The steering committee consisted of highly experienced professionals, expertise spanning the breadth of positivist STEM perspectives. Arctic engineering, civil engineering, biology, veterinary sciences, chemistry, environmental toxicology, and environmental health; also included was the administrative perspectives of local government. Notably absent from the Steering Committee is expertise in people, culture and society. Although its call for proposals had explicitly asked for design thinking and community
engagement, without HASS expertise the steering committee lacked the capacity to rigorously evaluate those projects by sociocultural as well as technoscientific
criteria.