[Ccb_gsr_listserv] Fwd: FEB2021 Field Safety Update: Safer Science

[Lynn Sweet]

Forwarded message:

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Sara Souza <sarasouza at berkeley.edu>
Date: Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 9:26 AM
Subject: FEB2021 Field Safety Update: Safer Science



View this email in your browser
<https://mailchi.mp/6ba08fc2a9ae/feb2021?e=6cd443c932>
<https://ucop.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=435d242eb85b68919be297700&id=a6abfdf41c&e=6cd443c932>

*UC Field Research Safety*
Greetings, I hope you are all well. I was honored to participate in *Cornell
University's Safer Science* panel discussion last week regarding identity
prejudice in the field. If you weren't able to listen directly, I've shared
some related publications and links below. Our *UC Fieldwork Toolkit
Leadership Training Series* is starting next week on March 3; registration
is full, but materials and recordings will be posted for all here
<https://ucop.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=435d242eb85b68919be297700&id=52f673c56d&e=6cd443c932>.
Also, I'm sharing below a few* project* and *weather-related news stories*
from around the state...but a shorter month, means a shorter newsletter! As
always, feel free to contact me directly at sarasouza at berkeley.edu with any
questions or suggestions. Thanks, Sara

*Safer Science: Strategies to protect at-risk researchers when conducting
fieldwork*

As a result of identity prejudice, certain individuals are more vulnerable
to conflict and violence when they are performing scientific work in the
field.

A huge thank you to Amelia-Juliette Demery and Monique Pipkin of Cornell
University for presenting their *Nature Ecology and Evolution* paper
titled, “Safe fieldwork strategies for at-risk individuals, their
supervisors and their institutions
<https://ucop.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=435d242eb85b68919be297700&id=2ed13baba9&e=6cd443c932>”
and coordinating the Safer Science
<https://ucop.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=435d242eb85b68919be297700&id=2fbb66fe66&e=6cd443c932>
webinar and panel discussion on February 17. A recording of the 90-minute
webinar is available here
<https://ucop.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=435d242eb85b68919be297700&id=4437c0a40f&e=6cd443c932>
.

*Related publications and efforts from the panelists:*

*Dr. Hendratta Ali*, Associate Professor of Geosciences, Fort Hays State
University, Author of *Ten steps to protect BIPOC scholars in the field*
<https://ucop.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=435d242eb85b68919be297700&id=b5cd121e84&e=6cd443c932>

*Dr. Meredith Hastings*, Associate Professor of Environment & Society,
Brown University, Earth Science Women’s Network
<https://ucop.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=435d242eb85b68919be297700&id=489aa88f9a&e=6cd443c932>
President, PI for AdvanceGeo
<https://ucop.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=435d242eb85b68919be297700&id=0554f00713&e=6cd443c932>

*Dr. Christopher J Schell*, Assistant Professor of Urban Ecology,
University of Washington Tacoma, Author of *Recreating Wakanda by promoting
Black excellence in ecology and evolution
<https://ucop.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=435d242eb85b68919be297700&id=02969c9e1c&e=6cd443c932>*


*News *
<https://ucop.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=435d242eb85b68919be297700&id=229512eb10&e=6cd443c932>

*Indigenous archaeology plows forward, despite anthropology’s checkered
past,* Berkeley News
<https://ucop.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=435d242eb85b68919be297700&id=b8296aa737&e=6cd443c932>,
February 4, 2021 (with 4 min video feature)
<https://ucop.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=435d242eb85b68919be297700&id=13943cdad0&e=6cd443c932>

*15 giant sequoia trees topple in Yosemite's Mariposa Grove*,
Visalia Times-Delta
<https://ucop.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=435d242eb85b68919be297700&id=fb04afcc3c&e=6cd443c932>,
February 1, 2021
<https://ucop.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=435d242eb85b68919be297700&id=81fbe594f5&e=6cd443c932>

*Winter rains take toll on wildfire-burned Big Creek, *February 8,
2021 By Kathleen Wong, UCNRS Newsletter
<https://ucop.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=435d242eb85b68919be297700&id=f6a1e06ded&e=6cd443c932>
<https://ucop.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=435d242eb85b68919be297700&id=58c6731c7e&e=6cd443c932>

*Stebbins Cold Canyon Reserve partially reopens, *February 10,
2021 By Kathleen Wong, UCNRS Newsletter
<https://ucop.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=435d242eb85b68919be297700&id=f0261e010e&e=6cd443c932>
<https://ucop.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=435d242eb85b68919be297700&id=710ca2a009&e=6cd443c932>

*Other Resources*
<https://ucop.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=435d242eb85b68919be297700&id=81d2a207a1&e=6cd443c932>

Hopefully more in-person first aid training can resume soon; in the
meantime, NOLS has made their Wilderness Medicine Continued Learning Online
Platform
<https://ucop.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=435d242eb85b68919be297700&id=cae71b2527&e=6cd443c932>
easily
accessible and free.

<https://ucop.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=435d242eb85b68919be297700&id=8f857e59ef&e=6cd443c932>

This new prevention guide, created by the PATH to Care Center
<https://ucop.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=435d242eb85b68919be297700&id=94a761210b&e=6cd443c932>
after
two years of consultation with campus academic partners, offers guidance
for faculty, field site coordinators, and graduate students who are doing
or overseeing research or internships in off-campus locations. The guide
provides practical strategies to improve safety and reduce the likelihood
of harassment or violence.
<https://ucop.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=435d242eb85b68919be297700&id=2fd4766215&e=6cd443c932>

*UC Sustainability Annual Report 2020*

Resilience: From Coronavirus to Climate Change
<https://ucop.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=435d242eb85b68919be297700&id=a0d20eb280&e=6cd443c932>



<https://ucop.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=435d242eb85b68919be297700&id=27f069c080&e=6cd443c932>


Last, for those of you that venture off groomed trails, this podcast
episode explores our relationship to the hazards of avalanches, and
chronicles a miraculous survival story and asks what we ultimately learn
when we make it through worst-case scenarios (Outside
<https://ucop.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=435d242eb85b68919be297700&id=37a34178db&e=6cd443c932>,
33 minutes).
That's all for this month. But borrowing a term from NASA, keep your
"hazcams" on and take care out there. Best, Sara
<https://ucop.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=435d242eb85b68919be297700&id=ab0ad76563&e=6cd443c932>

Photo: This is the first high-resolution, color image to be sent back by
the Hazard Cameras (Hazcams) on the underside of NASA’s Perseverance Mars
rover after its landing on Feb. 18, 2021. [This imagery safeguards against
the rover getting lost or inadvertently crashing into unexpected obstacles,
and works in tandem with software that allows the rover to make its own
safety choices and to "think on its own." NASA
<https://ucop.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=435d242eb85b68919be297700&id=a16c82209c&e=6cd443c932>
]






This email was sent to lynn.sweet at ucr.edu
*why did I get this?*
<https://ucop.us16.list-manage.com/about?u=435d242eb85b68919be297700&id=91fdbb09ca&e=6cd443c932&c=05a86d49e3>
    unsubscribe from this list
<https://ucop.us16.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=435d242eb85b68919be297700&id=91fdbb09ca&e=6cd443c932&c=05a86d49e3>
    update subscription preferences
<https://ucop.us16.list-manage.com/profile?u=435d242eb85b68919be297700&id=91fdbb09ca&e=6cd443c932&c=05a86d49e3>
UC Field Research Safety · 317 University Hall · Berkeley, Ca 94720 · USA

[image: Email Marketing Powered by Mailchimp]
<http://www.mailchimp.com/email-referral/?utm_source=freemium_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=referral_marketing&aid=435d242eb85b68919be297700&afl=1>


-- 
--
Lynn C. Sweet, PhD
Associate Specialist, Research
Center for Conservation Biology
University of California, Riverside
Palm Desert Campus
75-080 Frank Sinatra Dr.
Palm Desert, CA 92211
lynn.sweet at ucr.edu

*News and resources about UC Riverside's response to COVID-19.
<https://ehs.ucr.edu/coronavirus?_ga=2.187934568.1185824228.1583769193-1288698880.1583442295>*
Tel. (not answered during UC COVID-related closure) (760) 834-0594
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.ucr.edu/pipermail/ccb_gsr_listserv/attachments/20210225/f8cf5103/attachment.html>