The Indigenous CREATE program provides training opportunities for students who want to better understand ongoing changes in the environment by participating in research projects with Indigenous communities that aim to understand the implications of a diversity of stressors, including climate change, hydropower, mining, and wastewater. This program is specifically aimed at finding ways that serve the learning and employability needs of Indigenous trainees. The research conducted in this program will be holistic in approach and focus on both the environment and community well-being within the environmental sector (natural resources, energy, and the environment).
such as environmental contaminants and xenobiotics and in water flow that are in turn associated with changes in land use.
including wild rice, berries, and medicines as well as associated habitat, and implications of these for human well-being.
including lake sturgeon, whitefish and moose and the implications for community livelihoods and food security.
as a response to such environmental change.
with industry, governments and NGOs as well as the public regarding these findings.
of programs within communities that are related to the environment.
