Sophia Overturf 

CODES 

Dr.Hildebrandt 

1/24/24 

Source #1 

North American Birds Will No Longer Be Named for Racists — or Anybody Else 

This article is about how birds’ names should be changed due to the names relations with people in general. As it has caused many problems, it is time for a change for the better. So now the birds will be named based on how they appear and where they live. Instead of being named after whoever found them, they will have more symbolic names that tell you more about them. 

  1. I think this source was created to inform people about what is going on in the science world when it comes to naming things. 
  1. This source is important to us because we are doing research into plants which have a similar naming issue similar to the birds and other wildlife. 
  1. Something that surprised me in this source is that of all times they could have tried to change names. They just decided to officially put it into motion a few months ago. 

Source #2 

The New Newyorker 

This talks about how Carl Linnaeus may have created the way we scientifically name things. They may have a clear and precise description but are impossible to fully remember. He was also fully aware of the limitations of his classification system. So even today we may have things with scientific names (humans included) it is easier to just shorten the name, so it is easier to classify and remember. 

  1.  This source is important to us because it tells us about how scientific names were created. So, it is important to us since we are learning about the plants and history of them. 
  1.  This teaches us that even when something is used by the entire scientific community, that it can be wrong sometimes and even the creator knows it. 
  1.  I think the audience of this source is people who want to learn more about the scientific names of things and where they come from. 

Sophia Overturf 

CODES 

Dr. Hildebrandt 

2/14/24 

Highs and Lows: How climate change is impacting people and plants in the Himalayas 

The Himalayas are one of the most botanically rich alpine areas in the world. Scientists went to the mountains to research climate change and how it impacted the plants and people that lived there. So, talking to locals is very important to see what they have noticed any disruptions that may be caused by climate change. With this information the botanists can work to find ways to help locals find plants with adaptations that are similar to the plants that are dying out.  

  1. This source is important to us because it gives information about botany and how plants can be affected by climate change over time negatively affecting locals. It is also important because it is directly related to the garden and a botanist that we have met and talked to was mentioned in the article. 
  1. This source helps us understand that if we are going to start solving our problem, that we need to speak with local people about the problem to get their information and ideas about it. 
  1. This source’s purpose was to inform, to explain some of the work the botanists of the garden have been doing and how it has been going for them.  

The coloniality of planting 

Planting was considered a form of colonial violence. Colonial botany involved the process of both extraction and erasure: the extraction of local knowledge, plants information and labor. It also involved the erasure of indigenous knowledge and ecological practices. With the pandemic it resurfaced environmental racism, but a woman named Carole Wright has a project that aims to address the lack of racial diversity within horticulture. However, there is a need to protect the environment from humans instead of thinking of them as a part of the ecological system.  

  1. This source is important to us because my group is looking into colonialism in the plant world, and this is a good article to look at to get an idea of what we need to focus on next. 
  1. I think the audience of this source is groups similar to ours, that are looking into the history of plants and how they have been affected by colonialism. 
  1. What surprised me about the article is that the idea of colonialism has been brought back to light even though it has been a problem for a long time. 

Biblography 

mbgadmin. “Highs and Lows: How Climate Change Is Impacting People and Plants in the Himalayas.” Discover + Share, 8 Dec. 2023, https://discoverandshare.org/2023/12/08/highs-and-lows-how-climate-change-is-impacting-people-and-plants-in-the-himalayas/. 

Sheikh, Shela, and Ros Gray. The Coloniality of Planting. https://learn-us-east-1-prod-fleet01-xythos.content.blackboardcdn.com/blackboard.learn.xythos.prod/598bd11974856/21517849?X-Blackboard-S3-Bucket=blackboard.learn.xythos.prod&X-Blackboard- 

ophia Overturf 

CODES 
Dr. Hildebrant 

2/21/24 

Slavey and Botany 

The world is still reeling from colonialism due to racism, subjugation, slavery, and genocide there is few preserved accounts from indigenous and African American people during the colonial people. As Christianity spread the surviving indigenous people experience erasure of their culture, religion, and tradition. They were stripped of their identity and their relationship with nature. Missionaries found it necessary to know about native medicine so they could discredit it. Between 2.5 and 5 million native Americans were enslaved, between Columbus’ arrival and the late 19th century when the system declined, slavery still did not disappear completely. 

  1.  This source was created to inform people about slavery and how it has affected the world and tell about things that might not be as well known about that time. 
  1.  This source surprised me because it really shows that even with the information that we do have about slavery, we still do not know the complete story.  
  1.   This source is important because it explains how colonialism has affected history in general, but also how many things were lost because of it. 

“SLAVERY AND BOTANY.” Center for Plants & Culture, https://www.plantsandculture.org/slaveryandbotany. Accessed 21 Feb. 2024. 

Sophia Overturf 

CODES 
Dr. Hildebrandt 

3/19/24  

Verbing science- Rose Bear Don’t Walk 

Use it or lose it, if we do not talk or teach about plants the knowledge can be lost forever. There has been a note in a shift in seasonality of the plants, to the point harvesting patterns have been changed. The loss of different landscapes is due to housing and agriculture, which takes away places where plants used to grow. This can also be affected by the government since they want to have a sort of control over the tribes of people. They want to make sure they have control over everything including food, which when they were used to eating, would create a shift in their health for the worse. 

  1.  The purpose of this source is to inform about how people can be negatively affected by colonialism, which tends to result in a loss of 1,000s of years of information and how it may have been used. Also to inform about how government can take control over people and that control results in life for those people going downhill extremely quickly. 
  1.  This source is important to our research team and the smaller team I am apart of because it explains how colonialism can mess an entire culture up. 
  1.  This source helps us understand that when people have a direct impact on others or their cultures, that the lost information is almost impossible to recover. 

CritQuant: School of Education Faculty and Students Join a Movement to Disrupt Traditional Research Methods 

The CQT seeks to disrupt the traditional dichotomy between qualitative and quantitative research methods. It also seeks to use data and statistics in a more equitable way, by arguing that it might become a more useful and racially just method of examining social justice questions. Critquant  forces researchers to position themselves in the research and ask them to consider their biases and subjectivity. Quantitative research often can situate deficits on the people being studied, where CritQuant research can be used to examine structures. 

  1.  This source was created to inform about how there is a new method of research that can help with the problems of both quantitative and qualitative research. 
  1. The audience of this source is researchers and people doing research, to show that there is another way to go about researching things and people. 
  1. This source is important to use because, at the very beginning of CODES we were looking for any information we could find on either research method. So, this source explains how we can look further than the 2 types of research we have looked into before. 

Verbing Science! With Rose Bear Don’t Walk. www.youtube.com, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlul0Au5a8A. Accessed 20 Mar. 2024. 

Walls, Martin. “CritQuant: School of Education Faculty and Students Join a Movement to Disrupt Traditional Research Methods.” SU News, 6 Dec. 2023, https://news.syr.edu/blog/2023/12/06/critquant-school-of-education-faculty-and-students-join-a-movement-to-disrupt-traditional-research-methods/.