Incorporating Climate and Environmental Justice into Research and Resource Management: Case Studies: Showcasing regional differences in climate and environmental justice applications
In this webinar, speakers Bobbie Buzzell, Christa Mulder, and Kamuela Plunkett discuss regional differences in climate and environmental justice applications in science research.
Webinar Date
April 11 at 3 PM ET
Webinar Series Summary
The National CASC hosted a virtual webinar series on "Incorporating Climate and Environmental Justice into Research and Resource Management" that discusses how to integrate principles of climate and environmental justice into research and resource management. It ran bi-weekly from February 29 to May 9, 2024 and explores the ethics around engaging with the populations most vulnerable to the impacts of environmental and climate change, which are often low-income communities, communities of color, Indigenous and Tribal communities, and people facing disenfranchisement. The series is meant to be of particular value to researchers looking to apply justice principles to their own work and communities seeking to lay out clear expectations for the researchers they collaborate with. Learn more about the series here.
Webinar Summary
In this webinar, speakers Bobbie Buzzell, Christa Mulder, and Kamuela Plunkett discuss regional differences in climate and environmental justice applications in science research.
More about the Speakers
Bobbie Buzzell (pronounced Buzz-elle) is a fisheries biologist for the Natural Resources Department with Lummi Nation, located just north of Bellingham, Washington near the Canadian border. Bobbie is a double alum from Western Washington University where she completed her BS of biology in 2012 and MS of biology in 2021. She worked for the Makah Tribe at the start of her graduate work, trapping invasive green crab and collecting river otter scats to explore whether river otter predation of green crab could act as a natural buffer of green crab establishment. Her study’s focus on green crab ultimately led to her current position at Lummi Natural Resources, where she leads a “Prospecting Team” to determine the distribution and abundance of green crab on Lummi Reservation Tidelands
Christa Mulder is a professor of plant ecology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Originally from the Netherlands, she lived all over the world before settling down in Alaska for the past 23 years. Much of her research is focused on how climate change is impacting boreal and arctic plants and the people who depend on them. She is passionate about ensuring that people from every walk of life have the opportunity to participate in asking and answering scientific questions, with a particular focus on youth from rural communities and youth in foster care.
Kamuela Plunkett has a bachelor’s degree in anthropology and archaeology from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa where he focused on traditional Hawaiian food systems and Polynesian migration. Today Kamuela resides within the traditional land units of his childhood in Puʻukapu, Waimea. For his master’s thesis in Heritage Management from the University of Hawai‘i at Hilo, Kamuela developed a landscape model that spatially and temporally re-presented traditional and early historic land-uses for Waimea, a traditional sub-district on Hawai‘i Island. Shortly after obtaining his master’s degree, Kamuela, with his background in comparing traditional and current land-use systems, was hired by the Hawai‘i County Planning Department as a Long-Range Land-Use Planner. This work involved working with communities and other State and County regulators to uphold land-use criteria set forth in various Community Development Plans, and the County’s General Plan. In 2022 Kamuela took the opportunity to leverage his previous experience and apply it to climate adaptation as an ORISE Fellow with PI-CASC.
Resources
- Maximizing Trap Efficiency on Lummi Nation Estuarine Habitats to Reduce Ecosystem Impacts from Invasive European Green Crab
- Alaska’s Berry Future: Planning for Changing Resources in an Altered Climate
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In this webinar, speakers Bobbie Buzzell, Christa Mulder, and Kamuela Plunkett discuss regional differences in climate and environmental justice applications in science research.
Webinar Date
April 11 at 3 PM ET
Webinar Series Summary
The National CASC hosted a virtual webinar series on "Incorporating Climate and Environmental Justice into Research and Resource Management" that discusses how to integrate principles of climate and environmental justice into research and resource management. It ran bi-weekly from February 29 to May 9, 2024 and explores the ethics around engaging with the populations most vulnerable to the impacts of environmental and climate change, which are often low-income communities, communities of color, Indigenous and Tribal communities, and people facing disenfranchisement. The series is meant to be of particular value to researchers looking to apply justice principles to their own work and communities seeking to lay out clear expectations for the researchers they collaborate with. Learn more about the series here.
Webinar Summary
In this webinar, speakers Bobbie Buzzell, Christa Mulder, and Kamuela Plunkett discuss regional differences in climate and environmental justice applications in science research.
More about the Speakers
Bobbie Buzzell (pronounced Buzz-elle) is a fisheries biologist for the Natural Resources Department with Lummi Nation, located just north of Bellingham, Washington near the Canadian border. Bobbie is a double alum from Western Washington University where she completed her BS of biology in 2012 and MS of biology in 2021. She worked for the Makah Tribe at the start of her graduate work, trapping invasive green crab and collecting river otter scats to explore whether river otter predation of green crab could act as a natural buffer of green crab establishment. Her study’s focus on green crab ultimately led to her current position at Lummi Natural Resources, where she leads a “Prospecting Team” to determine the distribution and abundance of green crab on Lummi Reservation Tidelands
Christa Mulder is a professor of plant ecology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Originally from the Netherlands, she lived all over the world before settling down in Alaska for the past 23 years. Much of her research is focused on how climate change is impacting boreal and arctic plants and the people who depend on them. She is passionate about ensuring that people from every walk of life have the opportunity to participate in asking and answering scientific questions, with a particular focus on youth from rural communities and youth in foster care.
Kamuela Plunkett has a bachelor’s degree in anthropology and archaeology from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa where he focused on traditional Hawaiian food systems and Polynesian migration. Today Kamuela resides within the traditional land units of his childhood in Puʻukapu, Waimea. For his master’s thesis in Heritage Management from the University of Hawai‘i at Hilo, Kamuela developed a landscape model that spatially and temporally re-presented traditional and early historic land-uses for Waimea, a traditional sub-district on Hawai‘i Island. Shortly after obtaining his master’s degree, Kamuela, with his background in comparing traditional and current land-use systems, was hired by the Hawai‘i County Planning Department as a Long-Range Land-Use Planner. This work involved working with communities and other State and County regulators to uphold land-use criteria set forth in various Community Development Plans, and the County’s General Plan. In 2022 Kamuela took the opportunity to leverage his previous experience and apply it to climate adaptation as an ORISE Fellow with PI-CASC.
Resources
- Maximizing Trap Efficiency on Lummi Nation Estuarine Habitats to Reduce Ecosystem Impacts from Invasive European Green Crab
- Alaska’s Berry Future: Planning for Changing Resources in an Altered Climate
Webinar Recording
Interested in Exploring Our Other Webinars?
Check out previously recorded webinars on our website!