Testimony

December 7, 2022

U.S. Coast Guard’s Leadership on Arctic Safety, Security, and Environmental Responsibility

Testimony by Mike Sfraga, Chair, US Arctic Research Commission, for a hearing of the House Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.

September 20, 2022

Amplifying the Arctic: Strengthening Science to Respond to a Rapidly Changing Arctic

Testimony by Mike Sfraga, Chair, US Arctic Research Commission, for a hearing of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.

October 26, 2013

Field Hearing of the U.S. Senate Indian Affairs Committee on Health, Viability, and Rural Food Security

Testimony by Mary Ciuniq Pete, Director, Kuskokwim Campus, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Bethel, Alaska
Hosted by Senator Mark Begich

April 3, 2012

Alaska’s Sovereignty in Peril: The National Ocean Policy’s Goal to Federalize Alaska

Testimony by John Farrell, Executive Director, US Arctic Research Commission, for an oversight field hearing of the House Subcommittee on Fisheries, Oceans, Wildlife and Insular Affairs

July 28, 2011

Defending U.S. Economic Interests in the Changing Arctic: Is There a Strategy?

By Fran Ulmer, Chair U.S. Arctic Research Commission Submitted for the Record in Conjunction with The Senate Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast Guard Subcommittee Hearing on “Defending U.S. Economic Interests in the Changing Arctic: Is There a Strategy?”

August 18, 2010

Climate Change is Having Serious, Real-Time Impacts on Subsistence Resources and Subsistence Users

By Mary C. Pete at the Field Hearing on “The Changing Arctic: Implications for Federal Resources and Local Communities,” before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

May 6, 2010

Charting the Unknown: America’s Arctic Seafloor

By John Farrell before the Subcommittee on Insular Affairs, Oceans, and Wildlife
Committee on Natural Resources, U.S. House of Representatives Legislative Hearing on H.R. 2864

March 25, 2010

Youth Suicide in the Arctic

By Warren Zapol before the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs

October 22, 2009

An Accessible Arctic Ocean

By Mead Treadwell at the Arctic Marine Shipping Assessment Workshop

October 19, 2009

Arctic Fisheries: Five Things We Should Commit to Now

By Mead Treadwell at the International Arctic Fisheries Conference

August 21, 2009

Coastal Communities and Subsistence Use

By Vera Metcalf at the Ocean Policy Task Force Public Meeting

August 20, 2009

US Strategic Interests in the Age of an Accessible Arctic…What We Need to Know and Do Now

By Mead Treadwell before the Senate Committee on Appropriations, Homeland Security Subcomittee

March 25, 2009

Climate Change and the Arctic: New Frontiers of National Security

Mead Treadwell addresses House Committee on Foreign Affairs

February 2, 2009

Improving Indian Health

Testimony by Mead Treadwell before the Senate Indian Affairs Committee

July 16, 2008

Is America Prepared for an Accessible Arctic?

By Mead Treadwell before the House Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation
Icebreaker Support (55 KB pdf)
Letter to President (91 KB pdf)