Engaging our community in scientific research
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In my current work examining which plants might be successful with climate change in the Washington Cascades, I am working with Methow Conservancy members in a local partnership. By participating in field work days, volunteers learned the benefits and limitations of field-based data and how climate change is affecting their region. At a recent talk, I showed how the data that we collected is giving us clues into which species will be successful as the climate warms.
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Teaching middle school students the fundamentals of ecological research is much more effective in a field setting, where they can conduct hands-on research. As part of Let's Talk Science, the University of British Columbia's Lessons Ecology and Evolution FUNdamentals pairs researchers with local schools to deliver hands-on classes. Here, we are establishing ecological monitoring plots at a middle school in Brackendale (Squamish Nation), British Columbia. |
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Graduate students experience anxiety and depression at rates much higher than the general population, and I am passionate about being a supportive peer and mentor in this realm. Through honesty, community, and support, we can lift each other up to create a joyous and fulfilling workplace.
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Download Luminous ID to contribute valuable data to science! This mobile application software will allow you to quickly identify alpine plants in the field. Your observations will provide long-term plant and geographical data useful to researchers at the Niwot Long-Term Ecological Research site (Apache, Arapaho, Cheyenne, Comanche, Pawnee, Shoshone, Sioux, and Ute Territories) studying the effects of climate change on species distributions and phenology (flowering events).
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For one of my Arctic field expeditions, I traveled to Qeqertarsuaq (Disko Island), Greenland (Kalaallit Lands) to help characterize plant communities across elevational gradients in detail. The resulting plant species, growth, soil, and climate data we collected will allow us to better understand how Arctic plant communities will respond to climate change.
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As climbers and hikers, we visit many sensitive regions, such as alpine ecosystems, and thus we have the responsibility to understand the consequences of our actions. Human disturbance is a major factor along with climate change that contributes to global change, and we need to improve our understanding of how this affects vulnerable ecosystems.
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It is the creativity from different genders, races, and ages that inspires innovation and ideas in scientific research, and not the suppression, in any form, of diversity. Only once pay equality is achieved across all disciplines and once the expertise of a woman is valued as much as that of a man, will the field of science fulfill its enormous potential.
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Multiple flora and fauna were threatened in the ecological and cultural important Baker and Pascua rivers in Chilean Patagonia (Mapuche/Araucanians, Hulliche, and Pehuenches Lands) by a proposed and controversial hydroelectric megaproject, which was rejected by the Chilean government in 2014 due to pressures from international environmental activism efforts.
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