Tribal College and University Climate Change Course Series

美国印第安人高等教育联盟(AIHEC)由美国36所部落控制的学院和大学(TCU)组成，与国家大气研究中心(NCAR)合作，正在开发一系列本土地球科学课程，将美洲印第安人对气候、天气和水的传统知识和观点与最先进的地球科学工具和实践相结合。该系列主要关注与美国印第安人社区和部落土地特别相关的气候、天气和水过程和问题，预计将为TCU的学生提供对气候变化感兴趣的基础。这些课程旨在为美国印第安人和其他学生提供机会，让他们彻底了解与气候变化相关的物理、文化和技术问题，以及缓解气候变化对地球和人类的影响。本系列课程由两部分组成。第一个是为期一学期的本科气候变化科学课程，从北美土著人民持有的传统生态知识的角度教授。第二个是以土著为基础的研究实践，利用数码基础设施获取地球科学数据、仪器和计算资源，为部落学院的学生提供机会，与长老、社区成员和NCAR的研究导师合作，实践最先进的电子科学。该项目正在使用NSF支持的STEM评估土著框架进行评估，并应产生一个可在所有TCU和其他高等教育机构使用的计划。

The American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC), which is comprised of 36 tribally-controlled colleges and universities (TCUs) in the United States, in collaboration with the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), is developing an Indigenous Geosciences course series that integrates traditional American Indian knowledge and perspectives on climate, weather, and water with state of the art Geoscience tools and practices. The series is focused on climate, weather, and water processes and issues that are particularly relevant to American Indian communities and tribal lands and is expected to provide a foundation for TCU students interested in climate change. The courses are being designed to provide American Indian and other students the opportunity to gain a thorough understanding of the physical, cultural, and technological issues associated with climate change and the mitigation of its effects on the earth and its people. The course series has two components. The first is a semester-long undergraduate climate change science course taught from the perspective of the traditional ecological knowledge held by Native peoples of North America. The second is an Indigenous-based research practicum using Cyberinfrastructure-enabled access to Geosciences data, instrumentation and computing resource that provides an opportunity for Tribal College students to practice state-of-the-art e-Science, in collaboration with elders, community members, and research mentors at NCAR. The project is being evaluated using the NSF-supported Indigenous Framework for STEM evaluation and should result in a program that can be used throughout all TCUs and other institutions of higher education.