Show Postdoctoral Researcher Indigenous Innovation in communities and climate readiness

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Starting annual salary of $72,000 USD with 3% COLA

3 Years

Location: University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Abundant Intelligences (AbInt) and the Hawai‘i Climate-Smart Partnership (HiCSC) is an initiative whoch aims to build capacity in data-driven, relational fields that interweave soils, agroecosystems, ʻāina momona (abundant land), Indigenous genealogy, and well-being into equitable climate-assessment frameworks for an abundant, sustainable future. This collaboration represents a multi-disciplinary effort combining western and Indigenous ways of knowing to address climate change challenges through innovative soil and land management practices.

The UH-based science and innovation team of the Hawaiʻi Climate-Smart Partnership is building capacity in data-driven, relational fields that interweave soils, agroecosystems, ʻāina momona, and indigenous genealogy and wellbeing into more just climate-assessment frameworks for an abundant future.

Work closely with interdisciplinary teams such as the Equity, Indigenous Knowledge and Innovation team, soil biogeochemists and ecologists, biophysical modelers, and social scientists, to create holistic frameworks that address community aspects of climate-smart agriculture to contribute to the development of a multi-metric of what is climate-smart. Collaborate closely with four other members of the Postdoctoral Team in Indigenous Innovation (AI, Data, and Climate Readiness), Life Cycle approach to Circular Economy, Climate Benefit of Sequestration, and Data Driven Decision Support as well as graduate students. Engage in ensuring equity, reciprocity and transparency in the definition of climate-smart by embedding Kānaka ʻŌiwi (Native Hawaiian) genealogies and community well-being into climate assessment frameworks, supported and mentored by the Director of the Office for Indigenous Knowledge and Innovation(OIKI), Kamuela Enos. Engage in the robust network of support within the Abundant Intelligence network and Hawai‘i Climate-Smart Partnership (HiCSC). Develop a collaborative, participatory study design and implementation of community based research with a cross-disciplinary team of researchers and students that includes community based studies, data collection, data analysis and reporting, including manuscript preparation. Central to the scope is storytelling and community building around the practices of aloha ʻāina (reverence for a living landscape) and ‘āina momona (the intentional cultivation of abundance) to make connections between land, climate, and environment in the context of climate change and the health and abundance of ʻāina and community.

If you are interested contact Dr. Susan Crow crows@hawaii.edu

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