Current Projects
Strengthening Resilience of Ojibwe Nations Across Generations (STRONG)- Three parts of this work include:
- Synthesize traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) and scientific ecological knowledge (SEK) with new types of data to inform tribal governance for resilience in the face of climate change.
- Co-produce culturally appropriate resilience indicators to anticipate, respond to, and mitigate acute and chronic socio-ecological perturbations.
- Co-develop and deploy Noondawind, a dynamic, integrated, web-based governance platform to enhance resilience capabilities and support the use of resilience indicators in tribal governance.
- For additional information on the STRONG project visit: https://sites.northwestern.edu/strong/
- Qualitative data analysis of cases around the world
- Focus on communities experiencing resource conflict
- Utilizing research tools from EJ Atlas and QSR NVivo
- Institutional analysis of law, treaties, and other institutions (written and non-written)
- Research team utilizing qualitative and quantitative research tools
Environmental Impacts Graduate Working Group
We are an interdisciplinary group of grad students, bridging social sciences, humanities, and STEM, to connect and collaborate on writing, researching, and communicating work that addresses environmental challenges and impacts. This student group is supported by a faculty-led group, Disproportionate Impacts of Environmental Challenges, headed by Dr. Kimberly Marion Suiseeya and Dr. Jennifer Dunn. If you are interested in being added to our email list or attending our working group meetings, please fill out this interest survey.
As a student-led group, we are growing the community of like-minded people interested in conducting interdisciplinary work related to the environment. This graduate group is an opportunity to extend the faculty-led Working Group’s work to include graduate students also interested in research related to the Disproportionate Effects of Environmental Change. We aim to support graduate students in efforts to build new collaborations and networks within and outside the academy.
Winter and Spring 2022 Schedule