Ryan Emanuel
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Ryan Emanuel (born 1977) is an Indigenous American environmental scientist and associate professor at Duke University.[1] His research centers around hydrology and the impact environmental issues have on Indigenous communities. A member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, he also advocates for Indigenous rights and environmental justice, most notably in his study detailing the disproportionate effects the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline would have on Indigenous communities along the planned route.[2]
Early life and education
Ryan Emanuel was born in 1977 in Charlotte, North Carolina.[3][4] He is an enrolled member on the Lumbee tribe and would spend time with his family in a Lumbee cultural center.[3] He was encouraged at a young age to pursue the sciences, so he might be able to return and give back to his community.[3] His family lived in segregated schools, so he was the first generation of his family to attend an integrated school.[1] Emanuel acquired a Geology degree from Duke University in 1997, then continued his education at University of Virginia, where he received a masters in 2003 and doctorate in 2007, both in environmental sciences.[5]
Career
Ryan Emanuel started as an assistant professor at Appalachian State University for the department of geology from 2007 to 2010.[5] During his time at ASU, he co-founded AppalAIR, which is the Appalachian Atmospheric Inter-Disciplinary Research program where students can have real field experiences in the southern Appalachians and Rocky Mountains.[5] He continued his career at North Carolina State University from 2010 to 2021 as a faculty member, where he lead the Ecohydrology and the Watershed lab.[5] Ryan helps other indigenous people's success in STEM-based fields by serving on AISES, which is the Academic Advisory Council for American Indian Science and Engineering Society.[5]
Emanuel had a paper published in June 2021, about natural gas pipelines that were predominantly in counties with higher risks of disasters.[6] His research played a part in the Atlantic Coast Pipeline being cancelled in 2020 due to his filings with the Federal Energy Regulation Commission, which exhibited the heavy-handed fashion in which it would affect indigenous peoples living within the area.[2] In 2022, he began working at Duke University as an associate professor.[5] Emanuel has also been a part of over 50 publications since 2006, with most covering the southeast region of the US, particularly the Appalachian region and surrounding areas.[5]
He is also the author of the 2024 book "On the Swamp: Fighting for Indigenous Environmental Justice", which details the eastern region of North Carolina and analyzes its history as an ancestral homeland for the Lumbee people, throughout the colonization of North America to today.[3]
Awards and honors
In 2018, Ryan Emanuel received the University Sustainability Award from North Carolina State University, as well as the Distinguished Service to Indian Education award from the United Tribes of North Carolina.[7]
In 2019, he was given the Steve Wing International Environmental Justice Award from the North Carolina Environmental Justice Network in honor of his work examining the effects of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline.[1] That same year he also received the Alumni Association Distinguished Graduate Professorship Award from North Carolina State University, the Donnelley Family Fellowship, the Benjamin N. Duke Fellowship of the Research Triangle Foundation from the National Humanities Center, and was a nominee for the Governor James E. Holshouser, Jr. Award for Excellence in Public Service.[7]
In 2020, Emanuel was awarded William C. Friday Fellowship for Human Relations from the Wildacres Leadership Initiative.[7]
Selected publications
- Emanuel RE (2017), Flawed environmental justice analyses, Science 357 DOI:10.1126/science.aao2684
- Riveros-Iregui, D. A., R. E. Emanuel, D. J. Muth, B. L. McGlynn, H. E. Epstein, D. L. Welsch, V. J. Pacific, and J. M. Wraith (2007), Diurnal hysteresis between soil CO2 and soil temperature is controlled by soil water content, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L17404, doi:10.1029/2007GL030938.
- Nippgen, F., B. L.McGlynn, L. A.Marshall, and R. E.Emanuel (2011), Landscape structure and climate influences on hydrologic response, Water Resour. Res., 47, W12528, doi:10.1029/2011WR011161.
- Rice, J. S., R. E. Emanuel, J. M. Vose, and S. A. C. Nelson (2015), Continental U.S. streamflow trends from 1940 to 2009 and their relationships with watershed spatial characteristics, Water Resour. Res., 51, 6262–6275, doi:10.1002/2014WR016367.
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Ryan Emanuel". Duke Centennial. Retrieved 2024-10-30.
- ^ a b Hahn, Jonathan (2020-07-08). "Sustained Opposition Derails Three Major Oil and Gas Pipelines". Sierra. Retrieved 2024-10-30.
- ^ a b c d Kapoor, Maya L. (2024-05-17). "In a debut book, a love letter to eastern North Carolina — and an indictment of colonialism as a driver of climate change". Grist. Retrieved 2024-10-30.
- ^ Hunt, Dianna; Estus, Joaqlin; Arlin Walker, Richard (2021-10-27). "Climate Change: Homelands in peril". ICT News. Retrieved 2024-11-02.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Ryan Emanuel, Noted Scholar on Water and Indigenous Rights, to Join Nicholas School Faculty". Nicholas School of the Environment. 2021-03-17. Retrieved 2024-10-31.
- ^ Palmer, Jane (2021-11-22). "Water Wisdom: The Indigenous Scientists Walking in Two Worlds". Eos. Retrieved 2024-11-01.
- ^ a b c "Ryan Emanuel | Scholars@Duke profile: Recognition". scholars.duke.edu. Retrieved 2024-10-30.