Accelerating freshwater restoration science & practice through community-engaged research The UN Decade of Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030) calls for an accelerated need to cooperate at local and global scales to heal our degraded planet, and that the best examples of restoration success have been community-led. Through research situated in watersheds impacted by settler-dominated agricultural intensification and urbanization, Dr. Febria will describe how farm-focused and Indigenous-led partnerships have led to richer outcomes in addition to Western-science outcomes, all of which are crucial for freshwater restoration science and its’ translation into practice and decision-making. Research on molecular and microbial properties of headwater stream ecology and community ecology of Unionid species-at-risk will be discussed as examples of how projects in the Healthy Headwatesrs lab centre human dimensions to inform the science pursued across watersheds in the Laurentian Great Lakes and our shared home known as Turtle Island/North America. Drawing on additional examples globally, this talk will demonstrate how ethical and equitable research partnerships can support a more effective and actionable science, in support of a just and sustainable freshwater future.
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