Amanda Karst

Research Associate at the Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources (CIER)

Amanda is a Research Associate at the Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources (CIER). For the last decade, she has worked with First Nations and Métis communities across Canada on environmental initiatives. Her work at CIER has involved watershed planning, youth engagement, traditional foods and medicines, climate change, and environmental monitoring. She has worked on CIER water projects such as the First Nations Watershed Planning Guidebooks, Youth Water Leaders program, and First Nations Water Security project. She obtained her M.Sc. in Biology (ethnobotany/plant ecology) from the University of Victoria in 2005. Amanda is Métis, originally from Saskatchewan