Brown Bag Session: Collaborative co-creation of knowledge with Solutions Scholar Miah Godek and Dr. Danielle Ignace

Join us to hear from Solutions Scholar Miah Godek where she will share her research project “Collaborative co-creation of knowledge to support Indigenous cultural burning for climate resilience in the Okanagan Valley, British Columbia”.  Following Miah’s presentation, she and her supervisor Dr. Danielle Ignace will lead a discussion around the topics that emerge within the question and answer period.

Registration not required to join us in-person at AERL 107 (Vancouver).  Register below for the Zoom link. 

Miah Godek is a second-year PhD student working with Dr. Danielle Ignace in Forest and Conservation Sciences. Originally from the Seattle area, she completed her undergraduate degree in Environmental Science, with a minor in Philosophy, at Mount Royal University in Calgary, and her Master of International Forestry with a focus on community and Indigenous-led forestry and conservation at UBC.  Miah has experience working in the forestry sector and in environmental consulting. Her research interests include studying the impacts of wildfire and prescribed fire on soil carbon, microbial and fungal communities, and overall ecosystem health. She also studies the use of controlled low-intensity fires as a forest management tool to promote wildfire resilience in the context of a changing climate and increasing recognition of the importance of Indigenous fire stewardship.

Dr. Danielle Ignace is an enrolled member of the Coeur d’Alene tribe and a broadly trained ecophysiologist with a passion for science communication. From desert systems to temperate forests, she studies how global change (climate change, landscape disturbance, and non-native species invasions) impacts ecosystem function and Indigenous communities.  She is an Assistant Professor of Indigenous Natural Sciences in the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, UBC Forestry and the primary investigator of the Ecophysiology Lab at UBC. She is also a Research Associate at the Harvard Forest.

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