Wow!  This project is so timely and important!  Especially in light of research indicating that for Native youth in many North American communities, wellbeing is enhanced by connecting with traditional Indigenous Knowledge Systems.

Are you collecting information on the youths' sense of agency and wellbeing in addition to their academic involvement?

I appreciate how you describe interventions along the pathway for middle school all the way to graduate school. Carolyn, you speak about how the NSF Includes project builds on work started by the Rising Voices Collective. What new element or focus will the NSF INCLUDES grant allow you to do? How are you envision "success" and how will you be able to measure it?

Thanks for this really interesting video. 

Thanks for the informative reply!

Aanii (hi) Carolyn, Your video and answers above are very informative. As you may remember, I reached out to you on Trellis a while back as I am with the Indigenous Women Working within the Sciences project. :-)  From my lens, the IWWS pilot project has a distinct alignment to your program in that it is about ways of knowing and valuing diverse ways of knowing and teaching. I hope we can connect some time soon to see if there are ways we can work together. Chi miigwech (Great thanks)!

Thanks for sharing your vision! What would success look like for your Launch Pilot project? In the short term? In the long term?

In the short-term, getting American Indian and Alaska Native students into Earth Sciences under-graduate and graduate degree programs. Long-term - getting much more robust research agendas established in the area of climate adaptation that draws on the combined use of Indigenous knowledge(s) and methodologies with classic Western scientific knowledges/methodologies in what would amount to community-based research projects. As my good friend Kalani Souza, Hawaiian Wisdom-Keeper likes to points out, "Some minds are always better than one mind." 

This looks terrific -- I'm really excited to see how it develops. There are some nice points of connection with our CAHSI INCLUDES pilot, which focuses on Hispanic students in the computational sciences (broadly defined), from community college through grad school and beyond.

Hi Carolyn, Dan and colleagues-

Great video.  Exciting to see this work going forward.  The video helps me see the connections between our projects even more clearly.  EarthConnections is also in the geosciences but is starting with a focus in seismic hazards and water resources.    We will also be making use of GLOBE (in Atlanta), and building on undergraduate research experiences (with IRIS and SCEC).  Our Oklahoma Tribal Nations Alliance is meeting tomorrow.  It seems like it would be valuable to get in touch after that meeting to learn more about how we can help each other.  Oklahoma Alliance description is here: http://serc.carleton.edu/earthconnections/oklah....

Dear Cathy, 

Great to hear about your work and connections -Thank you for your comment. I'm the GLOBE point-of-contact for this team, and I'd love to chat more with you about the use of GLOBE in Atlanta and other communities! Please feel free to email kwegner@ucar.edu. Best, Kristin

great stuff, Carolyn, Kristin and all.  I am excited about the potential to draw on observations and knowledge about climate change from people in communities where climate impacts may hit hard... but where there are also great lessons about long-term resilience.  Also love the focus on youth as people who can bring both science and indigenous perspectives to the table.  I don't see resilience in your list of success measures - what do you hope to learn there, and how will you track it?