Myrle Ballard, FRSC

Myrle Ballard, PhD, FRSC, is an Associate Professor, Department of Earth, Energy and Environment at the University of Calgary and Canada Research Chair Tier II in Weaving Indigenous Science and Sustainability Science. She is an Anishinaabe scientist from Lake St. Martin First Nation. Her work focuses on Indigenous Science and the environmental and ecosystem knowledge held by many Indigenous Peoples. She developed and is applying a Three-Eyed Seeing framework—an approach that braids together Indigenous Science, Western Science, and Our Relations—to the study and stewardship of aquatic ecosystems.

She serves on numerous committees and working groups and was recently an Invited Expert with the United Nation’s (UN) Global Environmental Outlook. She was also selected as Lead Author on the UN’s Working Group III contribution to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Seventh Assessment Report, Chapter 4, Sustainable Development and Mitigation. She was named the first Director of the Indigenous Science Division at Environment and Climate Change Canada.

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