ALT A digital drawing with the words Indigenous Knowledge is Science printed large in the middle. In the bottom half of the image, slightly covering the words, are a Maya pyramid, a cultural burn, and the Hōkūleʻa
The Drawing Water program is seeking student art & science interns again this summer! Excited to announce that I will be one of the artist they can work with!
The stipend is $7200 for the summer & housing is free!
limnology.wisc.edu/art-scien…#SciArt#NativeArtists#NativeScience
This is kinda like how I see today's Western world:
In hindsight, we see how traditional ecological knowledge (#TEK) and #nativescience was less technological and yet - more effective in the face of changing circumstances. Who could have known?
Too difficult to update current buildings? Back in the 1850s Engineers raised all of central Chicago so they could install a city-wide sewage system to eliminate numerous epidemics of typhoid fever, dysentery, and cholera ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raisin… ). H/T: @lisa_iannattone 5/
ALT Image showing Raising the Briggs House, a Chicago brick hotel, in 1866
I taught my first class at Northwest Indian College today. Now, I’m extracting eDNA from samples collected in Bellingham Bay, WA. I use liquid nitrogen to break open dinoflagellate cells as the first step of the extraction process. #NativeAmerican#STEM#nativescience#salishsea
"Ranalda [Tsosie] talks to host Aaron Scott about her path to becoming an environmental chemist to study the extent of contamination in her home community using a blend of western and Diné science methods." #nativesciencenpr.org/2022/04/13/109259721…
.@KnightCenter & @MetcalfURI received an @NSF grant for a 5-year research project & fellowship program! @DrBTakahashi & @SunshineMenezes are co-principal investigators of the project to help build & diversify the next generation of science communicators. bit.ly/3Jw2O1Z
ALT Creating more inclusive science communication training