Phil Loring

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Philip A Loring, Ph.D.
Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy
Institute for Northern Engineering and
The Center for Cross Cultural Studies
University of Alaska Fairbanks
ploring@alaska.edu

PO Box 755910
Fairbanks, AK 99775
(907) 474-7163

About Phil

Dr. Philip Loring is a human ecologist with research interests in food systems, food security, environmental change, and environmental justice. His research is interdisciplinary in nature, integrating methods and perspectives from ecology, anthropology, geography, ethnobiology, and environmental history. His current research focus for the Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy (ACCAP) is on coastal and marine resources in Alaska, including such topics as fisheries management, food sharing, and food insecurity in rural as well as urban settings.

Education

• 2010 Ph.D. Indigenous Studies, Center for Cross Cultural Studies and the Resilience and Adaptation Program, University of Alaska Fairbanks, (05/10) 4.0 GPA. Dissertation title: "Ways to Help and Ways to Hinder: Climate. Health, and Food Security in Alaska."
• 2007 M.A. Anthropology, University of Alaska Fairbanks (05/07), 4.0 GPA. Thesis title: "Coming out of the Foodshed: Change and Innovation in Rural Alaskan Food Systems."
• 2005 B.A. Liberal Studies with a concentration in Philosophy, Minor in Classic Studies; Florida Atlantic University, 3.2 GPA

Academic Positions

• 2010-present Research Assistant Professor, Institute for Northern Engineering, UAF. Affiliate Faculty, Center for Cross Cultural Studies, UAF.
• 2010 (spring) Instructor, Ecological Anthropology, ANTH 428.
• 2009 (fall) Co-Instructor, Comparative Farming Systems and Food Security, ANTH 492/692. Shared teaching duties with S.C. Gerlach.
• 2008 (spring) Instructor, Sustainability in Small-scale Societies, ANTH 492
• 2007 (spring) Co-Instructor, Comparative Farming Systems and Food Security, ANTH 492/692. Shared teaching, class planning, and grading duties with S.C. Gerlach.
• 2007 (fall) Teaching Assistant, with discussion session (graduate level), Regional Sustainability, NRM/BIOL/ANTH 647. Instructors F.S. Chapin III, S.C. Gerlach, and J. Greenberg.
• 2006 (spring) Co-Instructor, Ecological Anthropology, ANTH 428 Shared teaching, class planning, and grading duties, instructor S.C. Gerlach.

Other Past Positions

• 2002-2005 Team Leader, Senior Programmer/Analyst, Gambro Healthcare Laboratory Services. Fort Lauderdale, FL.
• 2001-2002 Chief Information Officer, Encryptek, LLC. Deerfield, FL.
• 1997-2001 Senior Programmer and Team Leader, ICN, Ltd. West Palm Beach, FL.

Research Grants

• 2010 (in review) Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy (RENEWAL). $3.5M.
• 2010 (in review) Regional Assessments of Vulnerability and Food Security (new proposal. NOAA Climate Program Office. $300,000.
• 2010 Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy Mini-grants. $16,000. "Marine Species Range Extension and Invasives in Northern Alaskan Waters (MARINA)"
• 2008 United Nations Environmental Program/GRID-Arendal. $1,200. "Human Dimensions of Climate Change Literature Review."
• 2007-08 Whatcom Museum Society's Jacobs Research Fund Individual Research Grant. $3,000. "Country Foods in Alaska"
• 2006-08 USDA Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (WSARE GW07-013). $10,400 "Community gardening in rural Alaska"

Peer Reviewed Publications

• 2010 P.A. Loring, and SC Gerlach. Are we asking too much of the Yukon River? Sustainability 9(2): 2965-2987.
• In Press P.A. Loring, SC Gerlach, D. Atkinson, and M.S. Murray. Ways to Help and Ways to Hinder: policy for sustainability and conservation in a changing climate. Arctic.
• In Press M.A. MacNeil, N. Graham, J. Cinner, N. Dulvy, P.A. Loring, A. Fisk, S. Jennings,T. McClanahan, N. Polunin. Transitional states in marine fisheries: adapting to cope with global change. For Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.
• 2010 P.A. Loring. L.K. Duffy, and M.S. Murray. A Risk-Benefit Analysis of Wild Fish Consumption for Various Species in Alaska Reveals Shortcomings in Data, Monitoring Needs. Science of the Total Environment. 408(20): 4532-4541.
• 2010 P.A. Loring and S.C. Gerlach. Outpost Agriculture: Food System Innovation in Rural Alaskan Communities. Ethnohistory 57(2):183-199
• 2009 D.V. Fazzino and P.A. Loring. From Crisis to Cumulative Effects: Food Security in Rural and Urban Alaska. National Association for the Practice of Anthropology (NAPA) Bulletin 32:152-177
• 2009 P.A. Loring and S.C. Gerlach. Food, Culture, and Human Health in Alaska: An integrative health approach to food security. Environmental Science and Policy 12(4):466-478
• 2008 P.A. Loring, F.S. Chapin III and S.C. Gerlach. The Services-Oriented Architecture: Ecosystem services as a framework for the diagnosis of outcomes in Social Ecological Systems. Ecosystems. 11(3): 478-489
• 2007 P.A. Loring. The Most Resilient Show on Earth: The circus as a model for viewing sustainability, identity and change. Ecology and Society 12(1):9
• 2007 Daniel White, S.C. Gerlach and Amy C. Tidwell and P.A. Loring. Surface water, arctic peoples, and ecosystems in a changing climate. Environmental Research Letters 2:4

Book Chapters and Sections

• In Press P.A. Loring. BOX: Food Security and Human Health in Alaska. In Global Environmental Change and Food Security. P. Ericksen, Editor.
• In Review Gerlach, S. C., P.A. Loring, A. Turner, and D. Atkinson. Environmental Change, Food Systems, and Community Needs, in North by 2020, A. Lovecraft, Editor.

Reports

2008 Main, Heather, Joan Eamer, Tina Kurvits, Katherine I Johnsen, and P.A. Loring. 2008. Arctic Climate Impact Science - an update since ACIA, edited by M. Sommerkorn and N. Hamilton. Oslo, Norway: WWF International Arctic Programme.

Publications in Review

n.d. K. Dunlap, L.K. Duffy, P.A. Loring, and S.C. Gerlach. Lipid profiles in subsistence fed sled dogs along the Yukon River. For Polar Record.

As Editor

• In Prep S.C. Gerlach and P.A. Loring, eds. Nunamiulu Amaguglu: Nunamiut and Wolves; local knowledge from the inland Inupiat of northern Alaska. The Alaska Native Knowledge Network, University of Alaska Press, Fairbanks.
• 2005 S.C. Gerlach and P.A. Loring, eds. Anthropological Papers of the University of Alaska, New Series 4(1).

Book Reviews

• 2010 S.C. Gerlach and P.A. Loring. Book Review: Learning Native Wisdom by Gary Holthaus. Northern Review. 32:191-195

Ester Republic Columnist

• "The Egg Safety Final Rule" Outpost Agriculture September 2010
• "When it rains... Salt use and abuse in modern food systems" Outpost Agriculture June 2010
• "What's the point of local food?" Outpost Agriculture May 2010
• "Are Vegetarians Green?" Outpost Agriculture April 2010
• "Red Hot Dogs and Red Herrings" Outpost Agriculture March 2010
• "Not of the Same Order" Outpost Agriculture January 2010
• "Now What? The Seven Myths of Industrial Agriculture, Part 1" Outpost Agriculture November 2009
• "Smart Choices" Outpost Agriculture October 2009
• "Deus Ex Machina" Outpost Agriculture September 2009
• "The Future of Wild Game, Part 2-Retraction" Outpost Agriculture July 2009
• "Four-dollar Latte" Outpost Agriculture June 2009
• "Eating Alaska (Review)" Outpost Agriculture May 2009
• "No Chicken Left Behind" Outpost Agriculture April 2009
• "Defining our Food Future" Outpost Agriculture March 2009
• "Where our Food Comes From" Outpost Agriculture January 2009
• "Incidents in Travel in Sonora, Part 2: Winter Gardening" Outpost Agriculture December 2008
• "Incidents in Travel in Sonora, Part 1: Migrant Farmers, Immigration policy, and Fair Trade" Outpost Agriculture November 2008.
• "Fair Share" Outpost Agriculture September 2009
• "Fair Fare" Outpost Agriculture August 2008
• "Garden Variety" Outpost Agriculture July 2008
• "An Ode to Ye Olde Cookbook" Outpost Agriculture June 2008
• "Di - et (dī ´ ə t) ► n. One's usual food and drink. " Outpost Agriculture May 2008
• "A Food System Perspective on Flouride" Outpost Agriculture April 2008
• "Self Reliance, Part 3" Barter and Gold April 2008
• "Self Reliance, Part 2" Outpost Agriculture March 2008
• "Handle with Care" Outpost Agriculture February 2008
• "Switch, Part 2" Outpost Agriculture January 2008
• "Self Reliance, Part 1" Barter and Gold January 2008

Conferences Chaired Sessions

• 2011 "The future of coastal and marine living resources: changes, vulnerabilities, and opportunities." Resilience 2011, Phoenix, AZ (accepted). With Joshua Cinner.
• 2010 "Establishing Priorities for Mitigation and Adaptation and Evaluating Solutions." State of the Arctic 2010. 16-19 March, 2010. Miami, FL. With Amy Tidwell.
• 2008 "The Future of Northern Food Systems." 2008 meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Arctic Division. Fairbanks, AK. With S. Craig Gerlach.

Conferences Contributed Presentations

• 2010 Are We Asking Too Much of the Yukon River? State of the Arctic 2010. 16-19 March, 2010. Miami, FL.
• 2009 Communities of Change or Communities of Health? 9th Annual ACUNS Student Conference on Northern Studies and Polar Regions. Whitehorse, YT, Canada.
• 2009 Ways to Help and Ways to Hinder. S.C. Gerlach, and D. Atkinson, co-authors. 2009 meeting of the Inland Northwest Research Alliance, Fairbanks, AK.
• 2008 Social Epidemiology and Climate Change. S.C. Gerlach, and L.K. Duffy, co-authors. 2008 Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Arctic Division , Fairbanks, AK.
• 2008 Coming into the Foodshed. S.C. Gerlach, co-author. 2008 Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Arctic Division, Fairbanks, AK
• 2008 Climate change, surface water, and food security in Alaska. 2008 International Conference on Food Security, Oxford, England.
• 2008 Scale and food system resilience. A speed talk given at Resilience 2008, Stockholm
• 2007 Country Foods, Health and Nutrition in Changing Alaskan Ecosystems. Presentation made to the 2nd annual Alaska Biomedical Conference, Fairbanks, AK
• 2007 Outpost Gardening in Interior Alaska. Paper presented at the 2007 meeting of the Alaska Anthropological Association, Fairbanks, AK.
• 2007 The Impacts of Climate Change on Rural Food Systems and Health. Presentation made to the 2007 Alaska Health Summit. Anchorage, AK.
• 2006 Traditional Knowledge and the Copyleft. Paper presented at the 2006 meeting of the International Symposium on Society and Resource Management. Vancouver, BC.

Conferences Presentations as Co-author

• 2010 S.C. Gerlach and P.A. Loring. Rural and Alaska Native Food Systems. Alaska Food Policy Council meeting. May 18-19. Anchorage, AK.
• 2010 D.V. Fazzino, P.A. Loring, and R. Garcia (group presentation). Community Supported Agriculture in Fairbanks, AK: A Study. Colloquium presentation for the University of Alaska Fairbanks Anthropology Colloquium Series. May 6. Fairbanks, AK
• 2010 S.C. Gerlach and P.A. Loring. Are we asking too much of the Yukon River? 2010 meeting of the American Geophysical Union. San Francisco. Presented by S.C. Gerlach
• 2009 S.C. Gerlach and P.A. Loring. Coming to terms with the future of Northern Food Systems. "Evenings at Egan" lecture series, University of Alaska Southeast. Juneau, AK. Presented by S.C. Gerlach
• 2008 S.C. Gerlach and P.A. Loring. Coming to terms with the future of Northern Food Systems. 2008 Arctic Forum, Washington DC. Presented by S.C. Gerlach

Conferences Posters

• 2010 From Crisis to Cumulative Effects: Food Security in Rural and Urban Alaska. P. Loring and D. Fazzino, co-authors. State of the Arctic 2010, 16-19 March, 2010. Miami FL.
• 2009 Ways to Help and Ways to Hinder. S.C. Gerlach, and D. Atkinson, co-authors. 2009 meeting of the Inland Northwest Research Alliance, Fairbanks, AK.
• 2008 P.A. Loring, S.C. Gerlach, and T. Paragi. Large Scale Changes, Small-Scale Livelihoods. A Poster displayed at the 2008 Arctic Forum, Washington DC.
• 2007 Climate Change and Rural Alaskan Food Systems. A poster displayed at the 2007 Alaska Forum on the Environment, Anchorage AK.

Conferences Workshops

• 2010 "Natural Indicators of Yukon River Salmon" Invited participant in a steering workshop held by the Yukon River Drainage Fisheries Association (YRDFA). 11 May, 2010.
• 2007 "The Resilience of Indigenous Communities. Invited participant in a planning workshop held at the Resilience 2008 meeting, Stockholm, Sweden.
• 2006 Participating researcher, Emmonak town meeting to address beaver overpopulation. Organized by the Yukon River Intertribal Watershed Council
• 2006 Participating researcher, The Alaska-Africa connection: A special multi-day session of the 2006 American Association for the Advancement of Science, Arctic Sciences Conference.

Fellowships And Awards

• 2010 Nominated by UAF to the International Council of Graduate Schools Distinguished Dissertation Award.
• 2008-2009 Colorado River Delta Research Coordination Network Exchange Visitor Scholarship. $1,000
• 2008-2009 Fulbright Graduate Fellowship, Sweden. Admitted by the Fulbright Commission but had to decline the award for personal reasons.
• 2008 Robert Laurus Award, AAAS Arctic Division, for best presentation. "Social Epidemiology and Climate Change"
• 2007-2010 Resilience and Adaptation Program PhD Fellowship, an NSF IGERT. http://www.rap.uaf.edu $30k/year for 2 years.
• 2007 Editor's Pick 2007. Ester Republic. August, 2007: "Chicken one day, feathers the next"
• 2006 Resilience and Adaptation Program MA Summer Fellowship. $8,000.

Media Coverage

• 2009 Landis, C. and J. Fries-Gaither. Fruitful Collaboration: Western Science and Native Ways of Knowing. Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears. 16(October). Available Online [url: http://beyondpenguins.nsdl.org/issue/column.php?date=October2009&departmentid=field&columnid=field!researcher]
• 2009 Interviewed by Fort Yukon Public Radio. August 18.
• 2008 Interviewed by Alaska Public Radio Network. "NOAA tries to make sense of changing climate." June 2004. Available Online: [url: http://aprn.org/2008/06/24/noaa-tries-to-make-sense-of-changing-climate/ ]
• 2008 Lempinen, E. Scientists Link Climate, Energy to Growing Arctic "Food Insecurity". Science 322(5902):696.
• 2008 Lempinen, E. AAAS - AAAS News Release - "Researchers at AAAS Arctic Division Meeting Link Climate, Energy to 'Food Insecurity' " Available Online [url: http://www.aaas.org/news/releases/2008/1110arctic_food.shtml]
• 2008 Interviewed by Juneau Public Radio. Topic: Food security in Alaska. September 5.

Solicited Publication Reviews

• Agriculture and Human Values
• Geographical Journal
• International Journal of Circumpolar Health
• New Phytologist
• Journal of Systems and Software
• Anthropological Papers of the University of Alaska, New Series.

Other Reviews

• Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)'s Antarctic Climate Change and the Environment (ACCE) Report (2009)
• International Study of Arctic Change (ISAC) 2009 Science Plan.

Public Service

• 2007-2008 Board President, Calypso Farm and Ecology Center. http://www.calypsofarm.org
• 2006-2008 Board member, Calypso Farm and Ecology Center. http://www.calypsofarm.org
• 2005-2007 Founding board member, Los Amigos de Chocolá.http://www.amigosdechocola.org
• 2006-2007 Steering Committee Member, the 2007 Sustainable Agriculture for Alaska Conference

Professional Societies And Associations

• American Fisheries Society; American Anthropological Association; American Geophysical Union
• Resilience Alliance of Young Scholars, nominated member, January 2008; Association of Polar Early Career Scientists

Field Experience

• 2009-10 Yukon River Salmon Management. Interviews with state and federal fisheries managers as well as local subsistence and commercial fishers during the 2009 and 2010 salmon fishing seasons.
• 2008-9 Social Vulnerability of Alaska's Coastal Communities. David Atkinson, P.I. Needs assessment interviews in Alaska's coastal fishing communities. Villages included Dutch Harbor (Unalaska), Togiak, Emmonak, Juneau, Homer, Seward.
• 2008 La Cienega de Santa Clara. Francisco Zamora, P.I. Participant observation with the Ejido farming cooperative living proximate to the largest wetland in Sonora, MX.
• 2005-8 Tanana Valley Agriculture. P.A. Loring, P.I. Participant observation, directed interviews within the smallholder agricultural community of Interior Alaska.
• 2006-7 Minto, Alaska; Fort Yukon, AK. S. Craig Gerlach, PhD., P.I. Participant observation, directed interviews, and recording of oral histories with a native Athabascan community.
• 2005 Chocolá, Guatemala. Jonathan Kaplan, PhD., P.I. Archaeology field and laboratory duties at a Preclassic Maya site.

Research Tools

• SPSS; SAS; Familiarity with uni- and multivariate statistics (e.g. ANOVA, PCA), categorial data analysis, etc. Skill Level: Intermediate
• Programming/scripting (e.g., perl, java, database management) Skill Level: Advanced
• ArcGIS, Skill Level: Beginner
• Atlas.ti; QDAminer (mixed qual/quant); Skill Level: Intermediate
• Wilderness First Aid Certification, American Safety and Heath Institute - 11/2009

Additional Languages

• Spanish Intermediate spoken, beginner written
• Ancient Greek Beginner reader
• Ancient Mayan Beginner reader