James Rattling Leaf
Director Education B.S., Environmental Science, University of Colorado-Boulder Land and Natural Resource Program Director of the Geo-Spatial Applications Center and the Sicangu Policy Institute, Sinte Gleska University, South Dakota Mr. Rattling Leaf manages a wide area of education, research and outreach activities that utilize GIS, GPS and remote sensing tools to develop programs designed to increase leadership capabilities and technological consciousness within Tribal Colleges and Universities. Recent grants from NASA Research, Education, Applications Solutions Network and from NASA Goddard, NSF, NOAA, USGS Earth Science and Climate Change Programs have been part of these efforts. Active in establishing partnerships in the Upper Midwest Aerospace Consortium, he has also taken a leading role in establishing a new partnership model between government, industry and tribal communities, one result of which was the implementation of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the USGS. |
