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4. Nearly $150K to study how COVID and climate change affect fish in Alaska

Lankford’s report highlighted how, in February 2025, the National Endowment for the Humanities awarded nearly $150,000 to the Sealaska Heritage Institute to study how COVID-19 and climate change impact herring in Alaska. 

According to a description of the project in an NEH document outlining its grant awards and offers for January 2025, the goal was to create “an oral history archive with 17 semi-structured interviews and field observations to record the Indigenous knowledge of herring harvesters whose practices have been adversely affected by climate change and COVID-19 in southeast Alaska. A final report, peer-reviewed paper, presentations, and a short video would also result from this project.”

Samantha Kamman is a reporter for The Christian Post. She can be reached at: samantha.kamman@christianpost.com. Follow her on Twitter: @Samantha_Kamman

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