Negotiating Expertise in the Greenland Hazards Project

The Greenland Hazards Project (GHP) partners Earth scientists from the University of Colorado Boulder (CU) and Virginia Tech (VT) with community, science, and government collaborators in Greenland to address the interplay between evolving natural hazards, society and infrastructure in the changing climate of Greenland. The goal is to build capacity for geodesy, remote sensing and machine learning at Greenlandic institutions and in Greenlandic communities. The study involves a social science component based in communication studies that examines, 1) how GHP collaborators make sense of environmental risks and hazards impacting communities in Greenland, 2) how GHP collaborators give meaning to their role(s), values, and activities in decision-making processes, and 3) emergent barriers to science-community collaborations.