Nazune Menka (Athabascan/Lumbee)
Board Position
Student Board Member, 2011–2012
Committee Membership
Chapter, Native American Affairs
Institutional Affiliations
Resilience & Adaptation IGERT Fellow, PhD Candidate
University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Department of Wildlife Biology
Websites
http://www.uaf.edu/rap/ and http://nazune.blogspot.com/
Field
Interdisciplinary Research
Specialization: Environmental Chemistry
Biography
Nazune is a doctoral student pursuing and interdisciplinary degree in Wildlife Biology and Environmental Chemistry. She is a National Science Foundation Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeeship Fellow in the Resilience and Adaptation Program at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Her research interests include community based participatory research in Alaska Native tribal communities and persistent organic pollutants. Currently, she is working to obtain tissue samples of moose, caribou, and wolf to analyze for an emerging contaminant polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE).
Ms. Menka has participated in programs such as the George Washington University Native American Political Leadership Program, the American Indian Science and Engineering Society Center for Disease Control internship program, the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium internship program, a National Park Service internship, the Four Directions Summer Research Program at Harvard Medical School, and an Environmental Careers Organization at the Environmental Protection Agency.
She has been a student member of SACNAS beginning in 2001 as an undergraduate while at North Carolina State University, a graduate student at Arizona State University and currently as a doctoral student at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. She is currently working to bring SACNAS to Alaska by assisting undergraduate students to create chapters in Anchorage and Fairbanks and serves on the Chapter Committee for SACNAS.
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