Looking for an outreach, research, or community-based monitoring resource? Check out the ‘toolkits’ the WISE Lab students, staff, and partners have created!
Toolkits:
Honourable Harvest of Knowledge: A resource for researchers (from any/all backgrounds) to help navigate what it means to conduct research in a good way, using the principles of the Honourable Harvest as a metaphor for research and data collection. Developed in partnership with Magnetawan First Nation.
Research & Data Sharing Agreements: A resource for researchers, Indigenous Nations, and anyone participating in cross-cultural collaborative research processes. This document is meant to help folks understand research and data sharing agreements, how to navigate them, and provide a template for collaboratively developing your own agreements with respective partners. Developed in partnership with Magnetawan First Nation.
Bioblitz Pamphlet: PhD candidate Alice Dabrowski put together a pamphlet that outlines the process of putting on and facilitating a bioblitz event, as well as why they might be helpful.
Participatory Research Methods: PhD candidate Amish Dua put together a document outlining, explaining, and providing examples of several participatory research methods that can be helpful for community-based wildlife research and Indigenous Knowledge gathering/applications.
Wildlife Cameras for Community-Based Monitoring: An in-depth guide to using cameras to monitor wildlife created by Claire Kemp and Kate Yarchuk.
Insect Monitoring: MSc student Natasha Hirt developed a guide for monitoring insects, specifically within a community-based lens. This includes a review of what insects are, benefits of monitoring insects, various methods (and when they might be the best fit), and community considerations for conducting this type of work.
Youth Guardian Programs: MES student Zachary Carmona developed an overview of Indigenous Youth Guardian programs, based on the journey of Miawpukek First Nation and their work to add a Youth Guardian program to their existing Guardians program.
Community Outputs:
'Research in a backpack' program: We put together backpack 'kits' for our community partners in Magnetawan First Nation and Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory to encourage youth and families to get out on the Land to learn and engage with Shkakamik Kwe (Mother Earth). The idea was to put together physical kits that could be distributed to the Lands and other community departments to encourage community wide Land-based learning. A general resource was also put together about what was in the backpacks, which can be shared with others looking to do a similar program.
Language memory game resource: MSc student Christopher Lim created a memory game for several of the WISE Lab community partners, featuring local wildlife and their respective names in Anishinaabemowin.
Bat info pamphlet: MSc student Michelle Beltran developed an info brochure to share with community partners about the value of bats and what we can do to help them.