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Becoming Water. Photo by Shella Pree Bright.

The PulseFebruary 28, 2022

Becoming Water: Black Memory in Slavery’s Afterlives

By Makshya Tolbert

Tolbert wades into the liminal, haunted space that exists between water and Black memory, navigating Black lineages of thinking and practice to embark on her own return to water.

Emergence Magazine

Star knowledge augmented reality. Image courtesy of Marlena Myles.

The PulseFebruary 28, 2022

Honoring History with Marlena Myles’ New Augmented Reality Installation, ‘Dakota Spirit Walk’

By Jim Walsh

This public art installation uses augmented reality to guides users through the historic village of Kaposia.

MinnPost

Education Engagement Indigenous Perspectives Minnesota

Rio Gallina, in New Mexico. PHOTO BY CHRISTINA SELBY

The PulseDecember 15, 2021

The Rights of Rivers

In New Mexico, water managers, Indigenous communities, and environmental groups pioneer laws and policies that keep water in rivers for the rivers’ sake.

Biological Sciences Planning / Policy Policy United States

The PulseNovember 16, 2021

Water Is Wealth

By Sara Jensen Carr

The future of Oʻahu could exemplify a watershed urbanism that re-roots design and planning in Indigenous knowledge, and de-engineers more than a century of settler colonialism.

Places Journal

Environmental History Planning / Policy Policy United States

The PulseJune 1, 2021

Just Sustainability: Fayola Jacobs—Challenging Institutional Conventions

By Clement Loo

Podcast creator Clement Loo speaks with Dr. Fayola Jacobs about growing the content and format of academic discourse in the hopes of making it more inclusive of a broader range of people and perspectives.

Just Sustainability Podcast

Education Environmental Justice Minnesota Planning / Policy

Workers assess damage following the collapse of a spillway at the 50-year-old Oroville Dam in California in 2017. FLORENCE LOW / CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF WATER RESOURCES

The PulseJune 1, 2021

Water Warning: The Looming Thread of the World’s Aging Dams

By Fred Pearce

Tens of thousands of large dams across the globe are reaching the end of their expected lifespans. These deteriorating structures pose a serious threat to hundreds of millions of people living downstream.

Yale Environment 360

Civil Engineering History International Research

Map of the future of water showing that wetter areas are getting wetter and drier areas are getting drier.

The PulseJune 1, 2021

A Map of the Future of Water

By Jay Famiglietti

The availability of fresh water is rapidly changing all over the world, creating a tenuous future that requires attention from policymakers and the public. These global changes are altering where and how we get fresh water, sparking the need for worldwide cooperation.

The Pew Charitable Trusts

Geography International Planning / Policy Policy

Painted image of Abigail Echo-Hawk, a citizen of the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma and director of the Urban Indian Health Institute

The PulseDecember 9, 2020

COVID-19 data on Native Americans is ‘a national disgrace.’ This scientist is fighting to be counted

By Lizzie Wade

The full impact of Covid-19 on Indigenous communities in the U.S. is unclear because of racial misclassification and the exclusion of Indigenous communities from data sets and analyses used to make health policy decisions.

Science

Indigenous Perspectives Research United States

Map of Indigenous peoples' lands of western hemisphere

The PulseDecember 9, 2020

Native Land

By Victor Temprano

Mapping Indigenous lands in a way that changes, challenges, and improves the way people see history and contemporary conditions. It creates spaces where non-Indigenous people can learn more about the lands they inhabit, the history of those lands, and how to actively be part of a better future going forward together.

Native Land Digital

Education Indigenous Studies International

Hand-drawn map with Duluth and Lake Superior at the center

The PulseDecember 9, 2020

Exploring the Map: The Mississippi River (from North America: Portrait of a Continent)

By Anton Thomas

Explore North America through this contemporary hand-drawn map and this video, that follows the Mississippi River and explores more than just the banks of the river, including Chicago, the Ozarks, and Acadiana.

YouTube

Artistic Expression Engagement Geography North America

Issue Contents

Introduction

Introduction to Issue 21

We refer to the issue as “Women & Water: Calling” because collectively these articles demonstrate the ways that water calls to people, drawing women...

By Laurie Moberg

Feature

Mariners, Makers, Matriarchs: Changing Relationships Between Coast Salish Women & Water

Historically, Coast Salish female identity depended upon water. Waterways provided women with countless economic opportunities, fostered family ties, created plentiful food sources, and encouraged...

By Alexandra M. Peck

Feature

Collaboration for a Common Goal

We seek to tell a story that demonstrates how combining a common goal with compromise and deliberate action leads to creative solutions and meaningful...

By Mollie Aronowitz, Jennifer Terry, Ruth McCabe, and Mary Beth Stevenson

Feature

How the River Moves Us: Women Speak Their Story

As a work of social choreography, Niimikaage is meant to listen to the movement of the Mississippi River through the lives of people connected...

By Victoria Bradford Styrbicki

Geographies

Floodplains and Hurricanes: Mapping Natural Disasters to Uncover Vulnerable Communities

Using GIS mapping, I can identify at-risk communities most impacted by water-related natural disasters in the Houston Metropolitan Area (HMA), which is highly susceptible...

By Kristin Osiecki

In Review

On Rivers, Women, and Canoes

Open Rivers contacted Natalie Warren, author of Hudson Bay Bound: Two Women, One Dog, Two Thousand Miles to the Arctic, to talk about her...

By Natalie Warren and Phyllis Mauch Messenger

Perspectives (Peer Review)

The Summit of STEM: Navigating the Uneven Terrain

Endless hours writing and analyzing samples in the lab was not the most difficult part of graduate school, however. It was walking into a...

By Ayooluwateso Coker

Perspectives

Water as Weapon: Gender and WASH

The association between WASH services and gendered vulnerability to violence in rural locales and urban slums in developing countries has received the most study,...

By Becky L. Jacobs

Perspectives

Women Landowners and the Language of Partnership Needed for Water Quality Change

In the Midwest, women landowners are one of the most powerful populations who can effect real change in water quality. Their potential, however, has...

By Linda Shenk, Jean Eells, and Wren Almitra

Primary Sources

Time and Trauma

Through interviews, surveys and focus group discussions with 258 households in Mathare during 2016 and 2017, I found that women faced huge challenges and...

By Anindita Sarkar

Teaching and Practice (Peer Review)

Co-creating a Learning Refugia by Walking Alone and Together

With more-than-human mentors as teachers and guides, we ask of ourselves, and each of you readers: What does it mean to know a place...

By Marijke Hecht, Michelle King, and Shimira Williams

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