it's deva-lynn pokiak's first big project.she can hardly believe that she landed a spot on dustin whalen's team. she's the only one in the canadian-british group without an academic backround. and the only inuit. the community was concerned about the air, dust, ground stabilty, erosion and our water ways, so we're out here to collect that data with the help of the researchers and the scientists. everyone in tuk, as the village is referred to locally, knows dustin whalen. the canadian permafrost reseacher has been coming here for almost 20 years. unlike his colleagues who fly in and out to collect data, he recognized early on the importance of getting indigenous people like deva-lynn on board. people that lived in the community, like deva-lynn's dad, the knowledge that they have about the land is far, far above any of the knowledge that i have learned in my academic text books about processes, or climate change or coastal erosion. a training session out on the arctic ocean. temperature's stable the scientists are teaching deva-