Eleanor Huffines
Eleanor Huffines
Profile
Eleanor Huffines is a senior officer with Pew’s Arctic Ocean-U.S. project, which works to promote science- and community-based conservation of the Bering, Chukchi, and Beaufort seas. Huffines collaborates with communities, scientists, and government personnel to influence policy affecting the environment, subsistence cultures, and sustainable development.
Huffines has spent more than 20 years living and working in Alaska. Before joining Pew, she served as regional director for the Wilderness Society and conservation director for the National Outdoor Leadership School. She also spent 10 years as a guide with the school, leading people from around the world on paddling, hiking, and climbing expeditions throughout Alaska and the Arctic. Huffines has served on the Bureau of Land Management Resource Advisory Council, Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council, and Trustees for Alaska Public Interest Law Firm board of directors, among other bodies. She holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Recent Work
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Pew and Partners Offer Input on Proposed Arctic Lease Program
The Pew Charitable Trusts, Audubon Alaska, Oceana, Ocean Conservancy, and World Wildlife Fund sent a letter March 8 to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) asking it to maintain the 2017-22 Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program. Read More
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Offshore Drilling Plan Threatens the Health of Arctic Marine Ecosystem
Earlier this month, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke released the largest proposed offshore drilling program in our nation’s history, negating the exhaustive, multiyear public process that was completed in January 2017. Read More
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Treating Arctic Ecosystems as Systems
Why should we be concerned about shipping in Arctic waters? What would be the consequences of commercial fishing in the Arctic Ocean? How do we anticipate the effects of climate change in the far north? Read More