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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!  

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 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 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 …

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 …

Interviewing a plant expert is one of the course assignments of Applied EBOT 250 and 251. The following interview was conducted by Sundance Visser during EBOT 251, Applied Ethnobotany Spring and is part of her own project on fermentation with berries. Bottles of mead from Sweetgale Meadworks, Homer, AK, Accessed …