Geohazards and projects of interest have been determined through a series of meetings with local Tribal government, Council, and wider community engagement. The research is steered by our Connectors and partners in each community and the data is theirs to own and use as they see fit. For more information on our data management methods and ethos, go to Data Management.
The Ḵutí project will be hosting a Landslide-Induced Tsunamis workshop in Yakutat in collaboration with the Arctic T-SLIP Project the week of September 16th, 2025, to identify how the community of Yakutat, Alaska can protect itself from the impacts of landslide-induced tsunamis. In addition to invited Tribal staff, experts, scientists, agency representatives and community stakeholders, engagement and listening events will be held with the Tribal Council, Elders, school district, and wider community. For more information, reach out to lsilva@sitkascience.org.
The Ḵutí project is funding a series of routine and opportunistic drone and foot-surveys of the migration of the mouth of the Ahrnklin river/estuary, which has "eaten" the mouths of the Lost and Situk rivers and continues to migrate Northwest. The surveys will be held in the Summer and Fall of 2025, and hope to estimate and analyze the nature of the erosion and migration and the impacts of storm events on the speed of erosion. Surveys will be conducted by our Connector, Melenda Lekanof, and analyzed by hydrologist partners at Oregon State University and the US Forest Service.
Melenda Lekanof
Community Connector and Contractor, Yakutat Tlingit Tribe