Climate Change in Indigenous Communities
The Haskell Environmental Research Studies (HERS) Institute Internship program is an educational and research collaboration between Haskell Indian Nations University (Haskell) and the University of Kansas (KU). We offer Summer Research Experiences for undergraduates (SREs) that integrate Haskell and tribal college undergraduate environmental science education with KU faculty research and graduate student training in climate change. The HERS Institute Internship program is a response to the environmental challenges facing many indigenous communities and extends the work of the American Indian/Alaska Native Climate Change Working Group (AI/ANCCWG). The AI/ANCCWG was established at Haskell in 2006 as a communication and collaboration network of climate studies researchers in tribal colleges and agencies to identify a research agenda for assessing climate-related changes in indigenous communities and to prepare native students for careers in scientific and technical fields. The HERS Institute Internship program brings together KU and Haskell scientific facilities, students, and faculty in summer classroom instruction on the Haskell campus and field research projects on topics involving indigenous communities around the US. The HERS Institute Internship program is funded by Kansas NSF EPSCoR in association with KU’s NSF IGERT program: C-CHANGE (Climate Change, Humans, and Nature in the Global Environment), and provides opportunities for IGERT trainees to teach, collaborate with, and serve as mentors to Haskell REU students in classes and research projects.
Visit the photo album of the Haskell Undergraduate Summer 2009 Research Institute activities here.
