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_ScienceBase Catalog
__National and Regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers
___North Central CASC
____FY 2011 Projects
_____Assessment of Data Integration Capacity in the North Central Region
This capacity-building activity supported three tribal college and university (TCU) mini-grants to initiate student phenological and meteorological observation projects in support of climate change research, to document impacts of climate change and development of indigenous geography curriculum. Students made observations of culturally and/or traditionally significant plants to generate data sets for use in climate change impact assessment of these plants and plant communities. The activity contributed to the larger national efforts of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian’s “Indigenous Geography” curricula, by engaging with students at tribal colleges to explore the linkage between the “seasonality”...
