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Meet Our Diverse Knowledge Systems Fellows

Meet our current and former Diverse Knowledge Systems for Climate Adaptation (DKS) Fellows!

The Diverse Knowledge Systems for Climate Adaptation (DKS) Fellowship provides graduate students with the opportunity to use their diverse experiences, viewpoints, value systems, and cultural knowledge to strengthen climate adaptation science. In collaboration with their mentors, fellows develop a project applying their unique knowledge system to applied climate adaptation research that will help on-the-ground practitioners understand, plan for, and adapt to the impacts of climate change. 

Examples of previous fellow projects include incorporating local knowledge into the design of buffers to protect coral reefs from runoff in the U.S. Virgin Islands, weaving Indigenous and Western knowledge systems to explore the impacts of colonial settlement and climate change on water resources for the Shoshone-Bannock/Newe people, and how Puerto Rican community members along the Connecticut River are adapting farming practices to changing flood hazards. 

 

Current Fellows

Former Fellows

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