A lot of our priorities are based on adaptation and mitigation for the ongoing climate change effects in our communities and the ability for our people to adapt to them, or for our communities to even survive. We've faced existential threats of, say, erosion caused by either extreme weather events on the coast or permafrost thaw in the terrestrial regions. We have the collapse of species like caribou. We need to understand more about that and how to ensure that our wildlife can be as healthy as possible, even within a changing Arctic.
We have a number of different imperative research questions to meet the threats that are now caused by climate change. On the other side, on the academic side, we have a lot of other research questions that are important to institutions or to different fields of science. We're not here to criticize any of those; we're just here to say that some of them don't appear to be as urgent to answer as the ones that affect our communities and our people every day.