EAGER-Indigenous Geoscience Community

土著地球科学社区建议，通过促进跨文化交流传统知识(TK)，将不同的土著社区聚集在一个将加强个人、社区、学术和专业空间的环境中，提出解决直接影响主权和人类健康的环境问题的不同战略，为跨文化合作提供机会，并从建立这些关系中获益，确定土著导师，为青年和早期职业专业人员提供支持系统，促进为地球科学研究和教育制定创新解决方案，并加深地球科学知识。私人投资机构制定了一种成功的方法，使土著社区参与地球科学研究方法和政策，在实验室和实地开展地球科学研究，并利用传统知识教授STEM。参与者可交付的内容包括：基于文化背景发展研究方法、博客、研究论文、海报和会议演示。P土著地球科学社区旨在解决土著学生和专业在地球科学中遇到的障碍(例如，由于缺乏自我效能、文化意识形态的错位和世界观的反差而产生的孤立感、缺乏支持和幻想破灭)。该项目将为参与者提供一个安全的环境，1-展示他们作为土著地球科学家的完整身份，2-讨论与他们的地球科学研究相结合的两个TK系统，3-建立同行和导师支持网络，4-确定土著地球科学和文化从业人员作为导师，5-建立一个理解和应用文化意识和伦理框架的社区，6-制定最佳做法指南，利用来自多个土著群体的集体意见参与土著社区的研究和教育。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，认为值得支持。

The Indigenous Geoscience Community proposes to bring together diverse Indigenous communities in an environment that will strengthen individuals, communities, and academia and professional spaces, by fostering cross-cultural exchange of Traditional Knowledge (TK), present diverse strategies for addressing environmental issues that directly impact sovereignty and human health, provide opportunity for cross-cultural collaborations with benefits of building these relationships, identify Indigenous mentors to provide a support system for youth and early career professionals, foster the development of innovative solutions for geoscience research and education, and deepen the knowledge of geoscience. The PIs have developed a successful method of engaging Indigenous communities in geoscience research methodologies and policy and in conducting geoscience research in both the lab and in the field and in using TK to teach STEM. Participant deliverables include, developing research methods based on cultural background, blogs, research papers, posters, and conference presentations. PThe Indigenous Geoscience Community aims to address obstacles (e.g. feelings of isolation, lack of support, and disillusionment due to a lack of self-efficacy, misalignment of cultural ideologies, and contrasting worldviews) encountered by Indigenous students and professions in the geosciences. The project will provide a secure environment for participants to; 1-present their whole identity as an Indigenous geoscientist, 2- discuss both TK systems blended with their geoscience research, 3- build peer and mentor support networks, 4- identify Indigenous geoscience and cultural practitioners as mentors, and 5- establish a community that understands and applies a culturally aware and ethical framework, 6- to develop a guide of best practices for engaging in research and education with Indigenous communities using collective input from multiple Indigenous groups.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.