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Gikinoo’wizhiwe Onji Waaban (Guiding for Tomorrow)

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Changing Climate, Changing Culture Initiative A New Model for Climate Change Literacy & Action

Cathy Techtmann- Environmental Outreach State Specialist University of Wisconsin-Extension NOAA Climate Steward

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Funding Provided by: G-WOW Project Partners

Additional technical support and resources

Wisconsin climate science research, climate maps, interactive climate mapping tools Assessments of climate change for northern Wisconsin forests and habitats Multi-cultural examples of climate change impacts

Project Location:

Located in the heart of the Lake Superior Chippewa (Ojibwe) Indian Country. This area includes 11 Ojibwe Tribes living within the “Ceded Territory” Based at the Northern Great Lakes Visitor Center Ashland, WI

Applicable to other locations & cultures

G-WOW Roots

• Increasing evidence that climate change is affecting the sustainability of

Lake Superior coastal resources, communities, and cultures

• Concern about climate change impacts to Ojibwe treaty rights and

traditional cultural practices within the Ceded Territory

• “Traditional” climate literacy models were not resonating with audiences

Diverse project partners came together as the G-WOW Team to develop a new climate change educational outreach strategy

“…local, place-based evidence of climate change gained through experiential learning is as, or more effective than, simply studying analytical climate change data to increasing climate change literacy.”

“The Psychology of Climate Change Communication”, Columbia University 2009

Research basis for the G-WOW Model

The Lake Superior Ojibwe have relied on the sustainability of key plant and animal species for generations to support subsistence, cultural, and spiritual practices or “lifeways” Tribes have traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) of natural systems that provides place-based indicators of climate change impacts for people of all cultures

Unprecedented cancellations of tribal wild rice harvests and poor harvest years (2007-2012)

Place-based Evidence

Lake Superior ice cover at Bayfield, Wisconsin has decreased approximately 3 days/decade or 45 days over the past 150 years Lake Superior reached near record lows by 2013

From 1950-2006:

• +1ºF over all temperature increase
• +2 - 2.5ºF increase in NW Wisconsin.

Scientific evidence of a Changing Climate WI has gotten warmer & wetter over the past 60 years

Historic (1950-2006)

Projected (1980-2055)

A1B Scenario

OVERALL WARMING

Change in Average Annual Temps +4-9ºF Average +12 days growing season Drought

WARMER WINTERS

Decrease in Frequency of Cold Nights (70% decrease in northern WI) Less ice cover on lakes, more evaporation More precip as rain, not snow

EXTREME WEATHER

Up to 4.5 inch annual mean increase in precip, but a projected 25% increase in the frequency of 2-inch or greater rainfall events

2014

Record or near-record cold for the Midwest Alaska warmest since records began in 1918 (National Weather Service) Globally the hottest year on record

(NOAA)

You had to ask… what about 2014?

2015 ??

2015

Record cold & snowfall for eastern cities Alaska: 40-degrees above average, record high temps for February Second hottest January on record (NOAA). Oceans at 3rd warmest Warmest March on record. Highest CO2 level ever at 400 parts per million 9 out of the past 10 years have been the warmest on record

Our Goal through G-WOW

• Place-based evidence of climate change
• Climate change scientific research.

Increase awareness of climate change impacts on the sustainability of resources, cultures, and communities by integrating: Create an e-z to understand climate literacy model , transferable to other cultures & locations Fight climate change with change through service learning

G-WOW Key Principles

• Climate change is real
• Humans contribute to climate change
• Weather and climate are different
• Climate affects culture
• We can make a difference!

Projected change in Wisconsin’ s annual average temperatures in ºF , 1980-2055 Harvesting birch bark- a boreal species that relies on a cool climate

Why Is the G-WOW Model Unique?

It based on understanding how climate change affects habitat conditions needed for the sustainability of plant or animal species that supports a cultural practice.

• Creates a culturally relevant climate change perspective
• Links cultural, place-based evidence with scientific climate research
• Makes the model transferrable across different cultures
• Promotes action through service learning

G-WOW uses impacts on Ojibwe cultural practices as an indicator of a changing climate for all cultures

The Ojibwe lifeway of wild rice harvesting depends on the sustainability of manoomin. The sustainability of manoomin depends on habitats with:

• shallow water
• moderate water level fluctuations
• cool growing season temperatures

Appling G-WOW model: Wild Ricing

Manoomin (wild rice) is an important species to the Ojibwe for subsistence, spiritual, and ceremonial purposes.

Place-based evidence of climate change affecting the sustainability of manoomin?

Annual average temperatures in ºF ,

Do Culture and Science Agree?

Frequency of 90-degree days Change in frequency of 2” + precip

Scientific evidence of climate change affecting the sustainability of manoomin?

HEAT DROUGHT GUSHERS 2007 - 2012: Significant changes observed in wild rice harvests and yields based on TEK due to drought, fungal disease, storms

Cultural Practice Key Species

Place-based & Scientific Evidence

Requires cool moist forest habitats, cold winters for sugar production

What does this mean for sustainability of sugar maple, the businesses the rely on sugar maple?

Projected frequency of days

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1980-2055

Example: G-WOW application

Cultural Practice Key Species

Place-based and Scientific Evidence

Requires cold water habitats with high oxygen levels

Climate models predict up to 95% of Wisconsin’s brook trout habitat across could be lost if the average annual summer air temperature increased just over 5 º F.

Projected change in Wisconsin’ s annual average summer temperatures in ºF , 1980-2055

Example: G-WOW application

Example: G-WOW application, South Milwaukee HS, WI

Cultural Practice

Requires cool water. Warmer water also favors invasives that compete with Yellow Perch

How could the G-WOW model engage students in the issue

• f climate change?

Credit: GLERL.

Perch fish fry

Cultural Practice

Invasive Burmese python: requires very warm, moist “tropical” habitats

Example: G-WOW application, Southern Florida

Increase in 95+- degree day/year, 2041-2070.

What does a changing climate mean for the sustainability of this invasive species? How could this affect recreation, nature-based tourism economies?

Hiking in the Everglades Large circles = 50 or more pythons captured

Cultural Practice Key “condition”

Place-based and Scientific Evidence

Projected change in Wisconsin’ s winter average temperatures in ºF , 1980-2055

What do these changes mean for species and cultural practices that depend on cold and snow?

Example: applying the G-WOW model to a “non-species” dependent cultural practice

Cultural Practice

What habitat conditions does the species need to survive and thrive?

Your Turn--Create Your Own G-WOW model

Do culture and science agree? What implications does this have for your community?

What cultural practice do you enjoy? What species is needed to support this practice? What changes are you seeing in the key species or in the habitats it needs? What changes in environmental variables critical to supporting these habitat conditions are projected by climate science? Variables may

include: temperature, precipitation, drought, intense rain/ storms, humidity, etc.

Ojibwe Lifeways

Place-based evidence of climate impacts on 4-seasonal Ojibwe cultural practices

Investigate the Science

Climate science from federal, state, and tribal sources

Culture informing Science

The G-WOW MODEL COMPONENTS What Can We Do?

Taking action through climate service learning projects

Talking Circle

Sharing service learning projects via an interactive blog

 Do culture and science agree… is climate change affecting the sustainability of the key species that supports an Ojibwe lifeway?  What is the future for this cultural practice based on place-based evidence and scientific climate change projections?  What do these changes mean for the cultural practices you enjoy, the environment, community, economy?

… then engages learners to act through service learning

 What can we do to mitigate or adapt to climate change impacts?

The G-WOW model guides investigation…

G-WOW Curriculum Outreach Tools

Experiential learning Ojibwe language, TEK, and cultural elements infused Multi-cultural perspectives

Web Curriculum

www.g-wow.org

Educator Training Institutes Climate Change Discovery Center

TARGET AUDIENCES

Learners (middle school & above) Teachers-Educators General Public

G-WOW Website and Curriculum www.g-wow.org

On-line climate change service learning curriculum

Ojibwe Lifeways

Winter

Ojibwe Lifeway:

Respecting Our Culture

Key species:

American marten

Spring

Ojibwe Lifeway:

Maple sugaring and Birch bark harvesting

Key species:

Sugar maple and paper birch trees Summer

Ojibwe Lifeway:

Fishing

Key species:

Cold and coolwater fish Fall

Ojibwe Lifeway:

Wild Ricing

Key species:

Manoomin

Learning objectives Cultural connection: importance of the key species to culture Baseline ecological information: habitat conditions needed for sustainability of the key species(s) depends on Place-based evidence of how climate change impacts key species Each Ojibwe Lifeway unit includes:

Students investigate place-based evidence within their culture. Activity Guides guide student investigations.

Linked to an Ojibwe Lifeway unit, customized for that unit. A toolbox to investigate and evaluate scientific climate change research via interactive maps and soon NASA climate. Students research climate trends and projections & evaluate impacts on the sustainability of key species.

Investigate the Science

“Test It” : students test their own climate change hypothesis through self-designed investigations. Activity Guides focus student investigations.

• Students act on knowledge gained to develop a service learning project

to address climate change impacts in their community

• Provides service learning project templates and ideas

What Can We Do?

Ready-made project templates such as Project Budburst, climate phenology wheels, climate collages provide fun, service learning

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• Students share results of their service learning project through this web blog
• Projects are segmented by location and type

Talking Circle

Online tools allow students to evaluate their project impacts

Other G-WOW Website Resources

Teacher Resources

G-WOW Curriculum Guide Teacher Training vignettes News & opportunities

Games

Interactive climate change games

Climate Change

Climate literacy basics

About

Project background Partner acknowledgements

Contact

For more information

TEST DRIVE www.g-wow.org

4-day experiential professional development based on the G-WOW model Location: Northern Great Lakes Visitor Center-Ashland, WI; Apostle Island National Lakeshore; tribal communities of Red Cliff and Bad River.

Stockton Island Climate Walk Kakagon Sloughs Tribal Manoomin Tour

G-WOW Changing Climate, Changing Culture Institute

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Major exhibit and interactive kiosk located at the Northern Great Lakes Visitor Center, Ashland, WI 130,000 visitors, students, community members annually

G-WOW Changing Climate, Changing Culture Discovery Center

Northern Great Lakes Visitor Center, Ashland WI

G-WOW Discovery Center Interactive Kiosk

The G-WOW curriculum in a specially designed interactive format for touch screen use.

Let’s Play “CLIMATE QUIZ”

The kiosk includes videos, many interactive tools, and

games!

Ripples…

• Partnering with the Fond du Lac Tribal College (Duluth, MN) to expand the G-WOW

model throughout Ojibwe Ceded Territory via a $1.09 million NASA Innovations in Climate Education-Tribal (NICE-T) grant.

• Partnering with Chicago Botanical Garden’s EPA climate initiative integrating G-WOW

model into regional climate change outreach.

• Sharing the G-WOW model to increase climate change literacy to people of all

cultures.

The G-WOW Initiative & Team received 2013 Honor Award from the Eastern Region of the US Forest Service for “Courageous Conservation”

We invite you to use and expand the G-WOW model to increase climate change literacy based on the unique lifeways of your culture

www.g-wow.org

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For more information, please contact Cathy Techtmann-Environmental Outreach State Specialist University of Wisconsin-Extension 715.561.2695 catherine.techtmann@ces.uwex.edu http://fyi.uwex.edu/nglvc/