WISE Lab Claire Kemp wins 2022 Research Impact Canada Award!
WISE Lab Dr. Allyson Menzies Awarded Liber Ero Fellowship!
Dr. Allyson Menzies was awarded a Liber Ero Followship for her work on “Prioritizing Indigenous Values in Environmental Monitoring and Wildlife Conservation”. Congratulations Ally!
Summary: A major barrier to widespread implementation of decolonized approaches to environmental conservation is a general uncertainty of how to do so; while a number of frameworks describe how to work across cultures in theory (e.g., Two-Eyed Seeing, Two-Row Wampum), very few resources outline how to achieve this in practice. Generating practical resources, frameworks, and case studies that detail the tools, methodologies, and approaches that have been successful have the potential to inspire and guide future environmental initiatives that aim to weave knowledge systems to better observe, understand, and care for the environment. Finding ways to bridge knowledge systems in conservation is particularly important for species, like moose (Alces alces), that provide food, recreation, tools, clothing, art, and ceremony for Indigenous Peoples around the globe.
http://liberero.ca/meet-the-fellows/
https://news.uoguelph.ca/2022/02/two-u-of-g-post-doctoral-researchers-awarded-liber-ero-fellowships/
WISE Lab Brad Howie shares Anishinaabe forest knowledge
WISE Lab Brad Howie shares Anishinaabe forest knowledge: “From the Anishinaabe point of view, you are part of the forest, one of many beings there, all of equal importance.”
https://news.uoguelph.ca/2021/09/u-of-g-graduate-student-shares-anishinaabe-forest-knowledge/
Bringing Indigenous Ways of Knowing to U of G’s Arboretum
https://news.uoguelph.ca/2021/09/bringing-indigenous-ways-of-knowing-to-u-of-gs-arboretum/
Meet Brad Howie, MES Student in the WISE Lab!
WISE Lab team members win best presentation and poster at the OCTWS/CSTWS conference
A huge congratulations to WISE Lab team members Heather Patterson and Kyle Vincent for winning first place in best poster and presentation respectively at the Canadian Section and Ontario Chapter of the Wildlife Society conference! Way to go!
WISE Lab member Ella Bowles shares insights on two-eyed seeing in The Wildlife Professional
WISE Lab member Ella Bowles shares her past work and insights on two-eyed seeing in the July/August issue of The Wildlife Society’s “The Wildlife Professional” magazine: https://wildlife.org/tag/the-wildlife-professional/
Diandra Stacey Honoured with Chris Metallic Prize in Indigenous Leadership
WISE Lab team member Diandra Stacey was honoured with the Chris Metallic Prize in Indigenous Leadership for her contributions to the Indigenous Gardens project at Mount Allison University. Check out the website Diandra designed here: https://www.mta.ca/Community/Visitors/Things_to_do_and_see/Indigenous_Gardens/Indigenous_Gardens/
