UMEB: Recruiting Native Americans into Environmental Science

[00:34 . 04]这个项目涉及堪萨斯的三所大学之间的合作，并将培训一些与生态和环境科学相关的研究技术的美国原住民本科生。与许多只提供短暂研究经验的项目不同，这个项目将与学生一起工作2-4年，并指导他们完成学士学位的毕业。在过去的7年里，这个项目的pi已经为超过25名印第安人毕业，这些毕业生中的大多数都继续上研究生院。该奖项包括来自美国国家科学基金会国际科学与工程办公室中欧和东欧项目的一笔补充资金，用于资助学生和导师前往西伯利亚进行土著知识研究，作为与戈尔诺-阿尔塔伊斯克州立大学的科学家和学生合作的一部分。这个项目的意义在于最近的发现，土著社区代表了丰富的知识储备，这些知识既补充又补充了通过西方科学传统方法获得的科学知识，例如，土著知识1)揭示了生态社区之间的联系，这些生态社区被单独研究，在西方科学范式下仍然没有联系；2)深入了解高质量个体在人口动态中的作用，这被西方传统的人口水平思维所掩盖。完成本课程的学生将比任何其他群体更有能力在本土知识的背景下进行科学研究。这些方法可以同时提高科学意识，而不会忽视人类经验的精神层面。

0203404PierottiThis project involves collaboration between three universities in Kansasand will train a number of Native American undergraduates in researchtechniques related to ecology and environmental science. Unlike manyprograms that offer only a brief research experience, this program will workwith students over a 2-4 year period and mentor them through to graduationwith a bachelor's degree. The PIs on this program have graduated more than25 Native Americans over the last 7 years, and most of these graduates havegone on to attend graduate school.This award includes a supplement from the Central and Eastern Europe Program of NSF's Office of International Science and Engineering to fund student and mentor travel to Siberia for research on indigenous knowledge as part of a collaboration with scientists and students at Gorno-Altaisk State University.The significance of this program lies in recent discoveries that Indigenouscommunities represent stores of knowledge that both add to and complimentscientific knowledge obtained through the methods of the Western scientifictradition, e.g. indigenous knowledge 1) reveals connections betweenecological communities that are studied separately and remain unlinkedunder Western scientific paradigms, and 2) give insight into the role ofhigh quality individuals within population dynamics that are obscured byWestern traditions of population level thinking. Students completing thisprogram will be better prepared to conduct scientific research within thecontext of indigenous knowledge than any other group. Such approaches cansimultaneously increase scientific awareness without losing sight ofspiritual dimensions of human experience.