This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will support the "EMBRACE-EAR-SEED: Weaving Western Geoscience with Indigenous Knowledge in Times of Climate Change" project. The $199,999 award, which began on January 1, 2025, aims to develop a vegetative and fire timeline of past regional and seasonal climate within Menominee ancestral homelands in the Upper Great Lakes region. The project will build research capacity at the College of Menominee Nation to sample and analyze lake cores, employing techniques such as sediment coring, charcoal analysis, and community-engaged research on ecocultural calendars. This collaborative effort between the College of Menominee Nation, Menominee Tribal Enterprises, and the University of Minnesota's Continental Scientific Drilling Facility seeks to integrate Indigenous knowledge with Western scientific knowledge to inform climate change adaptation and management decisions.
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