About

Dr. Myrle Ballard is a Canada Research Chair Tier II in Weaving Indigenous Science and Sustainability Science and Associate Professor in the Department of Earth, Energy, and Environment at the University of Calgary.

She serves on numerous committees and working groups and was recently selected as one of the Lead Authors in the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) AR7 WGIII, Chapter 4, Sustainable Development and Mitigation. 

Dr. Ballard was an Invited Expert with the United Nation’s (UN) Global Environmental Outlook, as well as the IPBES Expert Scoping Meeting and the IPBES ILK Working Group. She also stood-up the new Indigenous Science Division at Environment and Climate Change Canada and was its first Director.  She is currently working on setting up the new Master of Indigenous Science program at the University of Calgary. 

She was inducted to the Royal Society of Canada in November 2025. 

Dr. Ballard is Anishinaabe from Lake St. Martin First Nation. Her research explores Three-Eyed Seeing and how her fluency in Anishinaabe mowin can transform approaches to land and water resource management using Anishinaabe mowin baseline indicators. She has researched and documented the forced displacement and relocation of communities from flooding, as well as research on climate change and weather.