"Indigenous Skywatchers-Searching for Earth 2.0”

A Collaborative Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) between Native Skywatchers, St. Cloud State University, and the University of Southern Queensland

This remote and rigorous research experience gives Indigenous, post secondary, participants a first class, red carpet opportunity to directly and fully participate in Exoscience research and Indigenous astronomy research. Led by Faculty Annette S. Lee , Duncan Wright, Carolyn Brown, Duane Hamacher... with Graduate student mentors Jake Clark, Dan Peluso, and Nataliea Lowson.

Happening now! Northern Summer (Southern Hemisphere Winter) June 7 to July 31, 2021

Over the 8-week insentive cohort participants will be involved with:

• Exoplanet Research  
• Indigenous Astronomy Reserch  
• Astrobiology Connections  
• Remote Observing  
• Space and Ground Based Astronomy  
• Mount Kent Observatory  

We bring together the best in Western science and Indigenous science in the context of the theme, “Indgienous Skywatchers-Searching for Earth 2.0”, to participate in research, to publish results, to inspire curiosity, to ignite motivation, and to create community.  Einstein himself said “we cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them”.

As described by Mi’kmaw elders: Two-Eyed Seeing is learning to see from one eye with the strengths of Indigenous knowledges and ways of knowing, and from the other eye with the strengths of Western knowledges and ways of knowing, and to use both these eyes for the benefit of all. (Bartlett, Marshall and Marshall 2012, 336)

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