

She does community-engaged research on Indigenous water governance, focusing on Pacific Northwest salmon watersheds. Sibyl Diver is a researcher at Stanford University in the Department of Earth System Science. His research group and collaborators are developing geomorphic transport laws for soil production, weathering and transport, and river and debris flow incision into geography, earth sciences, ecosystems, geomorphic transport, landscapes and rivers, bedrock and debris flow Sibyl Diver He is also appointed in the Department of Geography and the Earth Sciences Division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.His research focuses on the processes that underlie the evolution of landscapes. Dietrich is a professor in UC Berkeley’s Department of Earth and Planetary Science. She has extensive experience in collaborative design, implementation and management of multi-disciplinary projects with diverse stakeholders in cross-cultural diversity, food, tribal health, food security, urban and peri-urban agriculture, sustainable food systems, food safety Members of the Collaborative William E. Her research examines the cultural politics of resource access and the relationship between bio-cultural diversity, food security, food sovereignty and human health. Her work aims to engage diverse stakeholders across the spectrum of the food system through participatory and collaborative research methodologies to examine and co-create solutions to achieve equitable and sustainable food systems. She was Principal Investigator on the 5-year USDA-NIFA-AFRI grant titled, “Enhancing Tribal Health and Food Security in the Klamath Basin of Oregon and California by Building a Sustainable Regional Food System” (2012-2017). She is a founding member of the Karuk-UCB Collaborative and Principal Investigator on the 3-year USDA-NIFA-AFRI grant titled “Karuk Agroecosystem Resilience and Cultural Foods and Fibers Revitalization Initiative: xúus nu’éethti – we are caring for it” (2018-2020). Jennifer Sowerwine is a cooperative extension specialist in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at UC Berkeley. Ron plays a critical role in increasing public awareness about the impacts of colonization on the spiritual and physical health of his people and on the ecological integrity of the Karuk ancestral Karuk Tribe, Department of Natural Resources, youth, dipnet fishing, eco-cultural restoration Jennifer Sowerwine In his role, Ron develops plans for eco-cultural revitalization, leads youth cultural education camps, and fosters collaborative research at the nexus of traditional ecological knowledge and western science. He works for the Karuk Tribe of California’s Department of Natural Resources as their Cultural Biologist.

Building on these collaborations, he works to develop systems through which the local/indigenous rural communities can be integrated into research projects and programs of ecosystem management, biodiversity monitoring and human disease Integrative biology, ethnobotany, ethnoecology, ethnoepidemiology, medicine Ron ReedĪ co-founder of the Karuk-UC Berkeley Collaborative, tribal member Ron Reed is a traditional Karuk dipnet fisherman and a cultural biologist for the Karuk Tribe of California.

Carlson’s primary research interests include medical/nutritional ethnobotany, ethnoecology, ethnoepidemiology and the ecology and evolution of human disease.Ĭarlson collaborates with indigenous communities to learn about their ethnoempirical and ethnotheoretical perspectives on medical and nutritional ethnobotany, ethnotaxonomy, ethnoecology, and ethnoepidemiology. He is a founding member of the Karuk-UCB Collaborative. Thomas Carlson is a senior SOE lecturer in the Department of Integrative Biology in the UC Berkeley College of Letters and Science and a medical physician. Karuk-UC Berkeley Collaborative Co-founders Thomas Carlson
