Our work on Prince of Wales island is steered by our Connectors at our partner communities on the island: the Craig Tribal Association and Organized Village of Kasaan. However, Prince of Wales (POW) is unique among Southeast Alaskan islands in its intricate and extensive road system, and the communities' dependence on this road system. Because of this interconnectedness, the geohazards that impact one side of the island can be felt everywhere else. By keeping this interconnectedness in mind, and working with collaborators at other communities or organizations on the southern side of POW, like in Klawock and Hydaburg, our team is best equipped to develop research and applications that can be useful for all residents across many of the island's incorporated and unincorporated communities.

The Ḵutí team has worked with Di Johnson at Community Collaborators and the Alaska Youth Stewards team to work with local high-schoolers in the summers to install and maintain monitoring equipment (mainly rain gauges) on hillslopes around the island, motivating local monitoring and stewardship efforts and teaching students about geoscience and geohazards.

Partners at the RAND Corporation built this website to compile information of interest for residents of Port St. Nick road, outside of Craig, Alaska. The unincorporated community is built on a hillslope with a significant history of and susceptibility to landslides.

Partners at the University of Oregon, under the direction of Professor Josh Roering, have inventoried almost 700 landslides on Prince of Wales island in a fourteen-year period between 2007-2021. Some findings from the inventory include that the majority of landslides are on South-facing hillslopes, which happen to be the direction most storms are coming in from. The landslides are also mostly occurring between August and December. The team will be working to map these landslides to specific climate events in order to see what kinds of storms or conditions are causing these landslide events.