Papers, Presentations and Outreach

Papers, Presentations & Outreach

The EaSEIL team has created and participated in varied works including conference posters, literature reviews, workshops, presentations, and more!

Student authors are indicated with a “*”

Book chapters

Hewitt, N., Mazabel,S., Lukes,L., Eaton,B., Bower, J. cnúk. (2025). Fostering a sense of place and partnership in geoscience field education with Indigenous and other communities. In J. E. Wessell (Ed.), Experiential Learning in Geography II: The World as our Classroom (pp. 45-60). Springer Nature. http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-82575-0

Papers

Lukes L., Rocha*, L. (2025). Testing Students as Partners Theory: Science and Engineering Students’ Perspectives on a Students as Partner Consultant Model for Supporting an Instructor-Centered Curriculum Development Community of Practice. International Journal for Students as Partners. https://doi.org/10.15173/ijsap.v9i2.5951.

Lukes, L., Mazabel, S., Sherman, S. B., Gilley, B. & Pete, S. (2023). Designing a collaborative faculty-student mentoring model in a large, complex science curriculum development team project. New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 175, Special issue: Nurturing the faculty-student mentoring dynamic in higher Education, 61-70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/tl.20559

Presentations

  • Lukes, L. Mazabel, S., Hewitt, N., Gabriel, D., Maldonado, M., Cardinal-McTeague, W., Scoates, J., Filipenko, S., & Ivanochko, T. (December, 2024). New tools to support instructors re/designing field courses. American Geophysical Union Conference, Washington, D.C.
  • Fitz-Gerald*, W., Pete, S., Gilley, B., Lukes, L., Sherman, S.B., & Mazabel, S. (2023, December). Design and implementation: A 3-tiered model for engaging with Indigenous communities in academic scholarship. American Geophysical Union Conference, San Francisco, USA. 
  • Fitz-Gerald*, W., Lukes, L., & Pete, S. (2023, December). Developing a reflection toolkit to empower current and future researchers in responsible action towards Indigenous reconciliation in science. American Geophysical Union Conference, San Francisco, USA. 
  • Gilley, B., Lukes, L., Pete, S., & Sherman, S.B. (2023, June). The EaSEIL project. National Association of Geoscience Teachers Pacific Northwest Section, New Westminster, Canada. 
  • Gilley, B., Lukes, L., Pete, S., & Sherman, S.B., (2023, May). EaSEIL: Indigenous engagement in EOAS. British Columbia Earth Science Articulation Meeting, Vancouver, Canada.
  • Lukes, L., Mazabel, S., Sherman, S.B., Pete, S., & Gilley, B. (2022, October). Developing an initial theory of change for the Earth Science Experiential and Indigenous Learning (EaSEIL) Project, a faculty and curriculum development project. The Geological Society of America, Denver (USA) and Online.  
  • Lukes, L., Sheppard*, P., Gilley, B., and Sherman, S. B., (2022, December), Identifying Opportunities for Incorporating Universal Design in Field-Based Geoscience Courses: A Students-as-Partners Approach, Abstract ED45A-03 presented at 2022 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
  • Lukes, L., Pete, S. (2022, April). Developing a toolkit for assessing student perceptions of how Indigenous issues intersect with their field of study. Presented at Skylight Science Education Open House, Vancouver, Canada. 
  • Lukes, L., Pete, S., Sherman, S.B., & Gilley, B. (2022, March). Reimagining field-based experiential learning at the University of British Columbia: The EaSEIL Project. Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences Department Colloquium at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. 

Workshops

  • Mazabel, S. & Lukes, L. (2024, January). Taking Students into the Field: Strategies for Creating Inclusive Field-Based Learning Environments. Presented in American Geophysical Union Conference Conference, Online.
  • Mazabel, S. & Lukes, L. (2023, November). Fostering cultural and curricular change through communities of practice models. POD Network, 49th Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, USA.
  • Mazabel, S., Lukes, L., Sherman, S. B., & Pete, S. (2023, April). Positionality statements: Fostering inclusion in the classroom and transparency in STEM educational research. Presented in X-DBER Conference, Online.
  • Fitz-Gerald*, W. (2022, May). Braiding Indigenous Knowledges and Western Science. Presented in University of British Columbia Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences Department, Vancouver, Canada.

Panels

  • Lukes, L. (2023, April). Students as Partners (SaP): Exploring the theory and practice of SaP in the Faculty of Science [Panel presentation]. Skylight: The Science Centre for Learning and Teaching, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
  • Lukes, L. (2023, April). Working Alongside: Collaborative Pathways to Decolonize/Indigenize Teaching and Learning [Panel presentation]. Closing Plenary for Celebrate Learning Week, Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

Posters

Lukes, L., Mazabel, S., Pete, S., Sherman, S.B., & Gilley, B. (2025, May). Earth Science Experiential and Indigenous Learning (EaSEIL) Initiative: Year 3. Presented at TLEF and ALT-2040 Virtual Showcase, UBC Vancouver and Okanagan Campuses, Canada.

Yeung, J., Lukes, L., Mazabel, S., & Ma Zhu, S., (2025, April). Student Perspectives on Field Experiences Offered in the Geological Engineering Program. Presented at UBC Skylight Open House, Vancouver, Canada. 

A research poster titled "Preparing the Next Generation of Geoscientists in the Field." To access the full text, please click on the PDF link.

Scoates, J. & Hickey, K., (December, 2024). Preparing the Next Generation of Geoscientists in the Field. American Geophysical Union Conference, Washington, D.C., USA.

A research poster titled "Designing field learning experiences with accessibility and inclusion scenarios in mind: a reflection and planning tool." To access the full text, please click on the PDF link.

Mazabel, S., Lukes, L., Gilley, B., Sherman, S.B., & Pete, S. (2024, July). Designing field-learning experiences with accessibility and inclusion scenarios in mind: A reflection and planning tool. Earth Educators’ Rendezvous, Philadelphia, USA.

A research poster titled "Designing field learning experiences with the end in mind: a reflection and planning tool for instructors." To access the full text, please click on the PDF link.

Lukes, L., Mazabel, L., Sherman, S.B., & Pete, S. (2024, July). Designing field-learning experiences with the end in mind: reflection and planning tool. Earth Educators’ Rendezvous, Philadelphia, USA.

A research poster titled "Earth Science Experiential and Indigenous Learning (EaSEIL) Initiative." To access the full text, please click on the PDF link.

Lukes, L., Mazabel, S., Pete, Sherman, B., & Gilley, B. (2024, May). Earth Science Experiential and Indigenous Learning (EaSEIL) Initiative. Presented at TLEF and ALT-2040 Virtual Showcase, UBC Vancouver and Okanagan Campuses, Canada.

A research poster titled "Geological Mapping at Field School in the Virtual environment." To access the full text, please click on the PDF link.

Scoates, J.S., Hickey, K.A., Moerhuis, N., Spence, D W., Steiner, A. P., & Saylor, J. E. (December, 2023). Geological Mapping at Field School in the Virtual Environment. American Geophysical Union Conference, San Francisco, USA. 

A research poster titled "Impact of an advisory role students as partners model in a field-based science learning curriculum development initiative." To access the full text, please click on the PDF link.

Rocha*, L., Lukes L., Mazabel, S., Sherman, S.B (2023, October). Impact of an advisory role students-as-partners model in a field-based science learning curriculum development initiative. Presented in session titled Making Sense of Methodologies and Theoretical Frameworks in Geoscience Education Research. The Geological Society of America, Pittsburgh, USA.

A research poster titled "What I want instructors to know: students sharing experiences and perspectives on elarning science in field settings and beyond." To access the full text, please click on the PDF link.

Sherman, B., Lukes, L., Mazabel, S., Dupuis*, S., Pete, S., EaSEIL SaP. (2023, July). What I want instructors to know: Students sharing experiences and perspectives on learning science in field settings and beyond. Presented at Earth Educator’s Rendezvous, Pasadena, USA.

A research poster titled "Earth Science Experiential and Indigenous Learning (EaSEIL) Initiative." To access the full text, please click on the PDF link.

Lukes, L., Mazabel, S., Pete, S., Sherman, B., & Gilley, B. (2023, May). Earth Science Experiential and Indigenous Learning (EaSEIL Project). Presented at The TLEF and ALT-2040 Virtual Showcase, Vancouver & Okanagan, Canada.

A research poster titled "Supporting Accessibility and Inclusivity in Field-based Education: Development of an Interactive Self-Guided Virtual Tour of a Geological Field School," authored by Cynthia Liu and Laura A. Lukes. To access the full text, please click on the PDF link.

Liu*, C., & Lukes, L., (2022, October). Supporting Accessibility and Inclusivity in field-based education: Development of an Interactive Self-guided virtual tour of a Geological Field School. The Geological Society of America, Denver, USA.

A research poster titled "Evaluation of a students as partners approach in phase 1 of the Earth Science Experiential and Indigenous Learning (EaSEIL) project." To access the full text, please click on the PDF link.

Lukes, L., Sherman, S. B., Mazabel, S., Gilley, B., & Pete, S. (2022, October). Evaluation of a students as partner approach in phase 1 of the Earth Science Experiential and Indigenous Learning (EaSEIL) Project. The Geological Society of America, Denver, USA.

A research poster titled "Multiple views, multiple experiences: Integrating Indigenous Perspectives in Science Field-based Education Courses." To access the full text, please click on the PDF link.

Mazabel, S., Lukes, L., Pete, S., Sherman, B., & Gilley, B. (2022, June). Multiple views, multiple experiences: Integrating Indigenous perspectives in science field-based education courses. Presented at 2022 Turtle Island Indigenous Science Conference, Manitoba, Canada.

A research poster titled "Student-led programming to support a culture of two-eyed seeing in postsecondary science settings (research lab groups and students)" To access the full text, please click on the PDF link.

Fitzgerald*, W., Lukes, L., Pete, S., Mazabel, S., Sherman, S.B. (2022, June). Student-led programming to support a culture of two-eyed seeing in postsecondary science settings (research lab groups and students). Presented at 2022 Turtle Island Indigenous Science Conference, Manitoba, Canada.

A research poster titled "EaSEIL: Earth Science Experiential and Indigenous Learning." To access the full text, please click on the PDF link.

Lukes, L., Pete, S., Mazabel, S., Sherman, B., & Gilley, B. (2022, April). EaSEIL: Earth science experiential and Indigenous learning. Presented at Skylight Science Education Open House, Vancouver, Canada & 2022 Turtle Island Indigenous Science Conference, Manitoba, Canada.

Mini-library: Indigenous Voices Collection

Events

  • Accessibility in Field-Based Learning and Indigenous Course Revision: Lessons from a Capstone Course in Natural Resources Conservation (2025, March). Webinar led by Nolan Bett and Warren Cardinal-McTeague. Co-hosts: EaSEIL and National Association of Geoscience Teachers (NAGT) Pacific Northwest Section.
  • Indigenous Perspectives in Data, Evidence and Uncertainty in Science (2024, October). Talk led by Shandin Pete. Co-hosts: EaSEIL and UBC Skylight Teaching Series. Webinar National Association of Geoscience Teachers (NAGT), Pacific Northwest Section. 
  • Indigenous Voices Collection Mini-Library Board Game Night for Students at Xwi7xwa Library (2024, September). Event facilitator: B.D. Voss (Student partner). Co-hosts: EaSEIL and Xwi7xwa Library.
  • Using the construct of novelty space to explore how experiences with disability intersect with experiences in science teaching and learning (2024, May). Seminar led by: Caitlin Callahan, Ph.D. Co-hosts: EaSEIL and UBC Skylight.
  • Musqueam Educational Tours (2024, April and October).  
  • Sncewips Heritage Museum Virtual Tour (2024, March; 2023, March; 2022, October). Tour led by museum docent: Coralee Miller.
  • EaSEIL at CTLT Indigenous Initiatives Classroom Climate Series: Approaches to engaging with Indigenous communities in science field-based learning experiences: Lessons and impact (2024, March). Co-hosted with CTLT Indigenous Initiatives
  • EaSEIL Research Update (2023, November). 
  • X̱wi7x̱wa Library Tour (2023, July). Tour led by EaSEIl partners: Karleen Delaurier-Lyle & Kayla Lar-Son.  
  • Embedding belonging supportive practices in the field (2023, June). Seminar led by: Alison Jolley. Hybrid event.
  • EaSEIL Research Update (2023, November), session led by Laura Lukes, Ph.D.
  • Exploring the Intersection of Indigenous Knowledge and Western Science (2022, May). Seminar led by Wylee Fitz-Gerald*.
  • Where do we go from here? Reimagining Field-Based Experiential Learning and Research Beyond COVID-19 Seminar Series (2022, March – April). Facilitated by Laura Lukes and co-hosted by the UBC EOAS Seminar Series: David Mogk, Ph.D. (University of Montana), Kayla Lar-son (UBC), Katherine Ryker, Ph.D. (University of South Carolina), Steve Semken, Ph.D (Arizona State University), Ryan Petterson, Ph.D (Stanford University)

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