Brenda Parlee
Brenda L. Parlee is a 'settler' scholar from north-eastern Ontario, Canada. She has a B.A. from the University of Guelph (1995), and an M.E.S. in Environmental Studies from the University of Waterloo (1998). She went on to receive her PhD from the University of Manitoba in Natural Resources and Environmental Management (NREM) in 2005. During 2004-2024, Brenda was a Canada Research Chair (Tier II) at the University of Alberta. She is currently Professor in the Department of Natural Resource Sciences and Bieler Chair in Northern Climate Change and Sustainability at McGill University. Brenda has worked in northern Canada and globally for over 27 years on a range of collaborative and community-based research projects related to community-based monitoring, social-ecological change in the Mackenzie River Basin, wildlife health, Indigenous knowledge of caribou populations, sustainable resource development, the impacts of mining on community wellbeing, biodiversity conservation and cooperative (co-management) of lands and resources in Alberta.
Brenda is the Nominated Principal Investigator of the Ărramăt Project, a 6-year research initiative focused on supporting Indigenous-led research in Canada and globally on the interconnections between biodiversity and health and well-being.