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，正在开发一个土著地球科学课程系列，将传统的美国印第安人知识和对气候，天气和水的看法与最先进的地球科学工具和实践相结合。 该系列侧重于气候，天气和水的过程和问题，特别是与美洲印第安社区和部落土地相关，预计将为对气候变化感兴趣的TCU学生提供基础。 这些课程旨在为美国印第安人和其他学生提供机会，以深入了解与气候变化相关的物理，文化和技术问题，并减轻其对地球和人类的影响。 该系列课程有两个组成部分。 第一个是为期一个学期的气候变化科学本科课程，从北美土著人民掌握的传统生态知识的角度讲授。 第二个是基于土著的研究实习，使用网络基础设施访问地球科学数据，仪器和计算资源，为部落学院的学生提供了一个机会，与长者，社区成员和NCAR的研究导师合作，实践最先进的电子科学。 该项目正在使用国家科学基金会支持的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方案。

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.