NUNAPUT Stewardship Through Science: Honoring Place in a Changing World

阿拉斯加费尔班克斯大学（UAF）布里斯托尔湾校区（BBC）提议加强UAF BBC的环境科学（ES）和可持续能源（SE）应用科学课程。ES和SE项目的创建是为了响应社区对提高STEM知识和能力的需求，以便为快速变化的世界经济和气候带来的环境和能源挑战制定当地可持续的解决方案。目标是提高对STEM的兴趣、入学率、毕业率和就业率，并最终恢复对我们的地方、我们的土地或Yup'ik的努纳普特人的管理意识，在布里斯托尔湾地区的阿拉斯加原住民中。UAF BBC通过远程教育直接服务于阿拉斯加西南部的30多个偏远村庄和越来越多的阿拉斯加农村土著社区。努纳普特将培养学生使用一套文化上合适的活动，旨在学生的学业成功。该项目的智力价值在于ES和SE学位的发展及其对当地社区的潜在利益。在这些STEM领域培养阿拉斯加本土学生成为研究人员、教育工作者和公民科学家的过程中，可能会产生更广泛的影响。

The University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) Bristol Bay Campus (BBC) proposes to strengthen UAF BBC's Environmental Science (ES) and Sustainable Energy (SE) applied science programs. The ES and SE programs were created in response to a community need to enhance STEM knowledge and capacity in order to develop local sustainable solutions to environmental and energy challenges brought on by a rapidly changing world economy and climate.The goal is to improve STEM interest, enrollment, graduation, employment and ultimately to reclaim a sense of stewardship to our place, our land, or Nunaput in Yup'ik, among Native Alaskans in the Bristol Bay region. UAF BBC directly serves over 30 remote villages in southwest Alaska and a growing number of rural Alaska Native communities via distance education. Nunaput will nurture students using a culturally appropriate suite of activities aimed towards student academic success.The intellectual merit of this project is in the ES and SE degree development and their potential benefit to the local community. The Broader impacts may be realized in the preparation of Alaska Native students in these STEM areas as researchers, educators and citizen scientists.