GARY PETER KOFINAS
Mailing address:
Institute of Arctic Biology
University of Alaska Fairbanks
PO Box 75700,
Fairbanks, AK 99775-7000
office: (907)474-7078; fax (907)474 6967; home: 907 457 5725
e-mail: ffgpk@uaf.edu
webpage:http://www.faculty.uaf.edu/ffgpk/
Ph.D. (Interdisciplinary Studies in Resource Management Science), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada (1998).
Dissertation: “The Cost of Power Sharing: Community Involvement in Canadian Porcupine Caribou Co-Management.” Areas of concentrated study: Cultural Ecology, Common Property Theory, Institutional Analysis.
M.S.T (Environmental Studies) Antioch New England Graduate School, Keene, NH 1978.
B.A. (Philosophy), University of North Carolina Greensboro; graduate coursework in field botany. Greensboro, NC (1975)
Current:
Associate Professor of Resource Policy and Management with a joint appointment in the Department of Resources Management / School of Natural Resources and Agricultural Science and the Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Director/PI, Resilience and Adaptation Graduate Program, an NSF IGERT (August, 2007-) (I was Coordinator from 2002-2007)
other current:
Affiliate Faculty: Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of Alaska Anchorage. (2005-present)
Adjunct Professor – Institute for Resources, Environment, and Sustainability, University of British Columbia (1999-present).
Past:
Senior Fellow, Institute of Arctic Studies, Dartmouth College. (2001-2002); ("Research Fellow" from October, 1997-August 2001).
Research Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of Alaska Anchorage. (March, 2000-August 2002).
Research Associate II - Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks (February, 1996 -2001).
Director of Travel-Study and School-Year Programs - Interlocken Center for Experiential Learning, Hillsboro, New Hampshire. (1978-1987)
Affiliate Instructor - School of Agriculture and Land Resources Management, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Alaska (UAF Summer Sessions, 1989, 1990, 1991). I instructed undergraduate field-based Summer Session courses:
Adjunct Faculty - Antioch University New England Graduate School - Environmental Studies Department, Keene, New Hampshire: Spring, 1993; Summer 1992. Environmental Leadership.
Instructor/Adjunct Faculty (1974 to 1987) I worked with several institutions in a variety of learning environments. Courses were four- to six-week interdisciplinary field studies offered at the high school and undergraduate levels. Course title:
Program Director - New Hampshire Environmental Education Center, Hillsboro, NH (1980-81): A residential environmental center for elementary school students offered during the autumn and spring seasons. I had responsibility for overall curriculum development, program implementation, and staff hiring and training.
Brinkman, T. J., G. P. Kofinas, F. S. Chapin III, and D. K. Person. (in press).”Influence of Hunter Adaptability on Resilience of Subsistence Hunting Systems,” Ecological Anthropology.
Kofinas, Gary, Susan J. Herman, Chanda Meek, (2007), “Novel Problems Require Novel Solutions: Innovation as an Outcome of Adaptive Co-Management,” in Adaptive Co-Management: Collaboration, Learning and Multi-Level Governance, Fikret Berkes, Nancy Doubleday, Derek Armitage (eds). UBC Press. Pp. 249-267
Chapin, F.S., III, M.D. Robards, H.P. Huntington, J.F. Johnstone, S.F. Trainor, G.P Kofinas R.W. Ruess, N. Fresco, D.C. Natcher, and R.L. Naylor (2006) “Directional changes in ecological communities and social-ecological systems: A framework for prediction based on Alaskan examples.” American Naturalist. 168:S36-S49.
Chapin FS III, AL Lovecraft, ES Zavaleta, J Nelson, MD Robards, GP Kofinas, SF Trainor, G Peterson, HP Huntington, RL Naylor. 2006. Policy strategies to address sustainability of Alaskan boreal forests in response to a directionally changing climate. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences doi:10.1073/pnas.0606955103.
Kofinas, Gary, (2005) "Hunters and Researchers at the Co-management Interface: Emergent Dilemmas and the Problem of Legitimacy” in Anthropologica, Vol. 47 No 2: 179-196, Special issue Co-Management and Indigenous Communities.
Philippa McNeil, Don Russell, Brad Griffith, Anne Gunn, Gary P Kofinas (2005) "Where the wild things are: Seasonal Variation in Caribou Distribution in Relation to Climate Change" in Rangifer, Special Issue No 16. Pp. 51-63.
Berman, Matt, and Gary Kofinas (2004)"Hunting for Models: Rational Choice and Grounded Approaches to Analyzing Climate Effects on Subsistence Hunting in an Arctic Community" Ecological Economics Vol. 49: 31-46.
Larry Hinzman, Neil Bettez, F. Stuart Chapin, Mark Dyurgerov, Chris Fastie, Brad Griffith, Robert D. Hollister, Allen Hope, Henry P. Huntington, Anne Jensen, Douglas Kane, David R. Klein, Gary P. Kofinas, Amanda Lynch, Andrea Lloyd, A. David McGuire, Frederick Nelson, Walter C. Oechel, Thomas Osterkamp, Charles Racine, Vladimir Romanovsky, Doug Stow, Matthew Sturm, Craig E. Tweedie, George Vourlitis, Marilyn Walker, Donald Walker, Patrick J. Webber, Jeff Welker, Kevin Winker, Kenji Yoshikawa. (2005) “Evidence and Implications of Recent Climate Change in Terrestrial Regions of the Arctic,” in Climate Change, Vol. 72 No 3: 251-298
Berman, M., Nicolson, C., Kofinas, G., Tetlichi, J., and Martin, S. (2004) “Adaptation and Sustainability in a Small Arctic Community: Results of an Agent-Based Simulation Model.” Arctic Vol. 57 No 4: 401–414.
Kofinas, Gary, P. Lyver, D. Russell, R. White and A. Nelson. (2003) "Towards a Protocol for Community Monitoring of Caribou Body Condition." Rangifer. Special Issue Vol 14 No 7: 43-52.
Kofinas, Gary and Don Russell, (2004) “North America,” in Family-Based Reindeer Herding and Hunting Economies, and the Status and Management of Wild Reindeer/Caribou Populations, A Report to the Sustainable Development Working Group of the Arctic Council, Birgitte Ulvevadet and Konstantin Klokov (eds.) Centre for Saami Studies, University of Tromsø. (pp 21-52).
Nicolson, Craig R., Anthony M. Starfield, Gary P. Kofinas and John A. Kruse., (2002) Ten Heuristics For Interdisciplinary Modeling Projects," Ecosystems, Vol 5. 376-384.
Kruse, J.A., R.G. White, H.E Epstein, B. Archie, M.D. Berman, S.R. Braund, F.S. Chapin III, J. Charlie Sr., C.J. Daniel, J. Eamer, N. Flanders, B. Griffith, S. Haley, L. Huskey, B. Joseph, D.R. Klein, G.P. Kofinas, S.M. Martin, S.M. Murphy, W. Nebesky, C. Nicolson, D.E. Russell, J. Tetlichi, A. Tussing, M.D. Walker, O.R. Young, (2004) “Modeling Sustainability of Arctic Communities: An Interdisciplinary Collaboration of Researchers and Local Knowledge Holders,” Ecosystems, Volume 7: 1-14
Kofinas, Gary, Gail Osherenko, David Klein, and Bruce Forbes, (2000) “Research Planning in the Face of Change: The Human Role in Reindeer/Caribou Systems,” Polar Research, Volume 19, No. 1, 3-21.
Russell, D., G. Kofinas, and B.Griffith. 2000. Need and Opportunity for a North American Caribou Knowledge Cooperative. Polar Research Volume 19, No 1, 117-130.
Kofinas, Gary P. and Julian R. Griggs, "Collaboration and the B.C. Round Table on the Environment and the Economy: An Early-Stage Analysis of a 'Better Way' of Deciding," in Environments Journal - Special Issue; Shared Decision Making and Natural Resources Planning: Canadian Insights; Vol. 23. no. 2; pp. 17-40. University of Waterloo, Waterloo. 1996.
Journal articles / peer reviewed (in press or review)
S. F. Trainor, F.S Chapin III, H.P. Huntington, G. Kofinas, D.C. Natcher, “Arctic Climate Impacts and Cross-Scale Linkages: Environmental Justice in Canada and the United States” (In press) Local Environments: International Journal of Justice and Sustainability.
Journal Articles Published / Not Peer Reviewed
Natcher, David, Sharman Haley, and Gary Kofinas, Walt Parker. Summer/Winter 2005 “Effective Local Institutions for Collective Action in Arctic Communities.” Northern Notes in Northern Review; pp 259-273. Also posted at http://www.iser.uaa.alaska.edu/Home/ResearchAreas/EffectiveAction/default.htm
Kofinas, Gary, (1993) "Subsistence Hunting in a Global Economy; Northern Wildlife Co-Management Contributions to Community Economic Development," in Making Waves, Volume 4, Number 3. Also posted at Arctic Circle web site: http://arcticcircle.uconn.edu/
Book chapters and Scientific Reports
Trainor SF, A Godduhn, LK Duffy, FS Chapin III, DC Natcher, G Kofinas, HP Huntington. In-Press. Environmental Injustice in the Canadian Far North: Persistent Organic Pollutants and Arctic Climate Impacts. Chapter in Concepts of Environmental Justice in Canada, U.B.C. Press. J. Agyeman, R. Haluza-Delay, P. Cole and P. O'Riley, Eds.
Klein, David R (lead), Leonid M. Baskin, Lyudmila S. Bogoslovskaya, Kjell Danell, Anne Gunn, David B. Irons, Gary P. Kofinas, Kit M. Kovacs, Margarita Magomedova, Rosa H. Meehan, Don E. Russell, Patrick Valkenburg, (2005) Chapter 12: “Hunting, Herding, Fishing and Gathering: Indigenous Peoples and Renewable Resource Use in the Arctic,” ACIA Arctic Climate Change Assessment, Cambridge University Press. 649-690.
Nuttall, Mark, Fikret Berkes, Bruce Forbes, Gary Kofinas, Tatiana Vlassova, George Wenzel, (2005) Hunting, Herding, Fishing, and Gathering: Indigenous Peoples and Renewable Resource Use in the Arctic, Chapter 10: Arctic Climate Change Assessment; pp. 650-687.
Chapin, F.S., III, M. Berman, T.V. Callaghan, P. Convey, A.-S. Crepin, K. Danell, H. Ducklow, B. Forbes, G. Kofinas, A.D. McGuire, M. Nuttall, R. Virginia, O. Young, and S. Zimov. 2005. “Polar Systems.” Pages 717-743 In H. Hassan, R. Scholes, and N. Ash (Eds.) Ecosystems and Human Well-Being: Current State and Trends. Island Press, Washington, ISBN 1-55963-227-5.
Kofinas, Gary with Old Crow, Aklavik, Fort McPherson, and Arctic Village, (2002) "Community Contributions to Ecological Monitoring: Knowledge Co-Production in the US-Canada Arctic Borderlands" in Frontiers in Polar Social Science - Indigenous Observations of Environmental Change, editors I. Krupnik and D. Dyanna. ARCUS. 54-92.
Nelleman C. , I. Vistnes, B.C. Forbes, T. Forseman, E. Husby, G.P. Kofinas, B.P. Kaltenborn, J. Rouaud, M. Magomedova, R. Bobiwash, C. Lambrechts, P.J. Schei, S. Tveitdal, O. Gron, and T.S. Larens: GLOBIO - Global Method for Mapping Human Impacts on the Biosphere. (2001) UNEP Report.
Eamer, Joan, Don Russell and Gary Kofinas, (1997) “Impacts of Climate Change on Aboriginal Lifestyles in British Columbia and Yukon” in Responding to Global Climate Change in British Columbia, Volume 1 of the Canada Country Study: Climate Impacts and Adaptation, Environment Canada, Eric Taylor and Taylor, Bill (eds.) pp. 16.1-16.6. 1997.
Research plans, technical reports, professional newsletters, and proceedings
Gary Kofinas, Bruce Forbes, Fikret Berkes, Matthew Berman Hugh Beach, Terry Chapin, Yvon Csonka, Kjell Danell, Tamara Semenova, Joe Tetlichi, , Oran Young, Dawn Magness. 2007. “A Research Plan for the Study of Rapid Change, Resilience and Vulnerability in Social-Ecological Systems of the Arctic.” International Arctic Science Committee
Gary Kofinas, Bruce Forbes, Fikret Berkes, Matthew Berman Hugh Beach, Terry Chapin, Yvon Csonka, Kjell Danell, Tamara Semenova, Joe Tetlichi, , Oran Young, Dawn Magness. “A Research Plan for the Study of Rapid Change, Resilience and Vulnerability in Social-Ecological Systems of the Arctic.” June 2005. CPR Digest of the International Association for the Study of Common Property. 1-10.
Sturm, M., F.S. Chapin, III, M. E. Edwards, D.B. Griffith, H.P. Huntington, G.P. Kofinas, A.H. Lloyd, A.H. Lynch, B.J. Peterson, R.A. Pielke, Sr., J.P. Schimel, M.C. Serreze, and G.R. Shaver. 2003. PACTS (Pan-Arctic Cycles, Transitions, and Sustainability): A Science Plan. Land-Atmosphere-Ice Interactions Science Management Office, University of Alaska, Fairbanks.
G. Kofinas, C. Nicolson, M. Berman, and P. McNeil. "Caribou Harvesting Strategies and Sustainability Workshop Proceedings, held in Inuvik, Northwest Territories, April 15-16, 2002." NSF Sustainability of Arctic Communities Project (Phase II). 2002. Posted at: http://www.taiga.net/sustain/lib/sustain2/index.html
Kofinas, G, D. E. Russell, and R. White. 2002 "Community Monitoring of Caribou Body Condition: Technical Workshop Proceedings." Technical Report Series No. 390. Canadian Wildlife Service, Ottawa, Ontario, 31 pp.
Russell, D., G. Kofinas, B. Griffith. "Barren-Ground Caribou Calving Grounds Workshop: Report of Proceedings, Technical Report Series 396. November, 2001 Canadian Wildlife Service, Ottawa, Ontario, “39 pp.
Gary Kofinas, Bruce Forbes, Fikret Berkes, Matthew Berman Hugh Beach, Terry Chapin, Yvon Csonka, Kjell Danell, Tamara Semenova, Joe Tetlichi, , Oran Young, Dawn Magness. “A Research Plan for the Study of Rapid Change, Resilience and Vulnerability in Social-Ecological Systems of the Arctic.” June 2005. CPR Digest of the International Association for the Study of Common Property. 1-10.
Kofinas, Gary . February 2, 2003. “Resilience of Human-Rangifer Systems,” IHDP Update, Newsletter of the International Human Dimensions Program on Global Environmental Change. Elisabeth Dyck (ed.). International Human Dimensions Program, Bonn, Germany. 6-7
SELECT PRESENTATIONS, PUBLISHED ABSTRACTS, POSTERS
Kofinas, Gary, Don Russell, Don Russell, “Starting the clock for the CircumArctic Rangifer Monitoring and Assessment Network,” Paper presented at the 2006 Arctic Science Conference . October 2-4, 2006, conference proceedings page 40.
Backensto, Stacia, Gary Kofinas, Abbey Powell, Craig Gerlach, Erich Follmann, (2006) “The Common Raven through the Eyes of Oil Field Workers: Local Knowledge in Alaskan North Slope Oil Fields.” Poster presented at the 2006 Arctic Science Conference . October 2-4, 2006, conference proceedings page 12.
Guzzettii, Jean, Gary Kofinas, Peter Fix, Laura Milner, “Economic Resilience through Environmental Recognition: A Green Star Case Study Anchorage Alaska.” paper presented at the 2006 Arctic Science Conference. October 2-4, 2006. conference proceedings page 29.
Chapin, F.S., III, A.L. Lovecraft, M.D. Robards, S.F. Trainor, G.P. Kofinas. 2006. “Social-Ecological Sustainability of Ecosystem Services in a Directionally Changing World: Addressing Climatic Change in Interior Alaska.” LTER All-Scientist Meeting, Estes Park, CO. Sept. 20, 2006.
Meek, Chanda, Martin Robards, Gary Kofinas, Amy Lovecraft, “Building Resilience Through international co-management: Case studies of Walrus and polar bear management in the Bering straits region of Alaska and Chukotka.” Paper presented at the International Symposium on Society and Natural Resources. June 6, 2006, page 36
Brinkman, T. J., G. P. Kofinas, F. S. Chapin III, and D. K. Person. 2006. “Resilience of a subsistence hunter system in a rapidly changing social and ecological environment.” Paper presented at the 12th International Symposium on Society and Natural Resources, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. June 6, 2005; page 36.
Beier, Colin, Todd Brinkman, Chanda Meek, Gary Kofinas, Terry Chapin, “Managing for Regional Resilience: The interface of policy and ecology in Alaska” poster presented at the IGERT Project Meeting, Washington, DC, May 13-15, 2006.
Kofinas, Gary, Joe Tetlichi, Elisabeth Robins, Dorothy Cooley, Barney Smith. (2006) “Hunting Caribou On ‘The Road To Resources’ The Co-Management Challenges Of The Dempster Highway.” Poster presented at the Eleventh North American Caribou Workshop. April 23-27, 2006. Jasper, Alberta Canada.
Brinkman, T. J., G. Kofinas, F. S. Chapin III. 2006. “Influence of hunter adaptability on resilience of subsistence lifestyles.” The 66th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Vancouver,British Columbia, Canada. April 2006
Kofinas, Gary, 2004. “Models for Systematic Community-based Ecological Monitoring.” Keynote speaker, National Park Service Cultural and Natural Resources Meeting. March 11, 2004.
Backensto, S., G. Kofinas, A. Powell, C. Gerlach, E. Follmann. 2006. “The Common Raven (Corvus corax) through the eyes of Oil Field Workers: Local knowledge in Alaska’s North Slope Oil Fields.” Eleventh Alaska Bird Conference and Workshops February 7-9, 2006 Juneau, AK.
Kofinas Gary, Matt Berman, Bruce Forbes, Brad Griffith, Konstantin Klokov, Don Russell. “How Resilient are Social-Ecological Systems of the Arctic to Global Change?” Presented at the Sixth Open Meeting of the Human Dimensions of Global Change Research Community. 9-13 October 2005, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany. p. 105.
Beier, C., T. J. Brinkman, G. Kofinas, F. S. Chapin III, and D. K. Person. 2005. “Building resilience into a multiple use ecosystem: a conventional or adaptive management approach?” Poster session. Joint meeting of the Alaska Society of American Foresters and Alaska Chapter of The Wildlife Society, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska.
Chapin, F.S., III, M. Robards, H.P. Huntington, J.F. Johnstone, S.F. Trainor, R.W. Ruess, N. Fresco, D. Natcher, G. Kofinas. 2005. “Predicting directional changes in ecological communities and social-ecological systems.” American Society of Naturalists Annual Meeting, Fairbanks.
Hinzman,L.D., N. Bettez, W.R. Bolton, F.S. Chapin, M.B. Dyurgerov, C.L. Fastie, B. Griffith, R.D. Hollister, A. Hope, H.P. Huntington, A.M. Jensen, G.J. Jia, T. Jorgenson, D.L. Kane, D.R. Klein, G. Kofinas, A.H. Lynch, A.H. Lloyd, A.D. McGuire, F.E. Nelson, M. Nolan, W.C. Oechel, T.E. Osterkamp, C.H. Racine, V.E. Romanovsky, R.S. Stone, D.A. Stow, M.
Sturm, C.E. Tweedie, G.L. Vourlitis, M.D. Walker, D.A. Walker, P.J. Webber, J. Welker, K.S. Winker, and K. Yoshikawa. Fall 2004.” Evidence and implications of recent climate change in northern Alaska and other Arctic Regions.” Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union. San Francisco, California.
Russell, D. E., G. P. Kofinas, B. Griffith and R. G. White. “Assessing the impacts of oil and gas development on wild Rangifer herds: data requirements, assessment tools and monitoring initiatives.” 7th International Conference and Exhibition of Offshore Oil and Gas Development - RAO/CIS Offshore 2005. International Symposium on Oil and Gas Activities in the Arctic,
St. Petersburg, Russia, 13-15 September 2005. Symposium organized by Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme ( AMAP ).
Gary Kofinas and Sharman Haley. “Institutional Assets for Community and Regional Resilience under Forces for Change,” Working paper presented to the Arctic Science Conference, Anchorage Session, September 30, 2004.
Kofinas, Gary, J. Eamer, Philipa McNeil, 2004. “Monitoring Caribou with Local Knowledge: What Can Communities Contribute?,” Book of Abstracts, 10th North American Caribou Workshop, May 4-6, 2004. Girdwood, Alaska.
Kendrick, Anne and Gary Kofinas, “Facing Change Together: Elders and Caribou in the Kivaliq Region of Nunavut, Canada,” Abstracts. Fifth International Arctic Social Science Congress, Anchorage Session, May 30, 2004
Kofinas, Gary and Don Russell, “Common Patterns and Regional Differences in Caribou Hunting Systems of North America.” Abstracts. Fifth International Arctic Social Science Congress, Anchorage Session, May 30, 2004
Haley, Sharman, Gary Kofinas, 2004. “Institutional Assets for Community and Regional Management of Forces for Change,” Abstracts. Fifth International Arctic Social Science Congress, Anchorage Session, May 30, 2004
Chapin, F.S., III, P. Baer, C. Beier, B. Forbes, H. Huntington, G. Kofinas, A. Lovecraft, A. D. McGuire, D. Natcher, R. Naylor, S. Rupp, S.F. Trainor, E. Zavaleta, and S. Zimov. 2004. “Limits to sustainability in a directionally changing world: Circumpolar patterns and a conceptual model of regional mechanisms.” International Conference of Arctic Social Scientists. Fairbanks, AK.
Nicolson, Craig, Matt, Gary Kofinas (University of Alaska Fairbanks), and Jack Kruse, Modeling for Insight: Exploring Regional Sustainability and Resilience with Simulation Models and Participatory Integrated Assessment, Abstracts. Fifth International Arctic Social Science Congress, Anchorage Session, May 30, 2004
Berman, Matt, Craig Nicolson, and Gary Kofinas. "Integrating Research, Local Knowledge, and Collective Action in a Dynamic Simulation Model of Cross-Boundary Regional Development," Western Regional Science Association Annual Meeting, Wailea, Hawaii, February 2004.
Swystun Heather A., Communities of Tuktoyaktuk, Inuvik, Aklavik, Tssigehtchic, and Fort McPherson, Gary Kofinas, James E. Hines, Russell D. Dawson, “Local Observations of Tundra Swans (Cygnus columbianus COLUMBIANUS) in The Mackenzie Delta Region, Northwest Territories, Canada,” Proceedings of the Tundra Swan Society Conference. 2004
Gary Kofinas, April 27-28, 2003, “Simulation Modeling and Local Communities: Lessons Learned form Assessing Resilience in a Cross-Cultural Setting” Arctic Forum, organized by ARCUS/sponsored by NSF, Washington, DC Invited plenary speaker.
Berman, Matt, Craig Nicolson, and Gary Kofinas. "Integrating Research, Local Knowledge, and Collective Action in a Dynamic Simulation Model of Cross-Boundary Regional Development," presented to the Western Regional Science Association annual meeting, Wailea, Hawaii, February 2004.
Kofinas, Gary, “Hunting Economies in North America.”. Presented at the Sustainable Reindeer Husbandry International Seminar “Family-Based Reindeer Economy and the Status and Management of Wild Reindeer/Caribou Populations” Yakutsk, Russia, 22-27, March 2004.
Backensto, S., A. Powell, G. Kofinas, C. Gerlach. “The Common Raven (Corvus corax) on the North Slope of Alaska: Wildlife Management and the Human Dimension, Presentations and Poster Abstracts. SEARCH Open Science Meeting, Seattle, October 27, 2003. p.155.
Kofinas, Gary and Joan Eamer. “Detecting Changes through Community-based Ecological Monitoring: Successful Examples of Systematic Local Knowledge Observations Systems,” Presentations and Poster Abstracts. SEARCH Open Science Meeting, Seattle, October 27, 2003. pg. 145.
Kofinas, Gary P. and Donald Russell. 2004.” An International Initiative in Human Dimensions Research: Heterogeneity and Resilience in Human-Rangifer Systems.” Invited Paper presented at the Arctic Science Summit Week. Reykjavik, Iceland, April 2004.
White, R.G., D.E.Russell, Ø. Holand, B. Griffith, R.D. Cameron, G. Kofinas, E.D. Nobmann and J. Kruse. 2001. Nutritional ecology of reindeer/caribou and their interactions with humans. In; Symposium: Nutrition at the Edge of the Earth, Proc. 25th Meeting Nutr. Soc. Austr. Canberra. 3-5 December 2003. Asia Pacific J. Clin. Nutr. 10: S3-S4
Kofinas, Gary and Craig Gerlach. “Is there a method to our madness?: A methodological assessment of HARC” Human/Environment Interactions Research: Patterns, Connections, and Methods Workshop. October 2003. Seattle. Posted at www.Arcus.org
Berman, Matt, Craig Nicolson, Gary Kofinas, and Stephanie Martin, "Adaptation and Sustainability in a Small Arctic Community: Results of an Agent-Based Simulation Model," poster presented to SEARCH Open Science Meeting, Seattle, October 2003.
Kofinas, Gary, Simulation Models and Indigenous Communities. Invited plenary speaker. 2003 Arctic Forum, Washington, DC. April 27-28, 2003.
Berman, Matt, Craig Nicolson, and Gary Kofinas. "Hunting for Models: Neoclassical and Institutional Approaches to Analyzing Climate Effects on Subsistence Hunting in an Arctic Community," presented to the annual meeting of the Western Regional Science Association, Palm Springs, California, February 2001.
Kofinas, Gary, "Roads to Co-management: Regime Context and the Future of the Great Herds," presented to the Fourth International Congress of Arctic Social Science, May 17, 2001, Quebec City, Quebec.
Kofinas, Gary, Phil Lyver, Don Russell, Robert While, "Towards a Protocol for community monitoring of caribou body condition," presented at the North American Caribou Workshop, Kuujuak, Quebec, April 24, 2001.
Nicolson, C.R., G. P. Kofinas, M.D. Berman, J. A. Kruse, R.G. White, D. E. Russell, J. Johnstone, “Climate, Vegetation, Caribou, and People: A regional integrated assessment model for investigating the sustainability of Arctic communities,” poster presented at the Tenth Arctic Ungulate Conference, Tromso, Norway, August 12, 1999.
Kofinas, Gary P., “Cultural Difference and its Implications to Future Research,” invited plenary speaker at the “Human Role in Reindeer/Caribou Systems Workshop,” The Arctic Centre, Rovaniemi, Finland, February 11 1999.
Berman, Matt, with Nicolson C.R., G.P. Kofinas, J.A. Kruse, R.G. White, D.E. Russell, J. Johnstone. "Climate, Vegetation, Caribou, and People: and Integrated Assessment Model for Investigating the Sustainability of Arctic Communities," poster presented to a conference entitled, Can the Last Frontier Have a Sustainable Future? Anchorage, July 1999.
Kofinas, Gary P., “Melding Methods to Monitor a Caribou Commons: The Arctic Borderlands Ecological Knowledge Co-operative,” invited plenary speaker at the Seventh meeting of the International Association for the Study of Common Property, Vancouver, BC, June 11, 1998.
Kruse, J., R. White, B., Griffith, and G. Kofinas. “The Sustainability of Arctic Communities: An Example of Integrating Social and Natural Sciences.” Arctic Systems Science, Land Atmosphere Ice Interactions (LAII) 1997 Science Workshop, March 27-29, 1997 in Record of Meeting, LAII Office, University of Alaska Fairbanks. November, 1997.
Kofinas, Gary P., “The North Yukon Ecological Knowledge Cooperative” presented at the 1997 North Slope Conference, in 1997 North Slope Conference Summary Report, Yukon Department of Renewable Resources, Whitehorse, pp. 45-49.
Kofinas, Gary, “Internalizing the Externality: Community Transaction Costs of Self Regulation Under Co-management,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Seattle, Washington, Seattle, March 5, 1997.
Kofinas, Gary, “Arguments for the Advancement of Community-Based Ecosystem Monitoring,” presented at the American Association for the Advancement of Science - Arctic Science Conference. Girdwood, Alaska. September 19-21, 1996.
Kofinas, Gary P., “Science, Democracy, and Communications- Hunters and Researchers at the Co-Management Interface,” Presented at the Forth Arctic Ungulate Conference, University of Alaska at Fairbanks, Alaska, August, 1995
Kofinas, Gary P., “Ways of Knowing Caribou: Community Dilemmas and Power Dynamics in Co-Management Decision Making,” presented at the Fifth Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property, Bodø, Norway, May, 1995.
Kofinas, Gary P., "Impact Assessment and Northern Development: Uncertainty and Inequity in the Northern Commons," paper presented at the Third Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property, October, 1992, Washington, DC.
Murie, Margaret, Gary Kofinas, and Ted Kerasote, The Arctic Refuge Conflict: Oil vs. Wilderness, Earth Day Presentation of the Teton Science School, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, April 1990.
IPY: Climate Change and Changes in Ecosystem Services and Society. National Science Foundation. S Chapin (PI), Kofinas Rupp and Hepa (Co-PI). (2007-2010) $2.2 million.
IGERT: Resilience and Adaptation of Social-Ecological Systems: Global-Local Interactions in a Rapidly Changing North. National Science Foundation. Gary Kofinas (PI) 2007-2012. $3.2 million
Conference for Sustainability IGERTs, National Science Foundation IGERT, supplement to the current UAF IGERT “Regional Resilience and Adaptation: Planning for Change”. (2006-2007) $50,000.
The Study of Sharing Networks to Assess the Vulnerabilities of Local Communities to Oil and Gas Development Impacts in Arctic Alaska, funding pending, Mineral Management Services US Department of Interior. G. Kofinas (PI); J Magdanz, P Fix; C Gerlach (Co-PIs) (2007-2010). $785,000.
Sustaining Resources Through Indigenous-State Power-Sharing: A Study of Marine Mammal Co-Management in Alaska. National Science Foundation: Dissertation Improvement Grant for Chanda Meek. G Kofinas (PI) (2006—2008) $20,000.
Application of space-based technologies to examine land cover/land use change along a transect along the Yamal Peninsula and Novaya Zemlya. NASA. D Walker (PI) with six other co-investigators (2006-2009). $755,534
Heterogeneity and Resilience of Human-Rangifer Systems: A Circumpolar Social-Ecological Synthesis funded by National Science Foundation - Arctic Systems Science /OPP. G. Kofinas (PI); M Berman and B Griffiths (Co-PIs). (2005-2008) $750,000.
Social Science Supplement to the Bonanza Creek Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) with Terry Chapin, Amy Lovecraft, and Sarah Trainor (2004-2005) $50,000.
Effective Local Institutions for Collective Action in Arctic Communities: A Workshop, National Science Foundation/OPP/ Arctic Social Science. with Sharman Haley and; David Natcher. (2002-2003) $25,000.
Co-management Institutions for Sustainability of Common Pool Resources, National Science Foundation - UAF EPSCoR Program -- Resilience Node. (2004)
Combining multidisciplinary datasets to assess vulnerability of Rangifer (Reindeer/ Caribou), funded by the Climate Change Action Fund of Canada, with Don Russell (2004-2005) CND$35,000.
Advancing the Science of Integrated Assessment, funded by National Science Foundation Methods and Models of Integrated Assessment Program, Washington, DC; Co-investigator with JKruse, 4 Native villages, and 14 other researchers. (1999-2002) $1.8 million.
Relative Value of North American Caribou Calving Grounds, funded by the Northern Ecosystems Initiative of Canada, co-investigator with Don Russell and Brad Griffith. (2001-2002) CND$125,000.
Integration of Traditional and Scientific Knowledge in Large Mammal Research, funded by National Science Foundation, Office of Polar Programs - Arctic Social Science Division. G Kofinas (PI), (1999-2003) $182,403.
Tools for Assessing Cumulative Effects of Industrial Development on Bathurst Caribou, funded by Government of Northwest Territories, Yellowknife, NT, Canada. 2000, co-investigator with Don Russell and Joan Eamer. 2001-2002 CND$150,000
Human Role in Reindeer/Caribou Project, funded by the International Arctic Science Committee, Oslo, Norway, 1999-on-going. Principal Investigator. $10,000 per year, renewed for three years.
Impact of Climate Change On Migratory Caribou: Herd-Specific Assessments and Application of Tools to Evaluate Public Policy Options, funded by the Canadian Climate Change Action Fund, Environment Canada, co-investigator with Don Russell and Brad Griffith CND$25,000
Sustainability of Arctic Communities: Interactions between Global Changes, Public Policies, and Environmental Processes, funded by the National Science Foundation, Office of Polar Programs, Washington, DC, co-investigator with Jack Kruse (PI) and 21 investigators. 1995-1999. $1.2 million.
Feasibility of Community-Based Ecological Monitoring, funded by Environment Canada, Ecological Monitoring and Assessment Network (EMAN) Program. 1998-2000;. G Kofinas (PI). CND$20,000.
Community Involvement in Northern Common Property Co-Management: The Case of the Porcupine Herd, U.S. Man and the Biosphere Reserve Program, High Latitudes Ecosystems Directorate; U.S. Department of State, Washington, DC. 1993-1996. G Kofinas (PI). $50,000.
Community Involvement in Caribou Co-Management: The Case of the Porcupine Herd, National Science Foundation, Dissertation Improvement Grant for Gary Kofinas, J Kruse (PI) Office of Polar Programs/Arctic Social Science Division, Washington, DC. 1993-1996: $20,000.