By Risa Stiegler. This spring, we received a few new gorgeous picture books for the library that feature two women trailblazers in the science of water pollution. The Girl who Tested the Waters: Ellen Swallow, Environmental Scientist features Ellen Swallow (Richards), the first woman admitted to MIT, who coined the term ecology to describe the …
Libraries, Artists and Scientists Embrace the Interdisciplinary Studies of Water by Sigrid Peterson, Water Library Assistant. This is a archive blog post from 2016. Collaborations between artists and scientists continue to proliferate in research and educational institutions. Scientists and humanists increasingly find meaningful value in combined approaches to investigating the legacies and futures of environmental …
By: India-Bleu Niehoff, Water Library Student Assistant Introduction There has been a long history of Indigenous knowledge being ignored, denied and outright lambasted. It has been posited as being diametrically opposed to Western science, and those with Indigenous backgrounds wanting to work in the field of Western science have been told to forsake their traditional …