2005 ESRI International User Conference Proceedings. - pdf file
"How to set up a GIS program at a tribal college" S. Mannel and K. Winkelman, 25-29
July 2005, San Diago, CA.
This paper provides detailed ideas on how to set up a college GIS program and how
to develop it for maximum benefits in education, research, and community. We draw our
experience from setting up the GIS program at Oglala Lakota College, Pine Ridge
Reservation in South Dakota. GIS can be useful in many fields and is relatively
inexpensive to set up. Native Americans applied science in the past and now embrace
GIS technology for everyday decision making, such as housing and as a tool for
preserving cultural identity. The wide range of GIS is visible in research collaborations,
which include sustainable bison ranching, geospatial pattern analysis of diabetes and
mapping of cultural and historical Lakota sites. General issues related to establishing a
GIS program are outlined in this report. This report is presented to provide a first
overview of GIS and promote this technology to other colleges, especially tribal
institutions.
MSFC
NASA Academy Students' Poster Session - jpg file
Jacci Bloom, MS Technology Management Student, South
Dakota School of Mines & Technology; July 2006,
MSFC, Huntsville, AL. Maury Estes, Mentor.
MSFC
NASA Academy Students' Conference Presentation - pdf file
Jacci Bloom, MS Technology Management Student, South Dakota School of Mines & Technology;
11 August 2006, MSFC, Huntsville, AL. Maury Estes, Mentor.
NativeView
2006 Tribal College Forum V - pdf file
Maury Estes; 7-8 September 2006, Bismarck, ND. Served on "Building on Geospatial Collaborations: Example
of Tribal College Initiatives" panel and presented poster. NativeView is a coordinated Tribal College
geospatial science education initiative spearheaded by Tribal Colleges and Universities, the North Dakota
Association of Tribal Colleges, and the USGS to integrate Earth science technologies to benefit
Indian education, land and resource management, self determination, and quality of life.
Joint NASA/NSF Research and Education Opportunities Conference for Principal
Investigators, Faculty and Partners - Outside image jpg or Outside image pdf and
Inside image jpg or
Inside image pdf
Don Perkey; 22-24 February 2007, Chantilly, VA. Served as a roundtable member of the "Session on
Research and Education Outreach." These two high-resolution jpg files contain outside and inside
images used to create an 8.5x14 trifold TRESTE brochure.
TRESTE Panel, NativeView 2007 Tribal College Forum VI
Maury Estes, Lea Whiteford, Sylvio Mannel and Gary Halvorson; 5-7 September 2007, Bismarck, ND.
: "Integrating Earth System Science data into Tribal college and university curricula." - pdf file
Peg Tilgner and Don Perkey; American Geophysical Fall 2007 Meeting Presentation, 10-14 December 2007, San Francisco, CA. Abstract: Universities
Space Research Association and Sinte Gleska University (SGU) have teamed with eight Tribal Colleges
and Universities (TCUs) to participate in a NASA Earth Science funded project, TRibal Earth
Science and Technology Education (TRESTE) project which focuses on TCU faculty teaching undergraduate Earth science
courses to non-science and science students, with particular attention to TCU faculty teaching K-12 pre- and inservice
teachers. The eight partner TCUs are: Blackfeet Community College (BCC), Browning, MT, Fond du Lac
Tribal and Community College, Cloquet, MN, Fort Berthold Community College, New Town, ND, Little Priest
Tribal College, Winnebago, NE, Oglala Lakota College, Pine Ridge, SD, Sitting Bull College, Fort Yates, ND,
Turtle Mountain Community College, Belcourt, ND, United Tribes Technical College (UTTC), Bismarck, ND. The
goal of this 3-year project is to promote the use of NASA Earth science data and products in the classroom thereby
enabling faculty to inspire undergraduate students to careers in Earth system science, the physical sciences, and
related fields of science and engineering. To accomplish this goal we are targeting three areas: (1) course content -
enhance the utilization of Earth system science and physical science concepts, (2) teaching methodology - develop
problem-based learning (PBL) methods, and (3) tools and technology - increase the utilization of GIS and remote
sensing in the classroom. We also have enlisted ESRI, NativeView and the USGS as collaborators. To date we have
held an introductory “needs” workshop at the USGS EROS Data Center and two annual workshops, one at UTTC
and the second at BCC. During these annual workshops we have divided our time among the three areas. We have
modeled the workshops using the PBL or Case Study approach by starting with a story or current event. Topics for
the annual workshops have been Drought and Forest and Grassland Fires. These topics led us into the solar radiation
budget, surface energy budgets, climate and climate change, impacts, etc. GIS and remote sensing training has
focused on importing, converting and displaying data sets related to drought and fires. The Integrated Science
courses at SGU, designed primarily for pre-service elementary teachers, have incorporated physical science concepts
and teaching approaches presented at the TRESTE annual workshops. The content of the courses follows the PBL
teaching approach and is organized around a relevant, local problem such as prairie dog control and prairie
management. Concepts from Earth, life and physical sciences are included in the course design. The fall course is
introduced using recent news articles on legislation to control prairie dogs. After expressing their ideas based solely
on experience and emotion, students determine what knowledge they will need to write an informed opinion on the
issue. One of the instructional units for the course includes instruction and practice in interpreting satellite images of
the local reservation to determine impact of prairie dog towns on vegetation. Students also conduct soil studies in
the disturbed areas and nearby undisturbed areas. Data is gathered on soil chemistry, soil temperatures, and surface
temperatures, measured with an infrared sensor provided by the TRESTE grant. Additional topics covered in the
course that contain information from the annual workshops,
