Current Projects:
Local and Indigenous Climate Knowledge Network: Addressing Drought Vulnerability and Adaptation in Alaska, the Pacific Islands and the American Southwest. Supported by the NOAA RISA Program, Coping with Drought Initiative, 2008-9.
Improving Seasonal Fire Predictions and Information Services in Alaska for Regional and National Fire Resource Planning. Supported by the NOAA RISA Program, Coping with Drought Initiative, 2008-9.
Interdisciplinary study of the effects of functional biodiversity on ecosystem processes, ecosystem services, and sustainability in the Americas (project wiki). Supported by the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research, 2006-9.
Research Interests:
Vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in Alaska. The communication of climate science and its application to natural resource policy and decision-making. Human dimensions of global change in the Arctic.
Education:
2002 - Ph.D. in Energy and Resources, University of California, Berkeley
1998 - M.A. in Energy and Resources, University of California, Berkeley
1992 - B.A. in Philosophy and Environmental Studies, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA
1991 - International Honors Program: Global Ecology, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Honors:
Phi Beta Kappa
Sigma Xi
Select Publications:
S. F. Trainor, A. Godduhn, L. K. Duffy, F. S. Chapin III, D. C. Natcher, G. Kofinas, H. P. 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.
S. F. Trainor. (in press) Finding Common Ground: Moral Values and Cultural Identity in Early Conflict over the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. Journal of Land, Resources, and Environmental Law.
F. S. Chapin III, S. F. Trainor, O. Huntington, A. L. Lovecraft, E. Zavaleta, D. C. Natcher, A. D. McGuire, J. Nelson, L. Ray, M. Calef, N. Fresco, H. Huntington, T. S. Rupp, L. DeWilde, R. Naylor, 2008. Increasing Wildfire in Alaska’s Boreal Forest: Causes, Consequences, and Pathways to Potential Solutions of a Wicked Problem, 58:531-540. Bioscience.
S. F. Trainor, F.S Chapin III, H.P. Huntington, G. Kofinas, D.C. Natcher, 2007. Arctic Climate Impacts: Environmental Injustice in Canada and the United States. Local Environments: International Journal of Justice and Sustainability. 12:6, 627-643.
Natcher, D. C., M. Calef, O. Huntington, S. Trainor, H. P. Huntington, L. DeWilde, S. Rupp and F. Stuart Chapin III 2007. Factors Contributing to the Cultural and Spatial Variability of Landscape Burning by Native Peoples of Interior Alaska. Ecology and Society 12 (1): 7. [available on-line]
F. S. Chapin, III, A. L. Lovecraft, E. S. Zavaleta, J. Nelson, M. D. Robards, G. P. Kofinas, S. F. Trainor, G. Peterson, H. Huntington, R. L. 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, 103(45) (November 2006): 16637 – 16643.
H. P. Huntington, S. F. Trainor, D. C. Natcher, O. H. Huntington, L. DeWilde and F. Stuart Chapin III (2006) The Significance of Context in Community-Based Research: Understanding Discussions about Wildfire in Huslia, Alaska. Ecology and Society 11 (1): 40. [available on-line]
S.F. Trainor, 2006. Realms of Value: Conflicting Natural Resource Values and Incommensurability. Environmental Values, 15: 3-29.
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