Lani Tsinnajinnie
University of New Mexico, NM·Earth & Environmental Science
Rural and Indigenous communities in New Mexico and Oklahoma face floods, drought, wildfire and dust. Projections show both states growing hotter and drier, with more extreme events.
- Fields
Earth & Environmental Science
Social Science
Education Research
- Topics
climate resilience
extreme weather
Indigenous communities
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Aug 2028
What they work on
- Work with Indigenous and rural communities in New Mexico and Oklahoma, through a co-production process, to identify information needs about the land-water-air system under extreme weather.
- Install air quality monitoring systems and interpret in-situ and satellite air quality data to support community resilience to fire, dust and other extreme events.
- Study changes in water quantity so that communities can evaluate how shifting water supplies may affect food resilience and other community goals.
- Develop a summer internship program and a land-based science curriculum that connect students' lived experiences to extreme weather resilience.
More about the research
These changes affect how people live and work. This collaborative project asks how communities can build resilience to extreme weather through research partnerships they help lead. It aims to establish respectful, reciprocal and sustainable research and education partnerships.
Why it matters
Indigenous and rural communities in New Mexico and Oklahoma face growing risks from drought, fire, dust and floods. Local air quality monitoring, satellite data interpretation and water-supply research could give these communities usable information for adaptation, food resilience and planning. Internships and curricula aim to build local scientific capacity.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Closest labs
Richard Bixler
University of Texas at Austin, TX·Social Science
Identify at-risk Texas communities using social vulnerability data and mapping tools, then form reciprocal partnerships with 2-3 place-based communities to co-produce a resilience research agenda.
Jiakai Zhang
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, NM·Earth & Environmental Science
Integrate large public spatial, hazard and socioeconomic datasets into a single AI-driven model of regional environmental risk and vulnerability across the United States.
Andrew Gronewold
University of Michigan, MI·Earth & Environmental Science
Produce reliable projections of how often and how intensely climate-driven floods, droughts and related hazards will strike U.S.-Canada transboundary waters, starting with the Great Lakes, using statistical and process-based models.
The school
University of New Mexico: 27 labs on PI Pages, $355M a year on research, 182 research doctorates a year.
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