BERINGIA DAYS

OCTOBER 11 - 12, 2000

ANCHORAGE MUSEUM OF HISTORY & ART

121 WEST 7^TH^ AVENUE

Moderator: Ted Birkedal, National Park Service - Cultural Resources

Tentative Schedule as of September 18, 2000

For further information contact:

Vladimir Bychkov (907) 257-2555

Peter Richter (907) 257-2617

[Wednesday, October 11]{.underline}

9:00 - 9:20 Welcome

> TBA, Anchorage Museum of History and Art

**Rob Arnberger**, Alaska Regional Director, National Park Service

9:20 - 9:50 *Beringian Microbes: From High Latitude Ashes to Sub-polar
Dust*

> **Gary Laursen**, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK

9:50 - 10:10 *Translation of Russian Materials for the Beringian Area*

> **Richard Bland**, Oregon State Museum of Anthropology Eugene, OR

10:10 -10:35 Break

10:35 - 11:05 *Chukotka Walrus Harvest Monitoring Project*

> **Carl Kava**, Eskimo Walrus Commission, Nome, AK
>
> **Gennady Smirnov**, TINRO-Chukotka, Anadyr, Russia

11:05 - 11:35 *The Role of the Yupik Eskimo Society in the Preservation
of a Traditional Eskimo Lifestyle*

> **Ludmila Ainana**, Yupik Eskimo Society of Chukotka
>
> Provideniya, Chukotka, Russia

11:35 - 12:00 *Can an International Park be a Tool for Economic
Development and Create Wealth*

> **John Tichotsky**, Alaska Pacific University, Anchorage, AK

12:00 - 1:30 Lunch

1:30 - 2:00 *TBA*

# Mikhail Zelensky, Naukan Production Cooperative

Lavrentiya, Chukotka, Russia

2:00 - 2:30 *Ten Years After -- A Retrospective on the Human Landscape
of Beringia*

> **Sue Steinacher**, City of Nome, AK

2:30 - 3:10 *Beringia GIS: Data Development and Application Tools*

> **Joni Piercy**, National Park Service, Anchorage, AK

## The Role of GIS Technology in Land Management

**Sergei Krasnopeev**, Pacific Institute of Geography, Vladivostok,
Primorye, Russia

***"**Talking Maps**"** Aspects of Their Use*

**Sergei Turchanov,** Pacific Institute of Geography, Vladivostok,
Primorye, Russia

3:10 - 3:30 Break

3:30 - 4:00 *Creating Interpretation with the Beringian Villages*

> **Randy Wise**, UIC Foundation-Barrow, AK / Wyoming State Parks and
> Historic Sites, Lander, WY

4:00 -- 4:20 *Chukotka: Priorities and Perspectives*

> **Vladimir Pavlenko**, Russian Academy of Sciences
>
> Arctic Research Center, Moscow, Russia

4:20 -- 4:50 *TBA*

> **Viktor Nikiforov**, World Wildlife Fund, Moscow, Russia

**Margaret Williams**, World Wildlife Fund, Washington, DC

7:00 - 9:00 Reception at Alaska Pacific University

[Thursday, OCTOBER 12]{.underline}

9:00 - 9:40 *Telling the Chukotka Story - A Return to Subsistence*

**Marc Brody**, Environmental Alliance, Mt. Horeb, WI

**Jeff Gersh**, Environmental Communications, Portland, OR

> **Igor Zagrebin**, Beringia Consultant, Provideniya, Russia

9:40 - 9:45 *Science Under Sail Workshop*

> **Barbara Sweetland Smith**, Alaska Historical Resources, Anchorage,
> AK

9:45 - 10:15 *Portrait of a Divided Maritime Family*

> **Saunders McNeill**, Native Village of Savoonga
>
> Palmer, AK

10:15 - 10:40 Break

10:40 - 11:20 *TBA*

> **Charles Johnson**, Nanuuq Commission, Nome, AK
>
> **Vladimir Etylen**, Union of Marine Mammal Hunters of Chukotka,
> Anadyr, Russia

11:20 - 11:40 *TBA*

> **Dan Mann**, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK

11:40 - 1:30 Lunch

> \[During lunch, the Cook Inlet Historical Society will host a brown
> bag lunch with a presentation by John Tichotsky *Opening the Door to
> Our Russian Neighbor -- Chukotka.* All are welcome\]

1:30 - 1:50 *TBA*

> **Nikolai Zheleznov,** Beringia Nature-Ethnic Park

Anadyr, Chukotka, Russia

1:50 - 2:10 *Us Coast Guard Icebreaker Support of Western Arctic
Research Programs*

> **Philip McGillivary**, US Coast Guard

2:10 - 2:40 *Golovin Field School*

> **Jack Fagerstrom,** Golovin Native Corporation

Golovin, AK

2:40 - 3:05 Break

3:05 - 3:35 *Surficial Geology and Landscape Evolution - Bering Land
Bridge National Preserve*

**Patricia Heiser,** University of Alaska-Fairbanks

Ohio University, Athens, OH

3:35 - 3:55 *What Alaska is Doing in the Russian Far East*

**Jeff Berliner**, State of Alaska Division of International Trade &
Market Development, Anchorage, AK

3:55 - 4:25 *Savoonga - Chukotka Project*

> **John Waghiyi**, Native Village of Savoonga, AK

4:25 -- 4:55 *TBA*