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Artemis


Artemis endeavors to get more women in the field and on the water, to support women as leaders in the conservation movement, to ensure the vitality of our lands, waters, and wildlife. Artemis endeavors to change the face of conservation.

Feb 4, 2021

Brianne Lauro had a very specific idea of who she wanted to be, professionally, when she left the island of Hawaii to study fisheries management on the Mainland. But the deeper she got into her studies, the more she realized that her family's culture of knowing the sea was also science... so why wasn't it being included in management decisions? Brianne tells us about receiving the wisdom of the ocean from her elders, something that happened when she showed up and asked.

2:00 Pssst... in case you missed it, Artemis is accepting applications for 2021 ambassadors! Apply here! We're also hiring a communications coordinator to work on Artemis and other NWF projects

3:30 Octopus, or tako finally makes an appearance in our freezer selfies! This is the time of year when octopi are venturing from the deep into the shallows, making it an opportune time for harvest

4:00 Octopus harvesting is usually learned from family, person to person

6:00 Hawaii has nearly year-round hunting; Growing up in a hunting family there means you can get out a lot

7:00 Studying fisheries management to get a toehold in the door for local people, who are sometimes occluded from wildlife/land management processes

12:00 Higher education utterly changes your lens on the world... changing majors to fit a changing world view

16:00 Are degree'd outsiders making most of the decisions? How can community knowledge and connection to place be of equal value to research when it comes to how we make land management decisions?

18:00 Find Brianne Lauro on Insta @Brianne_Lauro

20:00 Listening to the elders in your family and absorbing their wisdom about your family's place

23:00 We have to ASK if we want to RECEIVE knowledge from older people, and their knowledge of a landscape is totally different than ours, in many cases

27:00 Being nomadic at certain times of your life sometimes grows your vision, but it's also time you're missing out on knowing one place intimately

30:00 Culture changes when people move away. It used to be unheard of to meet a Native Hawaiian who didn't know how to catch fish -- but that's changing

31:00 The middle ground between being a youth and being an elder

35:00 Don't ask kids, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" -- try asking, "What kind of person do you want to be? What values do you want to hold?"

41:00 By documenting elders, sometimes we pay attention to their knowledge better -- watching the moon, the tides, the sky -- and then knowing how fish respond

45:00 First-hand experiential and generational knowledge is as valuable as empirical science

48:00 Research alone can't solve big conservation problems

56:00 Don't forget to join us on Facebook! Artemis has a super-fun Facebook group for listeners!