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| Braiding knowledge: how Indigenous expertise and western science are converging | “I’m a glorified clam counter.” So said Marco Hatch, a marine ecologist at Western Washington University and an enrolled member of the Samish Indian Nation. Hatch has been conducting surveys of mollusks growing in and around clam gardens in the Pacific north-west, as he collaborates with… |
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| Besties in Science: Graduate Students Study Swinomish Clam Garden | |||
| Western Washington University to partner in $30M NSF Center for Braiding Indigenous Knowledges and Science | |||
| Meet Mitchell Gibbs, WWU's visiting Fulbright scholar from Australia | |||
| A new approach to science rooted in Indigenous tradition | MEGHNA CHAKRABARTI: If you walk along the beach on the Pacific Northwest coast, you might not notice some very special things. They're called clam gardens, and they've been sitting along the shore for thousands of years. MARCO HATCH: Clam gardens are these really special intertidal… |
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| Tribe reviving traditional shellfish resources, management practices | “There are places that once held millions and millions of oysters and now they are completely gone,” said Marco Hatch, an environmental sciences professor at Western Washington University and a partner in the Indigenous Aquaculture Collaborative Network that helped organize the… |
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| Solutions: A professor digs for clams to boost sustainability and the environment | For the better part of the last 20 years, Western Washington University environmental science professor Marco Hatch has had his hands in the muddy shores of the Pacific Northwest and Canada, digging for clams. Specifically, Hatch has dedicated his life's work to clam gardens and… |
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| WWU’s Marco Hatch Awarded a Coveted 2023 Pew Fellowship in Marine Conservation | |||
| Farming our way to starvation: Unsustainable food systems | Marco Hatch, an associate professor of Environmental Science at Western Washington University and a member of the Samish Indian Nation, works in the Pacific Northwest with … |
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| Swinomish Tribe builds U.S.’s first modern ‘clam garden,' reviving ancient practice | It takes a butter clam about three years to grow to harvestable size, according to Western Washington University marine ecologist and Samish Nation member Marco Hatch. “What we're doing here is something that hasn't been done in living memory, which is build a clam… |