National Science Foundation

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National Science Foundation IGERT
Program Integrative Graduate Education
Research Training C-CHANGE Project Climate
Change, Humans Nature in the Global Environment
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C-CHANGE Project Climate Change, Humans Nature
in the Global Environment
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HASKELL INDIAN NATIONS UNIVERSITY
Haskell Environmental Research Studies Center
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THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
KU Biodiversity Institute
KU Institute for Policy Social Research
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C-CHANGE Project Climate Change, Humans Nature
in the Global Environment Training students in
Geo Sciences Bio Sciences Social Sciences How
is climate changing? What are the impacts on
humans and nature? What are our options for
responding to climate change?
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Climate Change and Biological Systems
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2055 projected tularemia distribution
1960-1990 tularemia distribution
Present-day tularemia model (left) projected to
2055 climate conditions based on the CGCM1-A2
model/scenario of likely climate change in the
United States
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Climate Change and Geological Atmospheric
Systems
Lucia Glacier, Patagonia, Chile
Hurricane Katrina. US Gulf Coast
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Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania
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Climate Change and Human and Social Systems
Shishmaref, Alaska
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Flooding in Louisiana, Hurricane Katrina, 2005
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• KU Graduate students
• Complete Ph.D. in
• Biology and biological sciences
• Geology and geographic, atmospheric physical
  sciences
• Social, economic, political, cultural policy
  sciences
• Receive graduate certificate in Global Climate
  Change Studies
• Complete internships in climate science and
  science policy

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• Students from Haskell Tribal Colleges
• Participate in Research Experience for
  Undergraduates at
• Haskell HERS Center
• KU CReSIS, BI, IPSR
• Design reservation-based research projects
• Collaborate with undergrads, grad students
  faculty

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KU CReSIS Haskell models of sea level rises in
Alaska Gulf Coast
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Principal Investigators Joane Nagel, Sociology,
Director, Center for Research on Global Change,
IPSR David Braaten, Geography, Deputy Director,
KU Center for Remote Sensing of Ice
Sheets Leonard Krishtalka, Ecology Evolutionary
Biology, Director, KU Biodiversity Institute A.
Townsend Peterson, Ecology Evolutionary
Biology, Curator of Ornithology, KU Natural
History Museum Daniel Wildcat, American Indian
Studies, Director, Haskell Environmental Research
Studies Center
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