Plants Can Change The World Plants are extraordinary superheroes: they provide a multitude of tremendous services without asking for much in return. For starters, plants supply us with the basic requirements of life (food, oxygen, and shelter), but they also enrich our lives in unnoticed ways. The daily tasks that plants perform are called ecosystem services, […]
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Yesterday I participated in a celebration held on election day in Germany. The sentiment that motivated this event is “No matter the election results, they can’t take away our joy.” I was very happy to be among friends as I drew connections and saw the obvious parallels between recent elections in the States and Germany.
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The Music and Mission Road Trip is a project that invites high school and college students to lead with intention through their musical, personal, and budding professional lives. Music is the vessel in which the mission of leading action is achieved. A group of seven students, ranging from ages 16 to 21, collated themselves into
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What is YEER? The Youth Ecology Education through Restoration (YEER) program engages middle school science students as restoration ecologists to restore land in their own schoolyard or community, with the expert guidance of Washington Native Plant Society (WNPS) chapter members and supported by a high-quality classroom science curriculum taught by their classroom teacher. Class time
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An Ecosystem of Support The resource dedication it takes to get to Antarctica is immense. It is too enormous for one badass botanist to handle alone, but with my whole ecosystem in support, I can achieve this goal and research, learn, and collaborate for global good in the Antarctic. If you want to take action
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What Does A Botanist Have To Do In Antarctica? Equitable Leadership and Critical Botany I believe that plants can change the world. While in Antarctica I will study two native vascular plant species — Colobanthus quitensis and Deschampsia antarctica, pictured below — in addition to hundreds of mosses and lichen. To harness their power for global betterment,
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Help Samantha Elie Botanist get to the Antarctic Contribute now! The Invitation I have been selected for the ice-breaking opportunity to voyage on an Antarctic expedition with high-ranking women in STEMM* leadership. This mission is greater than myself. As an early-career botanist, I cannot simply reach into investments, large savings, or wealthy inner network
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The Homeward Bound Project (HB) is a leadership initiative that aims to increase the influence and impact of women and non-binary people in decision-making to shape our planet. Each year HB selects 100 remarkable women and non-binary people from STEMM* fields around the world to join this program that improves and draws attention to the
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Support Samantha Elie on Patreon or Venmo @SamanthaElieBotanist My Big Hairy Audacious Goal is to be an independent researcher. This will allow me to do the research that matters, not be restricted to the red tape of government or academic institutions, or starving the small budgets of grassroots initiatives. As an independent researcher I will be
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I believe that plants can change the world. I research the illuminating relationships that native plants maintain between their ecosystem, climate, and people. The ecosystem services that plants provide can be strategically implemented to alleviate the effects of climate change and solve other wicked problems. We can filter air and water, stabilize coastlines, regrow with
Be Kind To Humankind 2021 Highlight Be Kind To Humankind (BK2HK) week is an annual invitation to strengthen your community by sharing joy and caring for the collective. To celebrate, I am highlighting a small business in Olympia, WA that is spreading kindness beyond their walls and into the world. I had many to choose
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