Rising Voices, Changing Coasts: The National Indigenous and Earth Sciences Convergence Hub.
Speakers: Dan Wildcat, Paulette Blanchard, Jenniffer Santos Hernandez, and Melissa Moulton
Abstract:
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Rising Voices, Changing Coasts (RVCC) Hub is a coastal research project that brings together university-trained scientists and Indigenous knowledge-holders to study the interactions between natural, human-built, and social systems in coastal populated environments. RVCC is working to improve our understanding of how climate change will impact four diverse coastal regions, including Alaska, Louisiana, Hawai’i and Puerto Rico, and to provide local communities with the information they need to take action and protect their lifeways. In addition, the Hub is building a lasting legacy that will extend beyond our five-year funding horizon by creating a convergence science framework for successful and respectful collaboration among Earth scientists and Indigenous communities; providing research opportunities for Indigenous students; and strengthening the capacity and networking of Tribal Colleges and University (TCU) systems’ for shared capacity to continue to facilitate similar collaborative research projects going forward. In this talk we provide an overview of the RVCC project and touch on some different aspects of our community-driven collaborative work.
