{"id":1764,"date":"2025-05-27T18:01:06","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T18:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/braidingknowledgescanada.ca\/?page_id=1764"},"modified":"2026-01-21T21:17:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T21:17:54","slug":"environmental-monitoring","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/braidingknowledgescanada.ca\/en\/impact-connectors\/environmental-monitoring\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmental Monitoring"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"1764\" class=\"elementor elementor-1764\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-31dc490 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"31dc490\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3fcec9d e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"3fcec9d\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cd73c61 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"cd73c61\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e189035 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"e189035\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-674e140 elementor-widget elementor-widget-template\" data-id=\"674e140\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"template.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-template\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"section\" data-elementor-id=\"1333\" class=\"elementor elementor-1333\" data-elementor-post-type=\"elementor_library\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2c4a861 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"2c4a861\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-34bb539 missing-translation-banner elementor-alert-info elementor-widget elementor-widget-alert\" data-id=\"34bb539\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"alert.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<style>.elementor-element-34bb539{display:none !important}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5bc3b00 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"5bc3b00\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Community-Informed Approaches to Environmental Monitoring<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0fc63ae elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"0fc63ae\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The overall purpose of this project is to engage with communities in the braiding of Indigenous Science and Western Science approaches to i) understand places and spaces; and ii) monitor environmental and ecological changes on seasonal to century timescales can be accomplished.<\/p><p>This work will be primarily conducted early career researchers (undergraduates, interns, graduate students, and PostDocs) supervised by Drs. Myrle Ballard (Earth, Energy and Environment), Allyson Menzies (Biological Science) and Kerry Black (Civil Engineering).<\/p><p>Dr. Ballard\u2019s work will focus through the lens of the original, indigenous names of places and spaces and their connection to water. This work will be conducted along the Lake Winnipeg Watershed, including S\u2019katchewan (Saskatchewan), Obuskudayang (Lake St. Martin First Nation, referring to \u2018Land of the Prairies\u2019) and S\u2019katchewanung (Dauphin River) watersheds in Manitoba and will build out to additional watersheds as appropriate relationships are developed. In addition to viewing the watershed through its original place names, the work will collate western science information (e.g., water quality, river flow, lake levels, open water season, etc.). Dr. Ballard\u2019s work will also consider the history of the watershed and its community, and its water influenced socioeconomic aspects. Dr. Ballard\u2019s work is innovative as she has developed a three-eyed seeing framework which includes the lenses of Indigenous Science, Western Science, and our relations.<\/p><p>Dr. Menzies work will focus on Indigenous and Metis community-based monitoring of culturally significant species (e.g., moose in the prairie landscape, geese in the James Bay region). She will start working with communities which she has an existing relationship (e.g., Misipawistak Cree Nation, Opaskwayak Cree Nation, and Wuskwi Sipihk First Nation) seeks to develop community-based wildlife monitoring programs that prioritize community knowledge and values along with Western Science approaches to provide tangible examples of braiding knowledges in a good way.<\/p><p>Dr. Black will seek to initiate a regional lake health assessment protocol and process that is based on Indigenous Knowledges and Indigenous lake usages, with an end-goal of modernizing the \u2018Atlas of Alberta Lakes\u2019 in digital format so that it is braiding perspectives and knowledge systems, improve lake health and knowledge mobilization, and support management and decision-making processes. This work will begin with the Blackfoot Confederacy and then extend into other communities.<\/p><p>This work is important because it will prioritize and celebrate community knowledge and values while weaving Indigenous ways of knowing in practice with western science in a novel approach to ecological and environmental monitoring. The body of work will foster innovation in environmental monitoring while fostering the exchange of wise practices between Western knowledge and Indigenous Knowledge. In addition to providing scientific insight, this project will uplift and empower Indigenous and Metis communities for active involvement in decisions about lands and waters.<\/p><h3><strong>Project Co-Leads<br \/><\/strong><\/h3><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Dr. Myrle Ballard<\/strong><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Associate Professor, Department of Earth, Energy and Environment, University of <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Calgary<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tier II Canada Research Chair in Weaving Indigenous Science and Sustainability <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Science<\/span><\/p><p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Dr. Allyson Menzies<\/strong><br \/>Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary<br \/><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2bec872 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"2bec872\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Summary of Overall Project Objectives<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-62e0e5f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"62e0e5f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The primary objective of this project is to engage communities in the braiding of <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Indigenous Science and Western Science to enhance environmental monitoring <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">practices. This initiative seeks to:<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><ol><li><b>Advance Conservation, Restoration, Adaptation, and Well-Being <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 Co-develop <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">research that integrates Indigenous and Western scientific approaches to <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">monitor ecological changes and inform local, regional, provincial, and national <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">strategies for monitoring and evaluation, conservation, restoration, climate <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">adaptation, and the well-being of both communities and ecosystems.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li><li><b>Mobilize Knowledge for Indigenous Self-Determination <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 Facilitate knowledge <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">sharing that strengthens Indigenous leadership in environmental, economic, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and social decision-making, ensuring that research findings directly support <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">self-determined community priorities.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li><li><b>Support Community-Based Environmental Monitoring <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 Establish <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">collaborative research efforts with Indigenous communities to co-monitor <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ecological and environmental changes, with a focus on culturally significant <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">species, watershed health, and community-prioritized environmental concerns.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li><li><b>Enhance Place-Based Knowledge and Watershed Histories <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 Document and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">analyze Indigenous place names and their historical connections to water <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">systems while integrating Western scientific data on water quality, hydrology, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and climate-related changes.<\/span><\/li><li><b>Build Capacity Through Knowledge Braiding <\/b><span>\u2013 Support mentorship and <\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><span>training of students, emerging scholars, Indigenous guardians, and community <\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><span>members through collaboration with Knowledge Keepers, established leaders, <\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><span>and researchers to develop skills in braiding in environmental monitoring, and <\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><span>governance<\/span><\/li><li><b>Build Research Relationships with Communities <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 Strengthen relationships <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">within and across knowledge systems, communities, and generations to uplift <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Indigenous ways of knowing, foster reciprocity, and transform research <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">practices to adopt a braiding approach, and to be more inclusive, respectful, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and collaborative.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li><\/ol><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This project aims to celebrate and uplift Indigenous knowledge while fostering <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">reciprocal, equitable, and sustainable environmental monitoring partnerships between <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Indigenous communities and researchers.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2b76f33 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"2b76f33\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Summary of Overall Project Outcomes<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2031697 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2031697\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Immediate<\/strong><\/p><ul><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Connects place-based, Indigenous-led research to provincial and federal <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">science priorities (e.g., provincial environmental monitoring and evaluation <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">approaches, federal species at risk management).<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Facilitates knowledge actively and tangibly braiding by integrating <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Indigenous Science and Western Science into monitoring programs to <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">demonstrate their synergy and combined effects.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prioritizes Indigenous leadership and mentorship, advancing both the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">institution&#8217;s Indigenous engagement goals and the interests of Indigenous <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">communities, while also supporting equity, diversity, inclusion, and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">opportunities in research<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This project supports the spirit of the TRC Calls to Action (e.g., with some <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">interpretation and broadening into natural sciences which are not overtly <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">included); i) ending the back-log of Post-Secondary opportunities for <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Indigenous and Metis students (Education, 11); ii) establish [research <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">programs] with funding to advance \u2026 reconciliation (Education for <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reconciliation, 65); establish a strategy for \u2018Indigenous and non-Indigenous <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[scientists] to undertake collaborative projects\u2019 (Commemoration, 93) . <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although environmental health is not overtly listed, it is fundamental to <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">health. Finally, the TRC universally implies Canada should endorse and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">comply with the UNDRIP (see the next point).<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This project supports UNDRIP principles (e.g., Indigenous Peoples\u2019 rights to <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">i) participate in decision-making matters\u2026 in accordance with their own <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">procedures\u2019 (Article 18), ii) determine and develop priorities and strategies <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">for exercising their right to [land use] (Article 23), and iii) \u2018maintain, control <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and protect their \u2026. manifestations of their sciences, technologies, and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">cultures (Article 31). <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In particular, this project supports the \u2018Ten calls to action to natural <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">scientists working in Canada\u2019 towards reconciliation (Wong et al., 2020. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">FACETS 5: 769\u2013783), particularly including the following:<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/li><\/ul><ol><li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Understanding of socio-political landscape around research sites;<\/span><\/li><li><span>Seeking meaningful relationships to co-generate knowledge for <\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><span>better outcomes on multiple fronts;<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Enable knowledge co-production and sharing;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Seek Knowledge Keepers\u2019 and Elders\u2019 advice;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Provide meaningful opportunities for community members <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(particularly youth) to participate and experience braiding Science;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Decolonize the landscape by Indigenizing place names;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Working with the UCalgary to mainstream braiding knowledge in \u00a0institutionally in the natural sciences.\u00a0<\/span><\/li><\/ol><p><strong>Intermediate\u00a0<\/strong><\/p><ul><li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Builds capacity across diverse learning pathways by training Indigenous <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and Western Science emerging scholars<\/span><\/li><li>Enhances the influence of BKC research in Canadian science culture and \u00a0informs policy and decision-making.<\/li><\/ul><p><strong>Ultimate<\/strong><\/p><ul><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Strengthens Indigenous and local knowledge contributions to public policy <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and decision-making.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Promotes reciprocity between Indigenous knowledge and federal science <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">priorities.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Advances Canada\u2019s reconciliation commitments through Indigenous-led <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">research.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Expands Canada\u2019s knowledge economy by integrating diverse knowledge <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">systems.<\/span><\/p><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Contributes to the long-term sustainability of BKC by fostering collaborative <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">research partnerships.<\/span><\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-380be28 elementor-widget 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