Ian Johnson
HIA Environmental Coordinator
Sustainable Southeast Partnership Community Catalyst
Ian Johnson is the Community Catalyst in Hoonah, Alaska. He also serves as the Hoonah Indian Association (HIA) Environmental Coordinator. Ian was born and raised in small town Minnesota, completed his undergrad in Biology along the shores of Lake Superior in Wisconsin, and then took a job working for a non-profit wildlife research organization, Biodiversity Research Institute, in Maine. In 2015, Ian graduated with his masters in Wildlife Biology and Conservation from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. His thesis took an interdisciplinary approach to research subsistence access to moose and wolf movements in the Yukon Flats. In Hoonah, Ian is coordinating crews, data, and the diverse partners for the Hoonah Native Forest Partnership. He will also be developing the HIA environmental program to enhance capacity in the community and improve on energy and food issues. Ian is an avid photographer with website (www.ianajohnson.com), a fiddler-guitarist-singer, and an outdoors-man. He hopes to meet you in his office, via email (hoonahcatalyst@gmail.com), on the water with a rod in his hand, or in the field during deer season!
Phone: (907) 945-3545 Ext 140
Email: ian.johnson@hiatribe.org
Jeromy Grant
Environmental Coordinator
Jeromy Grant serves as the Hoonah Indian Association (HIA)Environmental Coordinator. I attended Allied American University where I studied to be a Network Administrator, and Clover Park Technical College where I went through the Computer Networking Information System Security (CNISS) program. In Hoonah, I oversee HIA Environmental’ s PSP monitoring program, which includes setting up sampling sites, weekly water samples from those sites and at least once a month shell fish samples from the sites as well. This spring I am working on doing a E-waste backhaul. I also write The Tide Newsletters and monitor our Facebook page www.facebook.com/HIAEnvironmental/ . I am an avid hunter, fisher and out the road explorer, I practice Bush Craft and other minimalist survival practices.
FY21 Projects
- Water samples (Phytoplankton)
- Shellfish Sampling
- Ocean Acidification data collection
- Shellfish Biomass Survey
- Stream Temperature data collection
- Environmental Plan 2021
- Tools for schools air quality study
- E-Waste Backhaul/collection event
- Tide Newsletter
Phone: (907) 945-3545 Ext 132
Email: jeromy.grant@hiatirbe.org
Julian Narvaez
Environmental Education Coordinator
Julian Narvaez is the Education Coordinator for HIA Environmental. Julian has spent most of his adult life working in rural Alaska, Latin America, New Zealand, and the lower 48. He’s spent his career focusing on youth environmental education and working on land management projects, especially involving remote facilities and trails. For HIA Environmental, Julian coordinates and facilitates dual enrollment courses in the school and the summer AYS program for local high school students. He also assists with HIA’s scientific diving program. He’s looking to develop more environmental education and workforce development initiatives for Hoonah’s youth relevant to forest ecology and fisheries, climate, and marine sciences.
Phone: (907) 802-3220
Email: julian.narvaez@hiatribe.org