Session: Growing Tribal Climate Change Education Leaders: An Introduction to the Climate Adaptation and Mitigation E-Learning (CAMEL) Community (2011 SACNAS National Conference)

Saturday, October 29, 2011: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM

Room C3/C4 (San Jose Convention Center)

Chair:

David Blockstein, PhD, Executive Secretary, Council of Environmental Deans and Directors

Description: This interactive workshop presents examples of climate change education from traditional perspectives and introduces participants to a new National Science Foundation-funded online tool—Climate Adaptation and Mitigation E-Learning (CAMEL) community portal: www.camelclimatechange.org. CAMEL provides a rich collection of high-quality educational resources, including Traditional Ecological Knowledge and cultural perspectives of Native Americans.

1:30 PM

Growing Tribal Climate Change Education Leaders: An Introduction to the Climate Adaptation and Mitigation E-Learning (CAMEL) Community
Al Kuslikis, MS , STEM Coordinator , American Indian Higher Education Consortium

1:50 PM

Growing Tribal Climate Change Education Leaders: An Introduction to the Climate Adaptation and Mitigation E-Learning (CAMEL) Community
Octavia Trujillo, PhD , Founding Chair and Professor, Department of Applied Indigenous Studies , Northern Arizona University

2:10 PM

Climate Change Education: Bringing Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and American Indian Cultural Perspectives into an Online Community
Arnold Bloom, PhD , Professsor , University of California, Davis

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