COUPLING HUMAN AND MACHINE KNOWLEDGE TO OPTIMIZE TRIBAL FOOD SYSTEMS

Objective 1. Develop first-ever continuous soil property maps for Southwestern U.S. Tribes for addressing climate change.Subobj. 1.1. Hardening and preserving traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) for future generations in tandem with remotely sensed point data for visualizing soil-landscape health and improving agricultural resiliency to extreme weather events.Subobj. 1.2. Develop soil health index maps on Tribal Lands for optimizing agricultural production.Subobj. 1.3. Develop crop suitability maps for culturally important indigenous crops.Objective 2. Deliver technology and digital soil mapping information through extension and outreach.Subobj. 2.1. Develop an App for housing continuous soil property maps for producers to obtain real-time spatially explicit soil information and for the democratization of technology.Subobj. 2.2. Conduct workshops, training events, and field days to train Tribes in App and map use and conduct transfer technology.Objective 3. Native Food Summit with emphasis on technology, TEK, and soil-landscape ecology.