EBOT 100 Final Presentations!
Please join us for the final student presentations of the 2021 EBOT 100 Cohort! Friday, August 6, 6-8 pm via Zoom, Password: EBOT
EBOT 193 Ethnobotanical Internship at the Georgeson Botanical Garden
The Ethnobotany Program is pleased to offer an ethnobotanical garden internship in collaboration with the UAF Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station and specifically, the Georgeson Botanical Gardens (GBG) in Fairbanks. The for-credit internship will take place in-person at the GBG from June 14 to July 16, 2021. For details, please …
EBOT at WAISC – Ethnobotany Meets Invasive Plants Management
Ethnobotany Meets Invasive Plants Management – Considerations for Western Alaska Gooseberry Peter, UAF Cooperative Extension program assistant for invasive plants and EBOT instructor Lisa Strecker jointly presented at the virtual Western Alaska Interdisciplinary Science Conference and Forum (WAISC), May 13-14, 2021. Abstract This presentation is the product of an ongoing …
EBOT Student Sundance Visser presenting at WAISC
Wild-Harvested Plants and Social Media The Cultural, Economic and Nutritional Value of Wild-Harvested Plants and How Social Media Can Help Shortly after earning her EBOT Certificate, Sundance Visser presented a poster of her work on Wild-Harvested Plants and Social Media at the virtual 2021 Western Alaska Interdisciplinary Science Conference and …
Wild Plants in Alaska’s Food System
My third project for Applied Ethnobotany is a research project about wild plants within Alaska’s food system. This blog post is an adaptation of my final paper for an introductory food systems class in the Prescott College Master’s in Sustainable Food Systems program, available here for feedback. Land Acknowledgement I …
Speaking of Anthropology featuring Ethnobotany on KSUA
The Ethnobotany Program was featured by UAF’s Anthropology Society. Dillon McIntire and Kevin Huo interviewed EBOT faculty Lisa Strecker for Episode 43 of Speaking of Anthropology. You can listen to the full recording on their website. Thanks to Dillon and Kevin for the opportunity to talk ethnobotany!
New Yup’ik Plants Book – Meet the Authors on May 14!
Meet the authors of – Fienup-Riordan, A., Rearden, A., Meade, M. and Jernigan, K., 2021. Yungcautnguuq Nunam Qainga Tamarmi/the Entire Surface of the Land Is Medicine: Edible and Medicinal Plants of Southwest Alaska. University of Alaska Press. Friday, May 14, 6-7 pm Zoom link Meeting ID: 821 1865 1768 Passcode: …
EBOT students present at UAF’s One Health Conference 2021
EBOT students Shelby Braun, Pier Imbriano and Sundance Visser presented hands-on projects that they conducted as part of the Applied Ethnobotany classes at the One Health, One Future Conference organized by the University of Alaska Fairbanks Center for One Health Research in Spring 2021. Watch a short video of the …
Lakota Elder Jerome Kills Small guest speaking during final EBOT 200 class
Lakota Elder Dr. Jerome Kills Small graciously agreed to join our final session of the Seminar in Ethnobotany. Jerome shared stories, his wisdom and a song related to plant protocol in ceremony, the importance of olfactory experience in rituals, plants used for incense and smoke, and other topics, such as …
May 14, 2021 BOOK RELEASE – Edible and Medicinal Plants of Southwest Alaska
From the Bethel public library: Save the date! We will get a flyer and Zoom link out next week. We have a fantastic author panel with Ann Fienup-Riordan, Alice Rearden, Marie Meade, and Kevin Jernigan on May 14th at 6 pm on Zoom. The discussion will be about the new …