A Great Bend High School Alum, Alexis Reed, along with 17 other students and faculty from four National Science Foundation Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship programs recently met in Juneau, Ak., for a workshop titled Understanding Rapid Environmental and Social Change in the Arctic: Bridging Traditional Knowledge and Interdisciplinary Science Across IGERTs.The four IGERT programs were Climate Change, Humans and Nature in the Global Environment, University of Kansas and Haskell Indian Nations University; Resilience and Adaptation Program, University of Alaska-Fairbanks; Marine Ecosystem Sustainability in the Arctic and Subarctic, University of Alaska-Fairbanks; and Polar Environmental Change, Dartmouth College.The workshop, held March 22-24, focused on creating a dialogue across disciplines and cultures and bridged information gained from scientific research and local traditions to address these questions: What are the critical dimensions of ecosystem and social system change in the Arctic? How are Arctic natural and human worlds connected? How do we identify and implement adaptive and sustainable responses to rapid change?