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• *PDH Credit*- May 2024 Meeting: Dr. Maddy Nyblade, SUNY ESF "Geoscience, Colonialism, and Just Ways Forward: A Minnesota Case-Study"

  • When
    Wednesday, May 01, 2024
  •  
    5:00 PM - 8:30 PM
  • Location
    Spaghetti Warehouse

  Register

  5:00-6:00 pm Networking

  6:00-6:45 Dinner

  6:45-8:00 Presentation

  Please note that the registration options have changed.

  After experimenting with a different approach last month, we have reverted back to the old registration method.  If you would like to receive PDH credit you must register for the *PDH Credit* event.  If not, then register for *NO PDH*

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  Bio: Dr. Maddy Nyblade is an assistant professor at SUNY ESF and the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment. She completed her BS in Geoscience at Penn State and her PhD in Earth and Environmental Science at the University of Minnesota. She researches the hydrologic impacts of climate and land cover change on culturally significant plants in partnership with Indigenous Nations. 

  Abstract: The mainstream geological sciences have roots in colonization, yet geologists rarely interrogate the complex ways our science, our scientists, and our stories of science benefit the dominant society at the expense of Indigenous Nations. Without this critical analysis, the geology we teach and practice inaccurately appears as neutral and unattached to the genocide and land dispossession of Indigenous Peoples. This colonialism is evident in Minnesota's history: geologic mapping contributed to and was funded by land dispossession from Indigenous Peoples, specifically the Dakota, Ojibwe (Chippewa), and Ho-Chunk. In response to these critical reflections, geoscientists are (re)writing policy, commitments, and curriculum, as well as developing collaborations, all to uphold our obligations to Indigenous Nations and work towards justice in Minnesota and beyond. 

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• *NO PDH Credit*- May 2024 Meeting: Dr. Maddy Nyblade, SUNY ESF "Geoscience, Colonialism, and Just Ways Forward: A Minnesota Case-Study"

  • When
    Wednesday, May 01, 2024
  •  
    5:00 PM - 8:30 PM
  • Location
    Spaghetti Warehouse

  Register

  5:00-6:00 pm Networking

  6:00-6:45 Dinner

  6:45-8:00 Presentation

  Please note that the registration options have changed.

  After experimenting with a different approach last month, we have reverted back to the old registration method.  If you would like to receive PDH credit you must register for the *PDH Credit* event.  If not, then register for *NO PDH*

  **************************************************

  Bio: Dr. Maddy Nyblade is an assistant professor at SUNY ESF and the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment. She completed her BS in Geoscience at Penn State and her PhD in Earth and Environmental Science at the University of Minnesota. She researches the hydrologic impacts of climate and land cover change on culturally significant plants in partnership with Indigenous Nations. 

  Abstract: The mainstream geological sciences have roots in colonization, yet geologists rarely interrogate the complex ways our science, our scientists, and our stories of science benefit the dominant society at the expense of Indigenous Nations. Without this critical analysis, the geology we teach and practice inaccurately appears as neutral and unattached to the genocide and land dispossession of Indigenous Peoples. This colonialism is evident in Minnesota's history: geologic mapping contributed to and was funded by land dispossession from Indigenous Peoples, specifically the Dakota, Ojibwe (Chippewa), and Ho-Chunk. In response to these critical reflections, geoscientists are (re)writing policy, commitments, and curriculum, as well as developing collaborations, all to uphold our obligations to Indigenous Nations and work towards justice in Minnesota and beyond. 

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