Three-Eyed Seeing
Indigenous Science
Research Group
Myrle Ballard PhD., MSc.
TESIS
Myrle Ballard is an Associate Professor in the Department of Earth, Energy and Environments at the University of Calgary, and a Canadian Research Chair Tier II in Weaving Indigenous Science and Sustainability Science.
She is an Anishinaabe scientist, born and raised in Lake St. Martin First Nation, with a Ph.D. in Natural Resources & Environmental Management from the University of Manitoba.
Dr. Ballard’s work focuses on Indigenous Science and the environmental and ecosystem knowledge held by many Indigenous Peoples. She developed and is applying a Three-Eyed Seeing framework—an approach that braids together Indigenous Science, Western Science, and Our Relations—to the study and stewardship of aquatic ecosystems.
She serves on numerous committees and working groups and was recently an Invited Expert with the United Nation’s (UN) Global Environmental Outlook. She was a Lead Author on the UN’s Working Group III contribution to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Seventh Assessment Report, Chapter 4, Sustainable Development and Mitigation. She was also the first Director of the Indigenous Science Division at Environment and Climate Change Canada.
