Three AOOS staff members are featured in the “How to Survive” exhibition at the Anchorage museum. Photo by Thomas Farrugia.
Three Alaska Ocean Observing System staff members are featured in the “How to Survive” exhibit at the Anchorage Museum. On display through January 19, the show explores survival through hope, care, and interconnectedness, urging reflection, action, and responsibility toward each other and the planet.
Joni Kitmiiq Spiess collaborated with the museum on a short film about subsistence and food security. She maintains a deep connection to her ancestral homelands through subsistence hunting, often alongside her son, Robert Ahmasuk. The film follows them as they practice traditional methods of harvesting animals from the land and sea. At AOOS, Joni leads education and community engagement initiatives.
Darcy Dugan and Thomas Farrugia are featured in the exhibit’s “Community Climate Archive,” which highlights responses from Alaskans bearing witness to climate change and reflecting on its effects on daily life in the North. A vignette includes Darcy discussing how to address climate change in personally meaningful ways. She contributed an image of her son captivated by a moment in the wilderness. As coordinator of the Alaska Harmful Algal Bloom Network, Thomas provided an image and audio recording about the impacts of harmful algal blooms on food safety and security in Alaska.
At 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 7, Darcy and Thomas will join other Community Climate Archive participants for an evening of stories and discussion about adaptation, hope, and resilience in a changing climate. Please see the calendar link and Facebook event for more information on this public event.