Virtual Seminars/Talks/Interviews
Webinar with Beaver Speaker Science Series
Falmouth Reads - Public Library talk
An Ecosystem Approach to Restoration: Embracing Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Revitalizing Riverscapes with Beavers: Partnership, Compromise or Power Struggle? - Panelist
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Interview with Our Living Lands
Listen and/or watchVirtual speaking engagements
GSD short on landscape design
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Long form podcast with SciAnts!!
Embracing Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Beavers to Bison - Pollinator Friendly Alliance
BeaverCon 2024 - Building like a beaver
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Featured media
Learn more about Kitaiksisskstaki and my work in Chapter 8
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Alumni Profile!
Who's Dam Busy?: Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology
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How One Blackfeet Nation Scientist Is Using Robot Beavers To Help The Environment
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Previous speaking engagements
- Invited talk: "Communicating with beavers." International Veterinary Students' Association (IVSA), Beaver Welfare - April 2nd, 2026
- Public Lecture: "Nature's Engineers: Partnering with Beavers to Restore Landscapes" - Woods Hole Public Library (A 2026 Falmouth Reads Together event) - March 23rd, 2026
- Invited Lecture: "Designing landscapes with animal kin." Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA - Ecological Research Seminar. Prof. Max Robert Piana
Keynote: ``Beaver Futurism." State of the Beaver, Canyonville, OR – November 17th–19th, 2025 - Invited Lecture: "Collaborating with tribal nations - placed based informed science." Massachussetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA - Design and Digital Fabrication
- "From Rivers to Oceans, protecting aquatic species and their habitats ", Harvard Alumni Animal Health Interest Group, Harvard Alumni Day, Harvard University - June 6th, 2025
- "Beaver-inspired landscape design - Multi-agent robotic systems for landscape interventions", Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Robotics, Utah Unây High School Program, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Quissett Campus- Invited speaker -Falmouth, MA - July 19th - 20th, 2025
- "Great Molasses Flood in Boston", THE BLOB / Coolidge Corner Theatre, Science on Screen movie series, Rose Kennedy Greenway (Whart District Park), Brookline, MA - August 13th, 2025. Co-presenting with Nicole Sharp.
- "Building like Beavers: Stigmergic Robotics for Landscape Design", 10th International Beaver Symposium, Inverness, Scotland - Oral presentation - Sept. 17th - 19th, 2025
- "How and Why Beavers are Driven to Build", New Hampshire Conservation Commissions Workshop, Pembroke, NH - November 1st, 2025
- "Beaver: A Medicine of Possibility", Vermont Film Premiere Expert Panelist, Montpelier, VT
- "Connected, Disconnected, Reconnected: Applied Traditional Ecological Knowledge in a Colonized World." Society of Rangeland Management Annual Meeting - Plenary Speaker - Spokane, WA - Feb 9th - 13th, 2025
- "Beaver, bison, bees, and burning: High plains ecosystem dynamics" - 10th Annual BEST PRACTICES FOR POLLINATORS Summit - March 4th, 2025
- "Engineering like a beaver." BeaverCon 2024, Boulder, Colorado
- "Revitalizing riverscapes with beavers: partnership, compromise, or power struggle?" Panelist - BeaverCon 2024, Boulder Colorado
- `Moving like a bison, building like a beaver: Partnering with ecosystem engineers to reclaim habitats." Society for Ecological Restoration Webinar - An ecosystem approach to restoration: examples of embracing Traditional Ecological Knowledge in ecosystem restoration from across the Americas
- ``"Conducting research on tribal lands." USDA - Reno, Nevada, January 2024
- ``Building like a beaver, moving like a buffalo, singing like a bird." University of Calgary - Calgary, AB, October 2023
- ``Building like a beaver." Outer Coast College - Sitka, AK, September 2023