Welcome to the first episode from the Science and Diplomacy Project Group in collaboration with the Polar Times Team mini-series: Sense of the Arctic

This series highlights the importance and need for collaboration with communities through community based monitoring (CBM) and how it started and has changed over the years.

Our first guest is Dr. Noor Johnson, a research scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She provides us with some information about what CBM is, where it was effectively used, its importance, and how you can start incorporating CBM into your own research.

Below are some links and references that are mentioned in the podcast that you may be interested in:

• Professional Website: https://nsidc.org/about/our-people/Noor_Johnson
• ELOKA: https://eloka-arctic.org/
• SIKU: https://siku.org/about
• SIZONet and AAOKH: https://eloka-arctic.org/sizonet
• Arcticcbm.org

1. Graeme Reed, Nicolas D. Brunet, David C. Natcher, 2020, Can indigenous community-based monitoring act as a tool for sustainable self-determination?, The Extractive Industries and Society, Volume 7, Issue 4, Pages 1283-1291, ISSN 2214-790X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2020.04.006.
2. David C. Natcher, Nicolas D. Brunet, 2020, Extractive resource industries and indigenous community-based monitoring: Cooperation or cooptation?, The Extractive Industries and Society, Volume 7, Issue 4, Pages 1279-1282, ISSN 2214-790X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2020.10.005.
3. Wilson NJ, Mutter E, Inkster J, Satterfield T. Community-Based Monitoring as the practice of Indigenous governance: A case study of Indigenous-led water quality monitoring in the Yukon River Basin. J Environ Manage. 2018 Mar 15;210:290-298. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2018.01.020. PMID: 29407189.

To contact Dr. Noor Johnson about the book published by Finn Danielsen contact her through the email available on her website.

As usual, if you would like to get in contact with Polar Times to recommend a guest, volunteer to be a guest, give us some feedback or just ask a question then you can email us (thesearepolartimes@gmail.com) or tweet APECS @Polar_Research any time- we would love to hear from you.

Episode edited by Nicholas Parlato and Damien Ringeisen

Cover art by Matthew Nelson, Nicholas Parlato, and Damien Ringeisen

Music: "Scuba" by Metre, Nul Tiel Records, UK (unaltered) CC BY-NC-SA