Using Data to Protect Traditional Lifeways
summary
A tribal water program digitizes 15 years of field work: printing and scanning QR-coded bottle labels at ~134 sites May–Oct, logging chain-of-custody and processing in the lab with reproducible workflows. All statistical work runs in R analyses, including models to predict mercury in fish from watershed traits. Dam removals restore runs—annual river herring rise from virtually zero to an average of 2.5 million (over 5 million this year)—and data helped upgrade a reach from Class C to Class B and pass related legislation.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Protecting traditional waterways
- 3:20Paperless data collection
- 8:19Indigenous knowledge vs Western science
- 10:04Dam removal and ecological recovery
- 13:14Mercury levels in fish tissue
- 14:38River classification upgrades
- 15:42Student outreach and education
- 17:11Braiding stories for healing
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