Dr. Melinda Adams
Asst. Prof KU | Indigenous fire scholar | Apache Env. Scientist | @ucdavis alum #goodfire 🔥🌿
- Received 3 PhD grad student applications to work w me next year. Wow, I’m v. honored to be considered 🌱 & humbled by the growth of my program, so far.
- Nice write-up by the KU Center for Ecological Research 🌱🔥
- 💥Preorder your copy today! Our group opens the book with our chapter on “Rematriating Fire Stewardship”🤲🏽🌿 #wildfire #Indigenous
- 🔥Preorder and get 20% off here (code S26), shipping date is March 2026: osupress.oregonstate.edu/book/landkee...
- There will be live Q&A at our Good Fire webinar tomorrow! Link to register is in the comments 🌿🔥 #goodfire #wildfire
- Register for the zoom link here: nau.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
- Professor week 14 of fall 🍁🌻
- Yay to 1,000 of you 🌿🔥 hi! I hardly check in here, hope you’re well!
- 🚨Published today🚨We highlight 3 areas to support Indigenous-led fire: sustained funding, regulatory flexibility, & community partnerships 🔥🌿 #goodfire #wildfire #Indigenous
- Fire historian Stephen Pyne wrote a commentary on our recent 🔥PNAS article: “Fire practices can support appeals to comanage ancestral lands or transfer them outright. Fire has entered the larger discourse over colonization. Roos et al. make this case explicit.” #goodfire
- It happened y’all. My team and I rec’d an “accept with no revisions” on our paper to be published this winter. Exciting🔥🌿
- My lab’s 1st M.S. student unanimously passed her thesis proposal defense! She is Makah & Wichita and is studying fire-soil restoration🌱 #goodfire #wildfire
- Grateful to have spent time cultural burning in the Yosemite Valley last week..this pic was from 2021 & the lands & waters look so good! This is what Indigenous fire stewardship looks like #goodfire #wildfire #california
- Idk how many ppl are on @LinkedIn but I updated my profile, finally 🌿 let’s connect! www.linkedin.com/in/scholarme...
- Indigenous fire stewardship quick guide 🌿🔥 📸🧵 All articles can be found at scholarmelinda.com/reading-group #wildfire #goodfire
- ✨The article I’m most proud of: Solastalgia to soliphilia: cultural fire, climate change, and indigenous healing (2023). Melinda Adams, N’dee San Carlos Apache (OP).
- It’s #WorldSoilDay2024 🤲🏽 healthy plants need healthy soils: healthy soils need #goodfire 🌿🔥Here is my lab collecting pre burn cultural fire soil samples. #wildfire #science #Indigenous
- Indigenous Professor, I specialize in wildfire and Indigenous Science. New to 🔵☁️
