Responding to the climate needs of Tribal frontline communities
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Staff and scientists from the Integrated Climate Sciences Division (ICSD) will be presenting to the Northwest Interagency Partnership for Sustainable Communities (NIPSC), which is a federal interagency collaboration in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington, co-led by Dani Shannon, (U.S. EPA), Bryan Fiedorczyk (U.S. EPA) and Lisa Stewart (HUD). ICSD staff will present on the topic of Responding to climate needs of Tribal frontline communities using ongoing co-production work on potential landfill contamination being conducted in rural Alaska alongside Alaska Native Villages. The Alaska example will be used as a case study to present the framework and best practices for establishing science co-production with Tribal partners. Presenters will discuss how building reciprocal relationships was incorporated into the scientific process and shaped associated research around landfills in Alaska with tribal communities. The broader implications are that this framework and approach to partnering with Tribal groups can be replicated across agencies and programs in order to better integrate Traditional Ecological and Indigenous Knowledges alongside western science methods.