INDEX
Currently working on Community of Practice: Agent-Based Modelling for the Social Sciences (NSF # 0623162)
Arctic Water Resources Vulnerability Index (AWRVI).
Printable Brochure (Adobe file - Prints onto 11x14 Letter Paper)
Resilience Alliance
Santa Fe Institute
HARC Hydrology Project
Matt Nolan's EarthSLOT visualization tool
Complex Systems at UAA
Water & Environmental Research Center UAF
The Justice Center
ARCUS
National Science Foundation
Earthwatch Institute
Amaral Research Group
US Fish & Wildlife Service - Fisheries & Ecological Services
Publications
(†indicates equal contributing first authors)
- In Press and 2012
- Stevenson, K., Alessa, L., Kliskey, A. In press. Sustainable circumpolar agriculture: Alaska and beyond Part I. Food Security, History, and Current State. Arctic.
- Stevenson, K., Alessa, L., Altaweel, M., Kliskey, A., Krieger. K. 2012. Minding our methods: How choices of time scales, reference dates and statistical approaches can influence climate reports and policy. Environmental Science & Technology.
- Alessa, L., † Kliskey, A. 2012. The role of agent types in detecting and responding to environmental change. Human Organization 71(1): 1-10.
- Publications 2011
- Kliskey, A., Alessa, L. 2011. The role of fresh water in Alaska’s communities. In: North By 2020 – Perspectives on Alaska’s Changing Social-Ecological Systems. A. Lovecraft and H. Eicken. University of Chicago Press: Chicago, IL. Chapter 3.4.
- Tidwell, A., White, D, Kliskey, A. 2011. Planning for Change Alaska’s Water Resources. In: North By 2020 – Perspectives on Alaska’s Changing Social-Ecological Systems. A. Lovecraft and H. Eicken. University of Chicago Press: Chicago, IL. Chapter 3.5.
- The Hi’iaka Working Group (Alessa, L., Johnson, J., Kealiikanakaoleohaililani, K., Kingston, D., Kliskey, A., Louis, R., et al.). 2011. Indigenous knowledges driving technological innovation. AAPI Nexus Journal 9(1&2): 241-248.
- Mack, S., Mack, L., Alessa, L., Kliskey, A. 2011. The integration of digital terrain visualization in ethnography: The historic village of Belkofski, Alaska. Visual Anthropology 24(5): 455-467.
- Bone, C., Alessa, L., Altaweel, M., Kliskey, A., Lammers, R. 2011. Assessing the impacts of Local Knowledge and Technology on Climate Change Vulnerability in Remote Communities. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 8: 733-761. doi:10.3390/ijerph8030733.
- †Alessa, L., †Altaweel, M., †Kliskey, A., Bone, C., Schnabel, W., Stevenson, K. 2011. Water in Alaska: the next 50 years. Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 47(1):143-157. DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-1688.2010.00498.x.
- Publications 2010
- †Bone, C., †Alessa, L., †Kliskey, A., †Altaweel, M., 2010. The influence of statistical methods and reference dates on describing temperature changes in Alaska. Journal of Geophysical Research, VOL. 115, D19122, 12 PP., 2010 doi:10.1029/201 0JD014289.
- †Altaweel, M., †Alessa, L., † Kliskey, A. 2010. A framework to structure agent-based modeling data for social-ecological systems. Structure & Dynamics: eJournal of Anthropological and Related Sciences 4(1): 1-18.
- †Altaweel, M., †Alessa, L., † Kliskey, A. 2010. Visualizing situational data: applying information fusion for detecting social-ecological events. Social Science Computer Review 28(4). doi:10.1177/0894439309360837.
- Schweitzer, P., Alessa, L., Kliskey, A., Yamin-Pasternak, S. Livelihoods on thawing ground: relationships with water resources near the Bering Strait. Anthropology News, February 2010.
- Stevenson, K.T., Fitzsimmons, K.M., Clay, P.A., Alessa, L., Kliskey, A. 2010. Integration of aquaculture and arid lands agriculture for water reuse of and reduced fertilizer dependency. Experimental Agriculture 46(2): 183-190.
- †Altaweel, M., †Alessa, L., † Kliskey, A. 2010. Monitoring land use: capturing change through an information fusion approach. Sustainability 2(5), 1182-1203; doi:10.3390/su2051182.
- †Alessa, L., †Kliskey, A., Williams, P. 2010. Forgetting freshwater: The effect of modernization on water values in remote Arctic communities. Society and Natural Resources 23: 254-268.
- †Altaweel, M., †Alessa, L., and †Kliskey, A. 2010. Social influence and decision-making: evaluating agent networks in village responses to change in freshwater. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 13(1) 15.
- Alessa, L., Kliskey, A. 2010. The role of agent types in detecting and responding to environmental change. Resilience and Adaptive Management Group publication 2010(1).
- Publications 2009
- †Altaweel, M., †Alessa, L., † Kliskey, A. 2009. Forecasting resilience in arctic societies: creating tools for assessing social-hydrological systems. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 45(6): 1379-1389. DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-1688.2009.00370.x.
- †Alessa, L., †Kliskey, A., and Altaweel, M. 2009. Toward a typology of social-ecological systems. Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy 5, 31-41. <http://ejournal.nbii.org/archives/vol5iss1/0811-034.alessa.html>.
- Kliskey, A., Alessa, L, and Barr, B. 2009. Integrating local and traditional ecological knowledge for marine resilience. In: Managing for resilience: new directions for marine ecosystem-based management. K. McLeod and H. Leslie (eds.). Island Press Publishers. pp. 145–161.
- Publications 2008
- †Alessa, L., †Kliskey, A., Lammers, R., Arp, C., White, D., Busey, R., Hinzman, L. 2008. The Arctic water resources vulnerability index. Environmental Management 42, 523-541.
- Alessa, L., Chapin, F.S., and Kliskey, A. 2008. Anthropogenic biomes: a key contribution to earth-system science. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 23, 529-531.
- †Alessa, L., †Kliskey, A., White, D., Busey, B., Hinzman, L. 2008. Freshwater vulnerabilities and resilience on the Seward Peninsula as a consequence of landscape change. Global Environmental Change 18, 256-270.
- †Kliskey, A., †Alessa, L., Brown, G. 2008. Social-ecological Hotspots Mapping: a spatial approach for identifying coupled social-ecological space. Landscape and Urban Planning 85, 27-39.
- †Alessa, L., †Kliskey, A., Williams, P., White, D., Barton, M. 2008. Memory, water and resilience: Perception of change in freshwater resources in remote Arctic resource-dependent communities. Global Environmental Change 18, 153-164.
- †Janssen, M., †Alessa, L. and †Barton, M. 2008. Toward a Community Framework for Complexity Modeling in the Social Sciences. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 11(2)6 http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/11/2/6.html.
- Publications 2007
- †Alessa, L., †Kliskey, A., Williams, P. 2007. The distancing effect of modernization on the perception of water resources in Arctic communities. Polar Geography 30, 175-191.
- Chambers, M., White, D., Hinzman, L., Strang, E., Alessa, L., Kliskey, A. 2007. Potential impacts of a changing Arctic on freshwater resources on the Seward Peninsula. Journal of Geophysical Research 112, G04S52.
- White, D., Hinzman, L., Alessa, L., Kliskey, A. et al. 2007. The Arctic freshwater system: changes and impacts. Journal of Geophysical Research 112, G04S54.
- Publications 2006
- Alessa, L., Laituri, M. and Barton, M. 2006. 'An "All Hands" Call to the Social Science Community: Establishing a Community Framework for Complexity Modeling Using Agent Based Models and Cyberinfrastructure'. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 9(4)6-13.
- Ewers, R., Kliskey, A., Walker, S., Rutledge, D., Harding, J.S., Didham, R. 2006. Past and future trajectories of forest loss in New Zealand. Biological Conservation 133: 312-325.
- Eikaas, H, McIntosh, A., Kliskey, A. 2006. A critical review of some abiotic factors and their influence in structuring diadromous fish: new technologies, new advances, and a new variable. Transactions in GIS, 10: 469-483.
- Publications 2005
- Eikaas, H, Kliskey, A., McIntosh, A. 2005. Spatial modeling and habitat quantification for two diadromous fish in New Zealand streams: a GIS-based approach with application for conservation management. Environmental Management, 36: 726-740.
- Eikaas, H., McIntosh, Al, Kliskey, A. 2005. Catchment and site scale influences on presence of koaro (Galaxias brevipinnis Gunther) in New Zealand streams. Freshwater Biology, 50: 527-538.
- Publications 2004
- Kliskey, A.D., and Byrom, A.E. 2004. Development of a GIS-based methodology for quantifying predation risk in a spatial context. Transactions in GIS, 8, 13-22.
- Alessa, L., Kliskey, A., Robards, M. 2004. Ecological impacts of ecotourist visitation on macroalgal beds in Pacific Rim National Park Reserve. In. R. Buckley (ed.). Environmental Impacts of Ecotourism. CAB International; Wallingford, UK. pp. 349-360.
- Brown, G., Smith, C., Alessa, L., Kliskey, A. 2004. A comparison of perceptions of biological values with scientific assessment of biological importance. Applied Geography, 24, 161-180.
- Kliskey, A.D., Alessa, L., Robards, M. 2004. Extending the wilderness concept as a cultural resource. Wilderness and Wildness 2004: 297-293.
- Publications 2003
- Alessa, L., Bennett, S.M., Kliskey, A.D. 2003. Effects of knowledge, personal attribution and perception of ecosystem health on depreciative behaviours in the intertidal zone of Pacific Rim National Park and Reserve. Journal of Environmental Management, 68, 207-218.