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Donna D.W. Hauser, Ph.D., is a Research Associate Professor at the International Arctic Research Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks where she pursues interdisciplinary and collaborative research in marine ecology. She grew up on Dena’ina lands in Anchorage, AK, and is a mother, wife, and daughter with a deep passion for Alaska’s people, places, and wildlife. Her diverse research portfolio is centered on the roles and responses of marine wildlife, but also the people who rely on them, in rapidly changing Arctic marine ecosystems. Dr. Hauser increasingly works at the social-ecological interface through partnerships with Tribal organizations and Indigenous coastal communities across northern Alaska to examine intersecting issues of recent sea ice loss affecting marine mammal habitat, changing access and availability of traditional marine resources for Indigenous hunters, and opportunities to elevate community-driven research partnerships to track and respond to Arctic environmental change. She is the science lead for the long-term and community-based (AAOKH), working to bridge Indigenous and Scientific Knowledge in a number of actionable science goals in coastal Arctic Alaska. (Donna terms off the Alaska Board in Fall 2031.)