Chris Norment is a professor of environmental science and biology at The College at Brockport, State University of New York. His book Return to Warden’s Grove: Science, Desire and the Lives of Sparrows was nominated for the John Burroughs Medal. Norment earned his PhD in systematics and ecology from the University of Kansas. He has published extensively in ecology, avian breeding biology, grassland ecology, and the ecology of arctic and alpine environments.
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Samantha Hatfield
Dr. Samantha Chisholm Hatfield is an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians, from the Tututni Band, and is also Cherokee. She earned a Doctorate from Oregon State University in Environmental Sciences focusing on Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) of Siletz Tribal Members, from Oregon State University. Dr. Chisholm Hatfield’s specializations include: Indigenous TEK, tribal adaptations due to climate change, and Native culture issues. She’s worked with Oregon Climate Change Research Institute and the Northwest Climate Science Center.
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Nancy Lord
Nancy Lord is passionate about place, history, and the natural environment. From her many years of commercial salmon fishing and, later, work as a naturalist and historian on adventure cruise ships, she’s explored in both fiction and nonfiction the myths and realities of life in the north.
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The Importance of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) When Examining Climate Change
Originally published on the Union of Concerned Scientists It all started with a simple conversation over lunch. The fuse had been lit, the spark began, and the first step had occurred in my journey, unbeknownst to me at the time. Later that day, I realized, for the...
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Courtney Carlson
Courtney Carlson is a writer and Assistant Professor at the Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources at the University of Wyoming. She has studied at both Boston College and Mansfield College, and currently resides in Laramie, Wyoming.
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Anne Haven McDonnell
Anne Haven McDonnell is a poet and assistant faculty member at the Institute of American Indian Arts. She lives in Santa Fe with her partner and her old dog, and has published poems in The Georgia Review, Flyway: Journal of Writing and Environment, Whitefish Review, Fourth River, Crab Creek Review, and Terrain.org. She holds an Interdisciplinary MA degree in Environmental Humanities from Prescott College and has been the recipient of the American Indian College Fund Master’s fellowship with the Mellon Foundation.
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Ellen Waterston
Ellen Waterston is a poet, author and literary arts advocate. She is the author of Vía Láctea: A Woman of a Certain Age Walks the Camino, Where the Crooked River Rises, and a memoir, Then There Was No Mountain, which was rated one of the top ten books of 2003 by the Oregonian and a WILLA finalist. After eleven years as founder/director of The Nature of Words, a literary arts nonprofit, she passed the baton in 2012 to focus on the Writing Ranch, the Waterston Desert Writing Prize and her writing. Founded by Waterston in 2000, the Writing Ranch offers writing workshops and retreats.
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John S. Farnsworth
John S. Farnsworth studies literary natural history and Anglo-American nature writing. He also dabbles in historical ecology, environmental rhetoric, and the history of environmental thought. He teaches Environmental Studies and Sciences at Santa Clara University, and consults on education for sustainability, especially concerning sustainability-across-the-curriculum programs at the university level.
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Elizabeth Rush
Elizabeth Rush is the author of many books including the recently released Still Lifes from a Vanishing City: Essays and Photographs from Yangon, Myanmar. Her work chronicles communities being irrevocably changed by late capitalist industrialization, and has appeared or is forthcoming in Granta, Orion, The New Republic, Le Monde Diplomatique, Al Jazeera, Witness, the Huffington Post, Frieze, Nowhere, Asian Geographic, The Dark Mountain Project and others.
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Josh Krute
I often explore outside of city limits, being immersed in diverse natural settings along the coast or cascade mountain ranges. I am inspired when finding the remains of tree forms – whether I come across a tree clearing, and slash and burn pile, or an abandoned structure, these forms and environments exist because of the alterations made by our human kind. I understand it is my responsibility to convey and preserve a wooden object’s character, ecological history, and the relationship between the natural world and man’s adaptation of it, including my own.
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