Invited Ethnobotany Panel at the 2022 Alaska Forum on the Environment: Where Culture and Plants Entwine Presenters: Meda DeWitt: People, Plants, and Culture: Understanding through an Indigenous Lens of Interdependent Relationships. Julie Rowland: Overharvesting of Fiddleheads in Southcentral Alaska Lisa Strecker: The UAF Ethnobotany Program Ethnobotany is the interdisciplinary study …
Students can now enroll in the new degree OEC Ethnobotany! Find more information here.
In late July 2021, EBOT instructor Lisa Strecker joined the Ethnobotany instructor team, Sara Murray and Gloria Simeon, to work with local Elders and youth from all over the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. Please have a look at the KYUK contribution by Kaylee King (Aug 27, 2021): Annual ONC Science And Culture …
In the 2021 UAF Kuskokwim Campus graduation ceremony, 23 students were awarded a Certificate in Ethnobotany; three students who had earned their certificate in 2020 were celebrated as well. Two more students earned a Minor in Ethnobotany (Shannon Cleary, Fort Wainwright and Shelby Clark, Tok). Congratulations to all of you!! …
Watch the 2021 UAF Kuskokwim Campus graduation keynote address by Yup’ik Elder and 2021 EBOT Certificate graduate Gloria June Al’apacuuk Simeon: Gloria Simeon keynote address. Please also read Gloria’s contribution to Speak Your Mind. Motivated by looming resource extraction projects in her region, Gloria Simeon reflected on her close relationship …
Please join us for the final student presentations of the 2021 EBOT 100 Cohort! Friday, August 6, 6-8 pm via Zoom, Password: EBOT
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 …
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 …
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 …
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!
