Ask Alumni | Klatowa Ina Alumni Network
Navigating your way toward and through an environmental science career
Navigating your way toward and through an environmental science career
Hosted by OSU Klatowa Ina Alumni Network
Panelists:
Samantha Chisholm Hatfield, ’02, PhD ’09, is an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians, from the Tututni and Chinook Bands, and is also Cherokee. Hatfield is currently an assistant professor senior research at Oregon State University in the Fisheries Wildlife and Conservations Sciences Department. Hatfield has earned an American Sign Language Interpretation certification, a Bachelor of Science in Ethnic Studies with a concentration in Native American studies and a minor in Cultural Anthropology from Oregon State University. She holds her Doctorate in Environmental Sciences from Oregon State University. Her revolutionary dissertation work has been considered groundbreaking research and heralded for the way she has melded physical and social science, combining empirical research with social science methodology. She was the lead author for the Tribal Cultural Resources chapter for the state’s fifth Oregon Climate Assessment Report, and is a current author on three chapters for the forthcoming Fifth National Climate Assessment report. Some of Dr. Chisholm Hatfield's specializations include: Indigenous TEK, TEK and climate change, and Native culture issues, and South Korean Haenyeo.
Kristen Lycett, ’09, earned a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Sciences at OSU with a specialization in aquatic biology and a Bachelor of Fine Art in Applied Visual Arts. After graduation, she relocated to Maryland where she took a job in outdoor education before pursuing her graduate studies. She received her doctorate in Marine Estuarine Environmental Science from the University of Maryland Eastern Shore in 2017 and began teaching at Salisbury University as a postdoctoral teaching fellow. In 2020, she moved into the nonprofit sector and began working for the Phillips Wharf Environmental Center. In 2022, she became the executive director and was charged with rebuilding the nonprofit in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. In her role, she runs an environmental education program, a citizen science oyster restoration program, and manages the nonprofit.
Gail Woodside, HBS '08, MS '10, PHD '22, graduated with an A.S. and an HBS in Natural Resources in 2008, M.S. in Range Ecology in 2010, and a Ph.D. in Fisheries and Wildlife in 2022. She is the Tribal liaison for the Indigenous Natural Resource Office and TEK Lab, College of Forestry.

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