This presentation focuses on the role of Indigenous peoples in community-based water quality monitoring and governance. The project arises from a long-term research partnership with the Yukon River Inter-Tribal Watershed Council.
Dr. Nicole Wilson is an Assistant Professor and a Canada Research Chair in Arctic Environmental Change and Governance in the Department of Environment and Geography at the University of Manitoba. She is a scholar of settler origin whose research interests focus on Indigenous peoples, environmental governance, and environmental change in the Arctic. She earned her PhD from the University of British Columbia in Resource Management and Environmental Studies.
Dr. Edda Mutter is the Science Director with the Yukon River Inter-Tribal Watershed Council.
Tasha Mockta is the Environmental and Outreach Coordinator with the Yukon River Inter-Tribal Watershed Council. She is Yup'ik and Hopi.
Community-Based Monitoring as the practice of Indigenous governance: A case study of Indigenous-led water quality monitoring in the Yukon River Basin Download PDF
Tribal Water Quality Governance