ABSTRACT
As we enter a new epoch we are getting used to calling the Anthropocene, the need to think and work across the boundaries of the respective academic disciplines in which we are trained is an urgent responsibility. The dichotomy between the social and natural sciences, which may be useful and convenient when allocating research funds to projects, and knowing where to place people’s academic articles in disciplinary journals, becomes problematic when confronting the climate crisis. Anthropologists are now challenged more than ever to work across disciplinary boundaries and develop multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research projects that move towards integration. In this chapter, I reflect on a collaborative research project with oceanographers, sea ice physicists, marine geologists, and other scientists, as well as with communities in Northwest Greenland, which set out to understand the changing nature of sea ice.
