Alaska Natives in Geosciences: Opportunity in the Last Frontier

这个项目通过提高下一代阿拉斯加土著领导人的地球科学素养，扩大了阿拉斯加土著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原住民社区对当地地球科学问题的认识。地球科学中的阿拉斯加原住民是一个具有综合、代际方法的项目，旨在吸引年轻的阿拉斯加原住民以地球科学为职业，并鼓励已宣布的阿拉斯加原住民地学专业继续他们的学习。这是一门专门为阿拉斯加乡村荣誉学院(RAHI)注册的高三和高年级学生设计的大学水平的、实地强化的地球科学入门课程。随后是为期一周的社区实地课程，向Rahi毕业生和其他阿拉斯加土著地球科学专业的学生开放。这两门课程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切。阿拉斯加大学费尔班克斯分校(UAF)的阿拉斯加原住民地质学专业本科生与地球科学学院合作，作为Rahi学生的助教和导师，为地质学专业本科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职业进行探索。该计划与阿拉斯加原住民科学与工程计划(ANSEP)合作，为目前正在或即将进入UAF地球科学计划的阿拉斯加原住民本科生提供队列注册、学生咨询、辅导和奖学金支持。地质学专业与教学和研究人员合作，在与学生相关的背景下向高三和高年级学生介绍地质概念，促进学生体内的团队氛围，同时为本科生提供指导机会。

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.