Alaska Natives in Geosciences: Opportunity in the Last Frontier

阿拉斯加原住民在地球科学：机会在最后的边疆这个项目扩大了阿拉斯加原住民在地球科学的参与，在专业水平和社区水平，通过提高地球科学素养之间的下一代阿拉斯加原住民领导人。“阿拉斯加土著人参与地球科学”是一个采用综合性代际办法的项目，旨在吸引年轻的阿拉斯加土著人以地球科学为职业，并鼓励已申报的阿拉斯加土著人地球科学专业学生继续学习。一个大学水平，现场密集，介绍地球科学课程是专为高中三年级和四年级学生在农村阿拉斯加荣誉研究所（RAHI）注册。随后是一个以社区为基础的为期一周的实地课程，开放给RAHI毕业生以及其他阿拉斯加土著地球科学学生。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有关的地质问题和问题。阿拉斯加本地本科地质专业从阿拉斯加费尔班克斯（UAF）的大学工作与地球科学教师作为助教和导师的RAHI学生，提供了一个额外的机会本科地质专业与教师互动的个人基础上，探索地质学作为一种职业。该计划与阿拉斯加土著科学与工程计划（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土著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中三年级和四年级学生介绍地质学概念，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.