EPA's Tribal ecoAmbassadors Program partners EPA scientists with Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCU) professors to address environmental problems. The Tribal ecoAmbassadors Program has given more than 150 TCU students the opportunity to work directly with their professors and EPA scientists.

2015-2016 Tribal ecoAmbassadors

• Dr. Daniel Wildcat
  Food Waste Reduction and Landscaping and Habitat Restoration Initiatives
• Institute of American Indian Arts – Dr. Annie McDonnell
  Creativity and Climate Resilience at the Institute of American Indian Arts
• Keweenaw Bay Ojibwa Community College – Dr. Andrew Kozich
  Monitoring of Water Temperature Trends in Focal Coldwater Fish Habitats of the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community
• Northwest Indian College – Dr. Ane Berrett
  Peoples and Plants Together in Wellness
• Salish Kootenai College – Dr. Jesse Stine
  Arsenic on Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribal Land
• Turtle Mountain Community College – Dr. Deborah Hunter
  Water Quality and Abnormal Leech Present in Waterbodies Located on the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians Reservation

Press Releases, Stories, and Videos

Students at Northwest Indian College test mollusks for biotoxins.

• 2015-2016 American Indian Higher Education Consortium Press Release Exit
• Arizona Public Media Piece on former Tribal ecoAmbassador Exit
• Four EPA Tribal ecoAmbassadors to Research Environment and Health in Indian Country Exit
• Local news story on Fond Du Lac College Tribal ecoAmbassador Project Exit
• American Indian Higher Education Consortium Exit
  (videos of last year's Tribal ecoAmbassador projects)