Jesse Popp (University of Guelph)
November 19, 2024
Smathers Library 100
1 PM
The American Indian and Indigenous Studies (AIIS) Program at the University of Florida is honored to host Professor Jesse Popp, Chair in Indigenous Environmental Science at the University of Guelph, Canada, as our inaugural speaker in a new environmental seminar series.
This event is free and open to the public.
About the Speaker
Jesse Popp is a Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Environmental Science at the University of Guelph. She is a member of Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory with Anishinaabe and mixed European heritage, and strives to promote inclusive science that embraces multiple ways of knowing while on her journey of learning and sharing. As the PI of the Wildlife, Indigenous Science, Ecology (WISE) Lab, she and her research team work to weave Indigenous and Western knowledge systems to contribute to the advancement of environmental and ecological science. Together, the WISE Lab team embraces holistic and transdisciplinary research approaches to investigate ecological research questions identified by the Indigenous communities and organizations that they partner with. Through Indigenous-led projects that uplift Indigenous values and ways of knowing, Dr. Popp and her team contribute to environmental caretaking and the progression of the natural sciences in the spirit of reconciliation. Learn more at https://www.wiselab.ca/.
“Weaving Ways of Knowing Among the Trees” is sponsored by the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program, the George A. Smathers Libraries, the UF Land Use and Environmental Change Institute, the Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, and Imagining Climate Change.
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