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Besties in Science: Graduate Students Study Swinomish Clam Garden | |||
Western Washington University to partner in $30M NSF Center for Braiding Indigenous Knowledges and Science聽聽 | |||
Meet Mitchell Gibbs, 草榴社区's visiting Fulbright scholar from Australia | |||
A new approach to science rooted in Indigenous tradition | MEGHNA CHAKRABARTI: If you walk along the beach on the Pacific Northwest coast, you might not notice some very special things. They're called clam gardens, and they've been sitting along the shore for thousands of years. MARCO HATCH: Clam gardens are these really special intertidal鈥 |
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Tribe reviving traditional shellfish resources, management practices | 鈥淭here are places that once held millions and millions of oysters and now they are completely gone,鈥 said Marco Hatch, an environmental sciences professor at Western Washington University and a partner in the Indigenous Aquaculture Collaborative Network that helped organize the鈥 |
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Solutions: A professor digs for clams to boost sustainability and the environment | For the better part of the last 20 years, Western Washington University environmental science professor Marco Hatch has had his hands in the muddy shores of the Pacific Northwest and Canada, digging for clams. Specifically, Hatch has dedicated his life's work to clam gardens and鈥 |
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草榴社区鈥檚 Marco Hatch Awarded a Coveted 2023 Pew Fellowship in Marine Conservation | |||
Farming our way to starvation: Unsustainable food systems | Marco Hatch, an associate professor of Environmental Science at Western Washington University and a member of the Samish Indian Nation, works in the Pacific Northwest with 鈥 |
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Swinomish Tribe builds U.S.鈥檚 first modern 鈥榗lam garden,' reviving ancient practice | It takes a butter clam about three years to grow to harvestable size, according to Western Washington University marine ecologist and Samish Nation member Marco Hatch. 鈥淲hat we're doing here is something that hasn't been done in living memory, which is build a clam鈥 |
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How Indigenous Sea Gardens Produced Massive Amounts of Food for Millennia | For those who know how to read them, the signs have long been there. Like the towering mound of 20 million oyster shells all but obscured by the lush greenery of central Florida鈥檚 Gulf Coast. Or the arcing lines of wave-weathered stone walls strung along British Columbia鈥檚 shores like a necklace鈥 |