Courses:
NRM 694 - Adaptive Management
NRM 692 - The Resilience Seminar
NRM 697 - The Resilience& Adaptation Internship

Research Interests: Human dimensions of northern resource management including US-Canadian comparative work, sustainability of communities, community resource management systems, indigneous-agency co-management institutions, local knowledge in ecological monitoring and integrated assessment, human role in reindeer/caribou systems

Examples of Research Support:
“Combining multidisciplinary data sets to assess vulnerability of Rangifer (Reindeer/ Caribou),” funded by the Climate Change Action Fund of Canada, with Don Russell and Brad Griffith.

"The Study of Co-management in Alaska," initial support from the UAF EPSCoR grant.

"Human Role in Reindeer Caribou Systems Project," supported by the International Arctic Science Committee.

Examples of Publications:
Berman, Matt, and Gary Kofinas, "Hunting for Models: Rational Choice and Grounded Approaches to Analyzing Climate Effects on Subsistence Hunting in an Arctic Community" In press. Ecological Economics.

Kofinas, G., P. Lyver, D. Russell, R. White and A. Nelson "Towards a Protocol for Community Monitoring of Caribou Body Condition." In press. Rangifer

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.

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.

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.

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.

Kruse, J.A., White, R.G., Epstein, H.E., Archie, B., Berman, M.D., Braund, S.R., Chapin III, F.S., Charlie Sr., J., Daniel, C.J., Eamer, J., Flanders, N., Griffith, B., Haley, S., Huskey, L., Joseph, B., Klein, D.R., Kofinas, G.P., Martin, S.M., Murphy, S.M., Nebesky, W., Nicolson, C., Peter, K., Russell, D.E., Tetlichi, J., Tussing, A., Walker, M.D., Young, O.R., In press. “Sustainability of Arctic Communities: An Interdisciplinary Collaboration of Researchers and Local Knowledge Holders.” Ecosystems.

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 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.