Alaska Natives in Geosciences: Opportunity in the Last Frontier

地球科学领域的阿拉斯加原住民：最后前沿的机遇

• 批准号: 0303337
• 负责人: Catherine Hanks
• 金额: $ 45.8万
• 依托单位: University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-04-15 至 2007-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0303337&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Alaska; Natives; Geosciences; Opportunity; Last

ABSTRACTAlaska Natives in Geosciences: Opportunity in the Last Frontier This project broadens the participation of Alaska Natives in the geosciences at both the professional level and the community level, by increasing geoscience literacy amongst the next generation of Alaska Native leaders. It also increases the awareness of local geoscience issues in Alaska Native communities.Alaska Natives in Geosciences is a project with an integrated, intergenerational approach designed to attract young Alaska Natives to the geosciences as a career and to encourage declared Alaska Natives geoscience majors to continue their studies. A college-level, field-intensive, introductory geoscience course is designed specifically for the high school juniors and seniors enrolled at the Rural Alaska Honors Institute (RAHI). This is followed by a community-based one-week field course open to RAHI graduates as well as other Alaska Native geoscience students. Both classes will introduce Alaska Native students to the geologic issues and concerns relevant to Alaska Natives and their communities. Alaska Native undergraduate geology majors from the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) work with geoscience faculty as teaching assistants and mentors to the RAHI students, providing an additional opportunity for undergraduate geology majors to interact with faculty on an individual basis and explore geology as a profession. This program works with the Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program (ANSEP) to provide cohort registration, student advising, tutoring and scholarship support for Alaska Native undergraduate students currently in or entering into the UAF geoscience program. Geology majors work with teaching and research faculty to present geologic concepts to high school juniors and seniors in a context that is relevant to the students, promoting a team atmosphere within the student body, while providing mentoring opportunities both to and by the undergraduate students.

本项目通过提高下一代阿拉斯加原住民领导人的地球科学素养，扩大阿拉斯加原住民在专业层面和社区层面对地球科学的参与。它还提高了阿拉斯加土著社区对当地地球科学问题的认识。阿拉斯加土著地球科学是一个综合的、跨代的项目，旨在吸引年轻的阿拉斯加土著以地球科学为职业，并鼓励阿拉斯加土著地球科学专业的学生继续他们的学习。一门大学水平的、实地密集的、地球科学入门课程是专门为在阿拉斯加农村荣誉学院（RAHI）注册的高中三年级和四年级学生设计的。随后是一个以社区为基础的为期一周的实地课程，向RAHI毕业生以及其他阿拉斯加土著地球科学学生开放。这两门课都将向阿拉斯加原住民学生介绍与阿拉斯加原住民及其社区相关的地质问题和关注点。来自阿拉斯加费尔班克斯大学（UAF）的阿拉斯加本地本科地质学专业学生作为RAHI学生的助教和导师与地球科学学院合作，为本科地质学专业学生提供了额外的机会，与教师进行个人互动，并将地质学作为一种专业进行探索。该项目与阿拉斯加本土科学与工程项目（ANSEP）合作，为目前就读或即将进入UAF地球科学项目的阿拉斯加本土本科生提供队列注册、学生咨询、辅导和奖学金支持。地质学专业的学生与教学和研究人员合作，在与学生相关的背景下向高中三年级和四年级学生介绍地质学概念，在学生群体中促进团队氛围，同时为本科生和本科生提供指导机会。