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2024

O’brien, M., Duerr, R., Taitingfong, R., Martinez, A., Vera, L., Jennings, L. L., Downs, R. R., Antognoli, E., Brink, T. T., Halmai, N. B., David-Chavez, D., Carroll, S. R., Hudson, M., & Buttigieg, P. L. (2024). Earth Science Data Repositories: Implementing the CARE Principles. Data Science Journal, 23, 37. https://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2024-037

Gazing Wolf, J., Ignace, D. D., David‐Chavez, D. M., Jennings, L. L., Smiles, D., Blanchard, P., Simmons, E., Doan‐Crider, D., Kills, R. P. S., Montgomery, M., Nelson, M. K., Black Elk, L., Black Elk, L., Bridge, G., Chischilly, A. M., Deer, K., DeerinWater, K., Ecoffey, T., Vergun, J., … Rattling Leaf, J. (2024). Centering Indigenous Knowledges in ecology and beyond. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, e2776. https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2776

David-Chavez, D. M., Gavin, M., Ortiz, N., Valdez, S., & Carroll, S. (2024). A values-centered relational science model: Supporting Indigenous rights and reconciliation in research. Ecology and Society, 29(2), art11. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-14768-290211

2023

Garba, I., Sterling, R., Plevel, R., Carson, W., Cordova-Marks, F. M., Cummins, J., Curley, C., David-Chavez, D., Fernandez, A., Hiraldo, D., Hiratsuka, V., Hudson, M., Jäger, M. B., Jennings, L. L., Martinez, A., Yracheta, J., Garrison, N. A., & Carroll, S. R. (2023). Indigenous Peoples and research: Self-determination in research governance. Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics, 8, 1272318. https://doi.org/10.3389/frma.2023.1272318

Hird, C., David-Chavez, D. M., Gion, S. S., & Van Uitregt, V. (2023). Moving beyond ontological (worldview) supremacy: Indigenous insights and a recovery guide for settler-colonial scientists. Journal of Experimental Biology, 226(12), jeb245302. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.245302

Hudson, M., Carroll, S. R., Anderson, J., Blackwater, D., Cordova-Marks, F. M., Cummins, J., David-Chavez, D. M., Fernandez, A., Garba, I., Hiraldo, D., Jäger, M. B., Jennings, L. L., Martinez, A., Sterling, R., Walker, J. D., & Rowe, R. K. (2023). Indigenous Peoples’ Rights in Data: A contribution toward Indigenous Research Sovereignty. Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics, 8, 1173805. https://doi.org/10.3389/frma.2023.1173805

Jennings, L., Anderson, T., Martinez, A., Sterling, R., David-Chavez, D. , Garba, I., Hudson, M., Garrison, N. A., & Carroll, S. R. (2023). Applying the ‘CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance’ to ecology and biodiversity research. Nature Ecology & Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02161-2

Leonard, K., David-Chavez, D. M., Smiles, D., Jennings, L., Alegado, R. ʻAnolani, Manitowabi, J., Arsenault, R., Begay, R. L., & Davis, D. D. (2023). Water Back: A Review Centering Rematriation and Indigenous Water Research Sovereignty. Water Alternatives, 16(2): 374-428.

Scheidel, A., Fernández-Llamazares, Á., Bara, A. H., Del Bene, D., David-Chavez, D. M., Fanari, E., Garba, I., Hanaček, K., Liu, J., Martínez-Alier, J., Navas, G., Reyes-García, V., Roy, B., Temper, L., Thiri, M. A., Tran, D., Walter, M., & Whyte, K. P. (2023). Global impacts of extractive and industrial development projects on Indigenous Peoples’ lifeways, lands, and rights. Science Advances, 9(23), eade9557. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.ade9557

Tripati, A., Shepherd, M., Morris, V., Andrade, K., Whyte, K. P., David-Chavez, D. M., Hosbey, J., Trujillo-Falcón, J. E., Hunter, B., Hence, D., Carlis, D., Brown, V., Parker, W. L., Geller, A., Reich, A., & Glackin, M. (2023). Centering Equity in the Nation’s Weather, Water, and Climate Services. Environmental Justice, env.2022.0048. https://doi.org/10.1089/env.2022.0048

2021

Fernández-Llamazares, A., Lepofsky, D., Geralda Armstrong, C., Brondizio, E.S., C. Gavin, M.C., Lertzman, K., Lyver, P.O., Nicholas, G.P., Pascua, P., Reo, N.J., Reyes-García, V., Turner, N.J., Yletyinen, J., Anderson, E.N., Balée, W., Cariño, J., David-Chavez, D.M., Dunn, C.P., Garnett, S.C., Greening, S., Jackson, S., Kuhnlein, H., Molnár, Z., Odonne, G., Retter, G., Ripple, W.J., Sáfián, L., Sharifian Bahraman, A., Torrents-Ticó1, M., Blaich Vaughan, M. (2021). Scientists’ Warning to Humanity on Threats to Indigenous and Local Knowledge systems. Journal of Ethnobiology, 41(2), 144-169. https://doi.org/10.2993/0278-0771-41.2.144.

Hudson, M., Nanibaa Garrison, N., Sterling, R., Caron, N., Fox, K., Yracheta, J., Anderson, J., Wilcox, P., Arbour, L., Brown, A., Kukutai, T., Taualii, M., Haring, R., Baynam, G., Dearden, P., Chagne, D., Malhi, R., Garba, I., Tiffin, N., Stott, M., Rolleston, A., Sporle, A., Walter, M., David-Chavez, D.M., Lovett, R., Reading, J., and Carroll, S. (2020). Rights, interests, and expectations: Indigenous perspectives on unrestricted access to genomic data. Nature Reviews Genetics, 21. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41576-020-0228-x

2012

Mack, E., Augare, H., Different Cloud-Jones, L., David, D., Quiver Gaddie, H., Honey R.E., Kawagley, A.O., Little Plume-Weatherwax, M., Lone Fight, L., Meier, G., Pete, T., Rattling Leaf, J., Returns From Scout, E., Sachatello-Sawyer, B., Shibata, H., Valdez, S., & Wippert, R. (2012). Effective practices for creating transformative informal science education programs grounded in Native ways of knowing. Cultural Studies of Science Education, 7(1), 49-70.

Book chapters

David-Chavez, D.M. (2020). Aitakuwahi: An Indigenous scientist’s pathway for regeneration and decolonization. In Gregory Cajete (Ed.), Native Minds Rising: Exploring Transformative Indigenous Education.

Policy briefs

Now or Never: The Urgent Need for Ambitious Climate Action, United States House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, 117th Cong. (2022) (testimony of Dr. Dominique David-Chavez).

Hiraldo, D., Russo Carroll, S., David-Chavez, D. M., Jager, M. B., Jorgensen, M. (2020). Policy Brief: Native Nation Rebuilding for Tribal Research and Data Governance. Native Nations Institute, University of Arizona.

David-Chavez, D.M., Ferguson, D. B., Curley, A., Lane, T., Yazzie, S., LeRoy, S., and Russo Carroll, S., (2019). Policy Brief: Supporting Tribal Data Governance for Indigenous Community Climate Resilience. Native Nations Institute and the Climate Assessment for the Southwest, University of Arizona.

Reports

Gardner-Vandy, K., Scalice, D., Chavez, J. C., David-Chavez, D. M., Daniel, K. J., Gonzales, E., Lee, A., Waterhouse, J., Yracheta, J. M., & Gorospe, G. (2021). Relationships First and Always: A Guide to Collaborations with Indigenous Communities. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 53(4), 471. https://doi.org/10.3847/25c2cfeb.0de1af1a.

UNESCO (2020). Mobilizing Indigenous and Local Knowledge Solutions: Addressing Climate Impacts and Vulnerabilities A Perspective from the Caribbean Region. Workshop Report. Georgetown, Guyana: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. (D. M. David-Chavez, Expert Contributor)

Web articles

David-Chavez, D.M. & Ortiz, N. (2018) Intergenerational research on Indigenous agricultural knowledge, climate resilience, and food security in the Caribbean. Global Change Forum. Raleigh, NC. Available in both English and Spanish.

2021

Dr. Dominique David-Chavez invited to interview for Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) climate change focused podcast series, Islands on Alert (2021)

Media coverage in Spanish language video on Dr. Dominique David-Chavez’s 2021 study produced by Planeteando, Ciencia ¿sin ética? (Science, without ethics?)

Dr. Dominique David-Chavez interviewed for KUNC regional public radio station CSU Professor Brings Indigenous Perspectives To New Natural Resources Class (2021)

2020

Dr. Dominique David-Chavez featured in Popular Mechanics, These 10 women are changing the way we talk about science (2020)

Dr. Dominique David-Chavez interviewed for Science Friday, How Native American Communities Are Addressing Climate Change (2020)

2019

Dr. Dominique David-Chavez interviewed for American Geophysical Union’s Eos article, Keeping Indigenous Science Knowledge out of a Colonial Mold (2019), translated in Spanish for 2020 Estudios Planeteando article Manteniendo el conocimiento de la ciencia indígena fuera de un molde colonial

Dr. Dominique David-Chavez interviewed for Colorado State University’s Source article, Move In 2019: ‘It’s historic, what’s happening here’ (2019)

Dr. Dominique David-Chavez interviewed for the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, Centennial Union Panel (2019) on People Impacted by Climate Change