Marco Hatch

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Western Washington University to partner in $30M NSF Center for Braiding Indigenous Knowledges and Science   2023-12-14
Meet Mitchell Gibbs, WWU's visiting Fulbright scholar from Australia 2023-11-15
A new approach to science rooted in Indigenous tradition

MEGHNA CHAKRABARTI: If you walk along the beach on the Pacific Northwest coast, you might not notice some very special things. They're called clam gardens, and they've been sitting along the shore for thousands of years.

MARCO HATCH: Clam gardens are these really special intertidal…

2023-10-10
Tribe reviving traditional shellfish resources, management practices

“There are places that once held millions and millions of oysters and now they are completely gone,” said Marco Hatch, an environmental sciences professor at Western Washington University and a partner in the Indigenous Aquaculture Collaborative Network that helped organize the…

2023-07-19
Solutions: A professor digs for clams to boost sustainability and the environment

For the better part of the last 20 years, Western Washington University environmental science professor Marco Hatch has had his hands in the muddy shores of the Pacific Northwest and Canada, digging for clams. 

Specifically, Hatch has dedicated his life's work to clam gardens and the…

2023-06-26
WWU’s Marco Hatch Awarded a Coveted 2023 Pew Fellowship in Marine Conservation 2023-03-21
Farming our way to starvation: Unsustainable food systems

Marco Hatch, an associate professor of Environmental Science at Western Washington University and a member of the Samish Indian Nation, works in the Pacific Northwest with 

2023-01-10
Swinomish Tribe builds U.S.’s first modern ‘clam garden,' reviving ancient practice

It takes a butter clam about three years to grow to harvestable size, according to Western Washington University marine ecologist and Samish Nation member Marco Hatch.

“What we're doing here is something that hasn't been done in living memory, which is build a clam…

2022-09-13
How Indigenous Sea Gardens Produced Massive Amounts of Food for Millennia

For those who know how to read them, the signs have long been there. Like the towering mound of 20 million oyster shells all but obscured by the lush greenery of central Florida’s Gulf Coast. Or the arcing lines of wave-weathered stone walls strung along British Columbia’s shores like a necklace…

2022-07-20
Oysters were harvested sustainably for thousands of years by Indigenous peoples, study finds

Indigenous communities had harvested oysters for thousands of years before they were colonized by Europeans, who then oversaw the rapid collapse of these sustainable fisheries, according to …

2022-06-03
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