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Indigenous Sovereignty and Collaborative Science Resource Collection

Indigenous Sovereignty and Collaborative Science Resource Collection

Tue, Mar 31 2026, 3 - 4pm

Speaker(s): Sabra Comet and Nick Soberal

Location: Webinar

Program staff and collection co-authors gave a special presentation to share more about the Indigenous Knowledge and Collaborative Science Resource Collection. The goal of this collection is to support people who want to understand how collaborative science can align with and affirm Indigenous sovereignty and rights to self-determination. The NERRS Science Collaborative program and partners created this collection in response to a need expressed by project teams and reserve partners; namely, to better understand sovereignty and what it means for collaborative science. Together, we are learning how to better support project teams who are working with Native nations or who wish to do so. We hope that the information presented in this collection will help people to better understand the broader context of this topic, and to be respectful of knowledge that is not, and cannot be assumed to be, theirs. 

Speakers:

sabra comet

Sabra Comet, South Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve

Sabra is the Training and Engagement Program Coordinator at the South Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, an Osage Nation Tribal member, and a former Sea Grant Knauss Fellow. They served as a co-author for the written pieces and co-led the development of the overall design of the collection. 

nick soberal

Nick Soberal, NERRS Science Collaborative

Nick Soberal is a science communications specialist and serves as a program officer for knowledge exchange and capacity building projects. In addition to supporting program management activities, Nick leads the development of science communications products that synthesize and share stories across projects, maintains the project catalog and resource library, and produces the program’s Collaborative Science for Estuaries webinar series. He served as a co-author for the written pieces and co-led the development process for the overall collection.

Moderator:

doug george

Doug George, NOAA Office for Coastal Management

Doug George is a trained geological oceanographer and the program manager for the NERRS Science Collaborative. He has worked throughout the West Coast as a federal scientist, state resource manager, and environmental consultant with projects ranging from estuary restoration and living shorelines to regional sediment management and climate change adaptation.