Faculty Profile
Madeline L Nyblade
Assistant Professor
Department of Environmental Studies
235 Marshall Hall
Education
PhD, Earth and Environmental Science, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
BS, Geoscience, Penn State University
Courses
EST 140: Introduction to Native Peoples, Lands, and Cultures (Fall and Spring semester)
EST 797: Community Based Participatory Research (Fall semester)
Publications
Nyblade, M., Larkin, D.J., Vogt, D. et al. Climate change contributes to the decline in off-reservation tribal harvest availability in the Great Lakes region. Commun Earth Environ 6, 288 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02233-0
Leonard, K., C. Avery, J. Manitowabi, M. Nyblade, N. D. Smiles, T.R. Hedman, S. Smith, C. Toulouse. D. David-Chavez. (2025). Chapter 3: Water Justice. The Status of Tribes and Climate Change. Volume 2. Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals.
Panek, B., K. James, N. M. Montano, J. Graveen, M. Nyblade. (2025). Chapter 8: Indigenous Ways of Not Knowing. The Status of Tribes and Climate Change. Volume 2. Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals.
Nyblade, M., Graveen, W., Montano, M., Panek, B., & King, H. J. (2023). Tribal-University Partnership Methodology for Re-searching with Manoomin/Psin (Ojibwe/Dakota for Wild Rice). In E. Sumida Huaman & N. Martin (Eds.), Indigenous research design: Transnational perspectives in practice. Canadian Scholars and Women’s Press.
Nyblade, M., & McDonald, J. (2021). Recognizing Geology’s Colonial History for Better Policy Today. Eos 102. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1029/2021EO162069
Matson, L., Ng, G.-H. C., Dockry, M., King, H. J., Nyblade, M., Bellcourt, M., Bunting, P., Chapman, E., Davenport, M., Graveen, W., Hedin, K., Howes, T., Johnson Sr, J., Kesner, S., Kojola, E., LaBine, R., Larkin, D., Myrbo, A., Porter, M., … Vogt, D. J. (2021). Transforming research and relationships through collaborative tribal-university partnerships on manoomin (wild rice). Environmental Science and Policy.
Current Graduate Advisees
Corey Edgar
cledgar@syr.edu
- Degree Sought: MS
- Graduate Advisor(s): Nyblade
- Area of Study: Environmental Science
Mia Glover
mglover@syr.edu
- Degree Sought: PHD
- Graduate Advisor(s): Drew and Nyblade
- Area of Study: Environmental & Forest Biology
Links
https://www.esf.edu/nativepeoples/index.php https://www.chaoslab.net/ https://www.madelinenyblade.com/
Bio
Mia Glover is a PhD student in Environmental Biology at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry and a Sloan Scholar in the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment. Her dissertation, Blue Carbon, Governance, and Colonial Ecologies in Coastal Fiji, examines how colonial legacies and contemporary customary governance influence the distribution of carbon-rich mangrove and seagrass ecosystems, as well as their alignment with food sovereignty and climate resilience in coastal Fiji. Mia uses drone-based photogrammetry, hierarchical joint species distribution models, and participatory mapping with Indigenous communities to assess blue carbon dynamics and to advance approaches for Indigenous data sovereignty. Her research spans ecological monitoring, spatial modeling, and socio-cultural analysis to better understand the links between marine ecosystems, food sovereignty, and climate adaptation. In addition to her fieldwork in Fiji, Mia is a research assistant for the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment. For the Center, she leads projects that include water-chemistry analyses to establish baseline conditions amid ongoing development pressures on the Onondaga and Tonawanda Seneca Nations, as well as a data-sovereignty initiative to create partnership protocols for collaborations with Indigenous Nations. Through these partnerships, she works to connect Indigenous nations across regions, fostering knowledge exchange and contributing to a more globally unified approach to coastal stewardship and climate resilience.
Graduate Research Topic
Blue Carbon, Governance, and Colonial Ecologies in Coastal Fiji
Aaron Hagman
aahagman@syr.edu
- Degree Sought: PHD
- Graduate Advisor(s): Mcgee and Nyblade
- Area of Study: Environmental & Forest Biology
Shannon Lowry
shlowry@syr.edu
- Degree Sought: MS
- Graduate Advisor(s): Nyblade
- Area of Study: Environmental Science
Nevaeh Marshall
nemarsha@syr.edu
- Degree Sought: MS
- Graduate Advisor(s): Nyblade and Kayira
- Area of Study: Environmental Science