Research
“I use paleolimnological techniques coupled with Indigenous protocols specific to the communities in which I work to track environmental changes over time. My work in my home region of treaty #9 territory focuses on tracking centennial scale changes in Long Lake in response to mining, logging, settlement, and the Long Lake Diversion of 1939 in ways that are appropriate to Anishinaabe culture. My work with Kionywarihwaen (Crawford Lake) in Treaty #19 (Ajetance Purchase) focuses on millennial scale changes of the region in response to changing climate and settlement activities in ways that are appropriate to Wyandot and Anishinaabe cultures. My research specializes in isotope dating, diatom and chrysophyte identification and interpretation, and geochemical techniques as well as integration of Indigenous cultural practices and protocols around knowledge seeking and sharing.”
