conserve their environment and on how the sharing of their cultures and scientific evidence from both regions can expand and further their collective conservation goals. Students will develop plans for outreach and education of other young people in their region as they continue to make presentations on the project at the following Beringia Days conference.
Other Berindia Projects:
http://www.nps.gov/akso/beringia/projects_2005.htm
http://www.nps.gov/akso/beringia/projects.htm
Where is Anadyr?
Anadyr, Russia is the largest city in the Chukotka region, with a population of 11,753 made up mostly of indigenous people, Russians, and Ukrainians. It is in the extreme north-eastern region of Russia. The city is located at the mouth of the Anadyr River on the tip of the southern promontory that sticks out into Anadyrskiy Liman. At 177°30′E, Anadyr is the easternmost town in Russia.
*Photograph used with permission from Patty Gray (http://www.faculty.uaf.edu/ffpag/anadyr.html)
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