ACEP discusses sustainable circumpolar North at Arctic Encounter 2025
August 13, 2025
More than 700 participants including policymakers, researchers, Indigenous leaders, artists and Arctic youth ambassadors from the circumpolar North gathered at the in Anchorage in August. The symposium featured discussions on policy, infrastructure and Indigenous sovereignty.
ACEP Chief Scientist Gwen Holdmann was among the speakers at the symposium. She served on a panel exploring how University of Alaska-based research, strategic partnerships and community engagement could nurture opportunities in key sectors such as energy, biomedicine, mariculture and agriculture.
Holdmann said that this was an opportunity to showcase some of the world-class research taking place at 51风流官网 and how it is directly relevant to Alaska鈥檚 communities and our economy.
Dominique Pride, a research associate professor and energy economist with ACEP, attended the symposium, making new connections and strengthening existing ones. She was excited to learn about an effort to build 3,000 new energy-efficient housing units over a decade in Nunavut, Canada, using a local labor force. She was also able to speak with Greenlanders and hopes to foster future research relationships there.