Reports:

• TUNDRA: Land use and subsistence in the Arctic
• Wildlife management in Alaska: a rural perspective
• TUNDRA: Community dynamics and trust in Alaska
• TUNDRA: Attitudes and opinions about mining in the Arctic

Papers in Peer Reviewed Journals

● Schmidt J.I., Ziel R., Calef M., Varvak A. (in prep) Wildfire risk assessment in the Urban Arctic. Fire.
● Watson B., Schmidt, J.I. and Berman M. (under review) Capitalization of Bundled Amenities and Hazards in Home Prices: The Case of Wildfire Exposure in Southcentral Alaska. International Journal of Wildland Fire.
● Farquharson L., Nicolsky D., Varvak A., Calef M., Schmidt J.I., and Romanovksy R.A. (under review) Ground ice map and infrastructure assessment for an area of discontinuous permafrost in central Alaska.
● Schmidt J.I. and Berman M. (2024) Avoid getting burned: lessons from the McKinley wildfire in rural Alaska, International Journal of Wildland Fire, 33,
https://doi.org/10.1071/WF24014
● Wilber M.M. and Schmidt J.I. (2024) Knowledge is power: Electric vehicle calculator for cold climates. Fuel Communications, 20, 100124.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfueco.2024.100124
● Schwoerer T., Martin A.E., Schmidt J.I. (2024) Human-connected wild lands: how network analysis can inform biodiversity conservation, Biological Conservation, 299, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110797
● Jordan-Ward R., von Hippel F.A., Schmidt, J.I. and Verhougstraete M.P. (2024) Formerly used defense sites on Unalaska Island, Alaska: Mapping a legacy of environmental pollution. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management, 20 (5) 1420-1431. https://doi.org/10.1002/ieam.4902
● Schmidt J.I., Calef M., Varvak A., and Ziel R. (2024) Spatial Distribution of Wildfire Threat in the Far North: Exposure Assessment in Boreal Communities. Natural Hazards, 120, 4901–4924. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-023-06365-4
● Schwoerer T., Schmidt J.I., Berman M. Bienik P., Farquharson L.M, Nicolsky D., Powell J., Roberts R., Thoman R., Ziel R. (2024) Nordic homeowners’ mitigation response to multi-hazard climate risk. Ambio, 53, 389–405 https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-023-01951-z
● Waloven S., Kapsar K., Schwoerer T., Berman M., Schmidt J.I., Vina A., Liu J.G. (2023) Global gateways as telecoupled human and natural systems: The emerging case of the Bering Strait. Ambio, 52, 1040–1055 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-023-01835-2
● Calef M.P., Schmidt J.I., Varvak A., and Ziel R. (2023) Predicting the Unpredictable: Predicting Landcover in Boreal Alaska and the Yukon Including Succession and Wildfire Potential. Forests, 14(8), 1577. https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/14/8/1577
● Cueva, K., Schmidt J.I. (2023) Cancer Education for High School Students in the Northwest Arctic Increases Knowledge and Inspires Intent to Share Information and Reduce Cancer Risk. Journal of Cancer Education. doi:10.1007/s13187-023-02269-w
● Waloven, S., Kapsar, K., Schwoerer, T., Berman, M., Schmidt J. I., Vina, A., & Liu, J. G. (2023) Global gateways as telecoupled human and natural systems: The emerging case of the Bering Strait. Ambio. doi:10.1007/s13280-023-01835-2
● Rashedin M., Johnson B., Dev S., Whitney E., Schmidt J.I., Madden D., Aggarwal S. (2022) Rural Alaska Water Treatment and Distribution Systems Incur High Energy Costs: Identifying Energy Drivers Using Panel Data Analysis for 78 Communities. Acs Es&T Water 2, 2668-2676.
● Khan Z, Abraham E, Aggarwal S, Ahmad Khan M, Arguello R, Babbar-Sebens M, et al. Schmidt J., (2022) Emerging Themes and Future Directions of Multi-Sector Nexus Research and Implementation. Frontiers in Environmental Science 10, https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2022.918085
● Schmidt J.I., Huntington, H.P, Whitney E., Huang D., Wies R.W. Jr., Aggarwal S., (2022) From Metrics to Action: A Framework for Identifying the Limiting Factors, Underlying Causes, and Possible Solutions in Food-Energy-Water Security. Frontier in Climate: Climate Law and Policy 4(903855) https://doi.org/10.3389/fclim.2022.903855
● Schmidt J.I., Huntington, H.P, Whitney E., Huang D., Wies R.W. Jr., Aggarwal S., (2022) A framework for assessing food-energy-water security: a FEW case studies from rural Alaska. Science of the Total Environment 821 (153355) DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.153355
● Schwoerer T., Dial R.J., Little J.M., Martin A.E., Morton J.M., Schmidt J.I., et al. (2022) Flight plan for the future: floatplane pilots and researchers team up to predict invasive species dispersal in Alaska. Biological Invasions, DOI: 10.1007/s10530-021-02712-3
● Schmidt J.I., Monz C., and Hausner V. (2021) Building adaptive capacity in a changing Arctic by use of technology. Ecology and Society.
https://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol26/iss4/art1/
● Berman M., Schmidt J. I., and Kofinas, G. (2021) Adaptive capacity and resilient communities: theory and evidence from Alaska’s North Slope. Ecology and Society, Vol 26:3 https://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol26/iss3/art22/
● Cueva K., Schmidt J.I., and Cueva M. (2021) Learning Together: Sharing Circles in Rural Alaska on Cancer Education Priorities for Youth. Journal of Cancer Education. Jul 27: 1–8. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8314025/
● Huntington H.P., Schmidt J.I., Loring P.A., Whitney E., Aggarwal S., Byrd A.G., Dev S., Dotson A.D., Huang D., Johnson B., Karenzi J., Penn H.J.F., Salmon A., Sambor D.J., Schnabel W.E., Wies R.W. Jr, and Wilber M. (2021) Applying the food–energy–water nexus concept at the local scale. Nature Sustainability https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-021-00719-1
● Bhatt, U. Lader R.T., Bieniek P.A., Walsh J.E., Thoman R., Berman M., Borries-Strigle C., Kulock K., Chriest J., Hahn M., Hendricks A., Jain P., Jandt R., Little J, Moore C., Rupp T.S., Schmidt J.I., Stevens E., Strader E., York A., Ziel R. (2021) Emerging Anthropogenic Influences on the Southcentral Alaska Temperature and Precipitation Extremes and Related Fires in 2019. Land 10(1), 82; https://doi.org/10.3390/land10010082
● Schmidt, J.I, Byrd, A., Curl, J., Brinkman, T.J., and Heeringa, K. (2021) Stoking the flame: subsistence and wood energy in rural Alaska, United States. Energy Research & Social Science: 71. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2020.101819.
● Hahn, M.B, Kemp C., Ward-Waller C., Donovan D., Schmidt J.I., and Bauer S. (2020) Collaborative climate mitigation and adaptation planning with university, community, and municipal partners: a case study in Anchorage, Alaska, Local Environment, DOI:10.1080/13549839.2020.1811655
● Schwoerer, T., Schmidt J. I., and Holen, D. (2020) Predicting the Food-Energy Nexus of Wild Food Systems: Informing Energy Transitions for Isolated Indigenous Communities. Ecological Economics 176:106712. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2020.106712
● Berman M., Loeffler B. and Schmidt J.I. (2020) Long-Term Benefits to Indigenous Communities of Extractive Industry Partnerships: Evaluating the Red Dog Mine. Resources Policy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resourpol.2020.101609
● Schwoerer, T. Little, J. Schmidt, J.I., and Borash, K. (2019) Hitchhikers on floats to Arctic freshwater: Private aviation and recreation loss from aquatic invasion. Ambio:49(8):1364-1376. doi.org/10.1007/s13280-019-01295-7
● Sisneros-Kidd, A.M., Monz, C., Hausner, V., Schmidt, J.I., and Clark, D. (2019) Nature-based tourism, resource dependence, and resilience of Arctic communities: Framing complex issues in a changing environment. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 27 (8). https://doi.org/10.1080/09669582.2019.1612905
● Whitney, E. Schnabel, W.E., Aggarwal, S., Huang, D., Wies, R.W., Karenzi, J., Huntington, H.P., Schmidt, J.I., and Dotson, A.D. (2019) MicroFEWs – A Food-Energy-Water (FEW) Systems Approach to Renewable Energy Decisions in Islanded Microgrid Communities in Rural Alaska. Environmental Engineering Science, 36 (7) https://doi.org/10.1089/ees.2019.0055
● Berman M. and Schmidt J.I. (2019) Economic effects of climate change in Alaska. Weather, Climate and Society. 11(2): 245-2583 https://doi.org/10.1175/WCAS-D-18-0056.1
● Schmidt J.I., Clark D., Lokken N., Lankshear J., Hausner V. (2018) The Role of Trust in Sustainable Management of Land, Fish, and Wildlife Populations in the Arctic. Sustainability, 10(9), 3124; https://doi.org/10.3390/su10093124
● Fauchald P., Hausner V.H., Schmidt J.I., and Clark D.A. (2017) Transitions of social-ecological subsistence systems in the Arctic. International Journal of the Commons, 11.
● Schmidt J.I., Kellie K.A. and Chapin III F.S (2015) Detecting, estimating, and correcting for biases in harvest data: moose hunting in Alaska. Journal of Wildlife Management, 79:1152-1162.
● Schmidt J.I., Aanesen M., Klokov K., Khrutschev S., and Hausner V.H. (2015) Demographic and economic disparities among Arctic regions. Polar Geography. dx.doi.org/10.1080/1088937X.2015.1065926
● Beaman J., Vaske J., Schmidt J.I., and Huan T.C. (2015) Measuring and correcting response heaping arising from the use of prototypes. Human Dimensions of Wildlife, 20:167-173.
● Schmidt J.I. and Chapin III F.S. (2014) Relationship of Community Characteristics to Harvest Reporting: Comparative Study of Household Surveys and Harvest Tickets in Alaska. Human Dimensions of Wildlife 19:334-346.
● Gustine D., Brinkman T., Lindgren M., Schmidt J.I., Rupp T., and Adams L. (2014) Simulated climate-driven effects of fire on winter habitat for migratory tundra caribou in the Alaskan-Yukon Arctic. PLOS ONE, 9:1-11.
● Feng Z., Alfaro-Murillo J.A., DeAngelis D.L., Schmidt J.I., Barga M., Zheng Y., Ahmad Tamrin M.H.B, Olson M., Glaser, T., Kielland K., Chapin III, F.S., and Bryant, J. (2012) Plant toxins and trophic cascades alter fire regime and succession on a boreal forest landscape.
Ecological Modeling, 244:79-92.
● Kofinas G.P., Chapin F.S. III, BurnSilver S., Schmidt J.I., Fresco N.L., Kielland K., Martin S., Springsteen A., Rupp T.S. (2010) Resilience of Athabascan subsistence systems to Interior Alaska’s changing climate. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 41:1347-1359.
● Schmidt J.I., Hundertmark K.J., Bowyer R.T., and McCracken K.G. (2009) Population structure and genetic diversity of moose in Alaska. Journal of Heredity, 100:170-180.
● Schmidt J.I., Ver Hoef J.M., and Bowyer R.T. (2007) Antler size of Alaskan moose: effects of population density, hunter harvest, and use of guides. Wildlife Biology, 13:53-65.
● Schmidt J.I., Ver Hoef J.M., Maier J.A.K., and Bowyer R.T. (2005) Catch per unit effort for moose: a new approach using Weibull regression. Journal of Wildlife Management, 69:1112-1124.

Talks and Posters

● Numerous Community Council Meetings in Anchorage (> 24), “Wildfire Hazard Assessment and Modeling”, 2020 – present
● Alaska Fire Science Consortium Webinar, “Wildfire Risk Assessment in Alaska”, November 21, 2024
● US Forest Service, “Alaska Wildfire Exposure Assessment and Fuels Planning in R10”, Anchorage, AK, October 15, 2024
● Kenai All Hands All Lands, “A Novel Approach to Wildfire Structure Risk in Alaska and Data Delivery”, April 2024
● Alaska Wildlife Society, “Immediate Effects of Wildfire on Moose Harvest”, with Todd Brinkman as lead, Anchorage, AK, March 2024
● Alaska Fuels Management Committee, “SAFRR: Socio-ecological considerations for sustainAble Fuel treatments to Reduce wildfire Risk”, February 2024
● Interior Fire Chiefs, “Wildfire Exposure”, Fairbanks, AK, January 2024
● Alaska Fuels Management Committee, “Statewide Exposure and Fuels Treatment Webmap”, Anchorage, AK, February 2024
● Alaska Marine Science Symposium, “Hotspot Analysis of Bering Sea and Strait Vessel Traffic in IMO ‘Areas to be Avoided”, with Bella Block as lead, Anchorage, AK, January 2024
● American Geophysical Union, “Is Wildfire Management a Moral Hazard Impeding Community Resilience?”, with Matt Berman as lead, , American Geophysical Institute, San Francisco, CA, December 2023
● American Geophysical Union, “Advancing Wildfire Preparedness and Planning in Anchorage: community-engaged egress planning”, San Francisco, CA, December 2023
● American Geophysical Union, “Wildfire risk assessment in the Arctic: the challenge of sprawl”, San Francisco, CA, December 2023
● American Geophysical Union, “Wildfire Management a Moral Hazard Impeding Fire
Resilience? Investigating the Spatial Mismatch Between Expenditures and Finance”, with Matt Berman as lead, San Francisco, CA, December 2023
● American Geophysical Union, “Hazard mapping in the discontinuous permafrost zone of Fairbanks, Alaska, USA”, San Francisco, CA, December 2023
● American Geophysical Union, “Is Wildfire Management a Moral Hazard Impeding Fire Resilience? Investigating the Spatial Mismatch Between Expenditures and Finance in the Wildland-Urban-Interface of Alaska's Boreal Forest” with Matt Berman as lead, San Francisco, CA, December 2023
● American Geophysical Union, “Predicting Future Landcover in Interior Alaska Based on a Refined ABoVE Landcover, Fire Modeling With FlamMap, and Succession Rules” with Monika Calef as lead, San Francisco, CA, December 2023
● American Geophysical Union, “Hazard mapping in the discontinuous permafrost zone of Fairbanks, Alaska, USA”, with Louise Farquharson as lead, San Francisco, CA, December 2023
● American Geophysical Union, “Increasing multi-hazard climate risk and financial and health impacts on northern homeowners”, with Toby Schwoerer as lead, San Francisco, CA, December 2023
● Alaska Fall and Spring Wildfire Operations, “SAFRR: Socio-ecological considerations for sustainAble Fuel treatments to Reduce wildfire Risk”, March and October, 2023
● Wildfire Exposure Assessment for Mixed Conifer and Deciduous Forest Landscapes, October 2023, Invited speaker for LANDFIRE Open Office Hours through The Nature Conservancy
● Alaska Tree Forum, “Wildfire Hazards and Modeling”, October 2023
● Anchorage Tree Forum, “Wildfire Exposure”, Anchorage, AK, September 2023
● Alaska Forum on the Environment, “Electric Vehicles: Charging up Across Alaska”, March 2023
● 6th European Conference on Permafrost, “Hazard mapping in the discontinuous permafrost zone of Fairbanks, Alaska, USA” with Louise Farquharson lead, Puigcerdà, Catalonia, Spain, June 2023
● Alaska Society of American Foresters, “SAFRR: Socio-ecological considerations for sustainAble Fuel treatments to Reduce wildfire Risk”, May 2023
● American Geophysical Union, “McKinley Wildfire: Socio-ecological Factors and Structure Survival in a Rural WUI Area”, Chicago, IL, December 2022
● American Geophysical Union, “Winter Rain, Surface Icing, and Urban Transportation Hazards: Using Weather Station Data and Traffic Networks to Map Evolving Icing Hazards and Travel Risks in Anchorage, Alaska”, with Matt Berman as lead, Chicago, IL, December 2022
● American Geophysical Union, “Spatial Distribution of Wildfire Threat in the Far North: Exposure Assessment in Boreal Communities”, Chicago, IL, December 2022
● American Geophysical Union, “The 2019 McKinley Fire in South-Central Alaska: burn severity and fire effects from high-resolution aerial imaging spectroscopy”, with Chris Waigl as lead, Chicago, IL, December 2022
● Alaska Spring Wildfire Operations, “Wildfire Exposure”, March 25, 2022
● Faculty Research & Creative Activity Seminar, “Preparing for Disasters: natural hazards in Alaska”, February 2022
● American Geophysical Institute, “Goldilocks meets Smokey the Bear: assessing wildfire hazards and communication”, New Orleans, LA, December 13 th , 2021
● American Geophysical Union, Invited IGNITE talk, “FEW and Far Between: food, energy, and water security in rural Alaska”, New Orleans, LA, December 15 th , 2021
● American Geophysical Union, “A framework for assessing food, energy, and water (FEW) security: a FEW case studies from rural Alaska”, New Orleans, LA, December 15 th , 2021
● American Geophysical Union, Poster “Predicting the Unpredictable: Future Vegetation Near Fairbanks, Alaska, Taking Into Account Succession and Wildfire” with Monika Calef as lead, New Orleans, LA, December 13 th , 2021.
● American Geophysical Union, New Orleans, LA, Poster “Permafrost hazard mapping in the discontinuous permafrost zone of Alaska” with Dmitry Nicolsky as lead, December 15 th , 2021
● American Geophysical Union, Poster “Evaluating possible future rain in winter hazards for major communities in Alaska and the Yukon Territory” with Peter Bieniek as lead, New Orleans, LA, December 13 th , 2021
● 13 th Western Alaska Interdisciplinary Conference, May 14, 2021. “A framework for assessing food, energy, and water security: a FEW case studies from rural Alaska”.
● UAA STEM talk: Living with wildfire. University of Alaska Anchorage, March 31 st ,2021.
● Alaska Fire Science Consortium, “Arctic Urban Risks and Adaptations (AURA): a co-production framework for addressing multiple changing environmental hazards”, April 1 st , 2020. Available on the Frames website.

Funding Awarded

• INBRE: Engaging college students in culturally relevant cancer prevention and control. 2021 – 2022, $153,100
• National Science Foundation (NSF): NNA Track 1: Collaborative Research: Socio-ecological considerations for sustainAble Fuel treatments to Reduce wildfire Risk (SAFRR), 2021 – 2025, $825,241/$2,291,321.
• National Science Foundation (NSF): NNA Planning: Collaborative Research: Electric Vehicles in the Arctic (EVITA) – Interactions with Cold Weather, Microgrids, People, and Policy, 2021 – 2023, $126,977/$299,771.
• National Science Foundation (NSF): Collaborative Research: Complex Effects of Telecoupled Activities in the Changing Environment of the Arctic, 2021-2024, $644,459/$1,541,816
• Bureau of Land Management (BLM): Multi-purpose fuel breaks and outreach to promote fire resilient communities, 2020-2025, $40,000
• Department of Energy (DOE): The importance of power: valuation of electricity LVAT RADIANCE funding award # TE1104050-05300-3123820, FRONTIER funding award # PG0400000-05450-1005604, $50,765
• National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL): ETIPP Island and Remote Community Stakeholder Engagement Regional Project Partners$113,090/$444,317
• Montana State University (CTRP program): Piloting community engaged cancer education for Alaska Native youth, 2020 – 2021, $21,250.
• National Science Foundation (NSF): NNA Track 1: Collaborative Research: Arctic Urban Risks and Adaptations (AURA): a co-production framework for addressing multiple changing environmental hazards, 2019 – 2023, $1,128,919/$2,252,214.
• Montana State University (CTRP program): Community engaged development of cancer education for Alaska Native Youth, 2019 – 2020, $49,500.
• National Science Foundation (NSF): Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR): Fire and Ice: Navigating Variability in Boreal Wildfire Regimes and Subarctic Coastal Ecosystems (F&I), 2019-2024, $20,000,000, award #OIA-1757348 and the State of Alaska
• National Science Foundation (NSF): INFEWS/T3: Coupling infrastructure improvements to food-energy-water system dynamics in small cold region communities: MicroFEWs, 2018 – 2023 $146,705/ $2,488,121.

Technical Reports, Videos, Infographics

• Ziel R., Schmidt J.I., Calef M., Varvak A. (2024) Mapping the wildfire threat to boreal communities. Available at https://www.frames.gov/catalog/69574
• Schmidt J.I. and Larson O. (2023) Report for AK PANOCESU Collaborative Effort to Develop a Statewide Wildfire Exposure Map (L22AC00566) https://alaskanrm.com/wildfire-exposure/
• Schmidt J.I. and See J. (2023) Advancing Wildfire Preparedness and Planning in Anchorage: Wildfire Exposure and Egress Study https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iMeh-E6yf1Bq80XHaWWs-__8jC71vI8F/view
• Eagen, P., Schmidt, J.I, Whitney, R. Wilber, M. (2021) Solar Photovoltaic, infographic,https://ine.uaf.edu/microfews/blog
• Eagen, P., Schmidt, J.I, Whitney, R. Wilber, M. (2021) Wind, infographic, https://ine.uaf.edu/microfews/blog
• Eagen, P., Schmidt, J.I, Whitney, R. Wilber, M. (2021) Hydro-electric, infographic, https://ine.uaf.edu/microfews/blog
• Schmidt, J.I. and Grabinski, Z. (2020) McKinley Wildfire Lessons Learned, infographic, https://www.frames.gov/afsc/mckinley-infographic
• Byrd, A. Schmidt, J.I., Hutchquist, N. and Phillips, C. (2020) The McKinley Fire: rebuilding and lessons learned, video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no8dvnjbdHY&t=4s
• Schmidt, J.I. (2019) Energy Use and Biomass in Tanana, infographic
• Schmidt, J.I. (2019) Survey results: Technology in Noatak, Noorvik, and Brevig Mission, infographic
• Schmidt, J.I. (2019) Winter Moose Browse JBER, United States Air Force Joint Elmendorft-Richardson, Anchorage, AK.
• Schmidt, J. I., Kofinas, G. P., Brinkman, T. J., O’Neal, N. 2018. Local Knowledge and Science: Observations of Landscape Change in the Nuiqsut Homelands. Northern Test Case of Alaska EPSCoR. University of Alaska. Fairbanks, AK. Pp 28. Posted at: http://www.alaska.edu/epscor/files/epscor/NTC/Nuiqsut-Community-Report.pdf
• Schmidt J.I. and Berman M. (2018) Adapting to Environmental and Social Change: Subsistence in Three Aleutian Communities.
• Loeffler B. and Schmidt J.I. (2017) Local Jobs and Income from Mineral Exploration. January 2017.
• Schmidt J.I. (2015) Land use in the Arctic. TUNDRA project final report.  The Norwegian Research Council, (#S192040/S30).
• Schmidt J.I. (2015) Mining in the Arctic. TUNDRA project final report.  The Norwegian Research Council, (#S192040/S30).
• Schmidt J.I. (2015) Community Dynamics in the Arctic. TUNDRA project final report. The Norwegian Research Council, (#S192040/S30).

Programs:

• Deheaping software – a program to deal with rounding (i.e. heaping) bias in self-reported survey data. This program helps to assess and correct for biases in metrics such as number of days hunted, number of fish/game harvested, number of visits to parks, etc.

Curriculum Vitae: Jennifer Schmidt’s Vita (PDF, 262KB) – Updated December 2024