Professor Ryan Emanuel, a hydrologist from Duke’s Nicholas School of the Environment and member of North Carolina’s Lumbee tribe, visited campus for a presentation in the Ecoinformatics Seminar. Ryan’s seminar focused on the idea that scientific research can be informed, strengthened, and even transformed through deep integration of environmental justice thought and practice. He used examples from long-term partnerships with Indigenous communities in North Carolina aimed at understanding the impacts of industrial livestock production, fossil fuel infrastructure, and climate change to wetlands and other culturally significant environments.
