Shari Gearheard
Harvard University
Dr. Shari Gearheard (BES, MES University of Waterloo, Canada; Ph. D. University of Colorado at Boulder, U. S.) is currently a post doc hosted by Harvard University as part of the NOAA Postdoctoral Program in Climate and Global Change for 2003-2005. Starting January 2006, she will join the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) at the University of Colorado as a research scientist. Dr. Gearheard has been working with Inuit in Nunavut, Canada, for over a decade and her research focuses on Inuit knowledge of climate and environmental change. Her work includes the documentation of Inuit knowledge and observations, finding linkages between Inuit and scientific knowledge, the development of collaborative research approaches, and experimenting with creative research products for use in communities and schools. She has been a consultant for Inuit communities and the Government of Nunavut on several climate and environment related projects. Dr. Gearheard (nee Fox) was co-lead author of Chapter 3 ("The Changing Arctic: Indigenous Perspectives") of the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA) and she is part of the Coastal Working Group for the second International Conference on Arctic Research Planning (ICARP II). Dr. Gearheard also serves on the National Academy of Sciences study committee on designing an Arctic Observing Network (AON). Shari lives in Clyde River (Kangiktugaapik), an Inuit community on the east coast of Baffin Island, Nunavut, where she enjoys travelling and exploring the sea ice and tundra with her husband Jake and dog Bruce.
