Faculty Profile
Madeline L Nyblade

Assistant Professor
Department of Environmental Studies
235 Marshall Hall
Education
PhD, Earth and Environmental Science, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
BS, Geoscience, Penn State University
Courses
EST 140: Introduction to Native Peoples, Lands, and Cultures (Fall and Spring semester)
EST 797: Community Based Participatory Research (Fall semester)
Publications
Nyblade, M., Larkin, D.J., Vogt, D. et al. Climate change contributes to the decline in off-reservation tribal harvest availability in the Great Lakes region. Commun Earth Environ 6, 288 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02233-0
Leonard, K., C. Avery, J. Manitowabi, M. Nyblade, N. D. Smiles, T.R. Hedman, S. Smith, C. Toulouse. D. David-Chavez. (2025). Chapter 3: Water Justice. The Status of Tribes and Climate Change. Volume 2. Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals.
Panek, B., K. James, N. M. Montano, J. Graveen, M. Nyblade. (2025). Chapter 8: Indigenous Ways of Not Knowing. The Status of Tribes and Climate Change. Volume 2. Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals.
Nyblade, M., Graveen, W., Montano, M., Panek, B., & King, H. J. (2023). Tribal-University Partnership Methodology for Re-searching with Manoomin/Psin (Ojibwe/Dakota for Wild Rice). In E. Sumida Huaman & N. Martin (Eds.), Indigenous research design: Transnational perspectives in practice. Canadian Scholars and Women’s Press.
Nyblade, M., & McDonald, J. (2021). Recognizing Geology’s Colonial History for Better Policy Today. Eos 102. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1029/2021EO162069
Matson, L., Ng, G.-H. C., Dockry, M., King, H. J., Nyblade, M., Bellcourt, M., Bunting, P., Chapman, E., Davenport, M., Graveen, W., Hedin, K., Howes, T., Johnson Sr, J., Kesner, S., Kojola, E., LaBine, R., Larkin, D., Myrbo, A., Porter, M., … Vogt, D. J. (2021). Transforming research and relationships through collaborative tribal-university partnerships on manoomin (wild rice). Environmental Science and Policy.
Current Graduate Advisees
Abigail Guinan
azguinan@syr.edu
- Degree Sought: MS
- Graduate Advisor(s): Nyblade
- Area of Study: Environmental Science
Graduate Research Topic
Management and restoration of novel shrubland ecosystems following agricultural abandonment
Aaron Hagman
aahagman@syr.edu
- Degree Sought: MS
- Graduate Advisor(s): Mcgee and Nyblade
- Area of Study: Environmental & Forest Biology
Jade Haumann
jhaumann@syr.edu
- Degree Sought: MS
- Graduate Advisor(s): Nyblade
- Area of Study: Environmental Science
About me
Graduate Research Topic
Nevaeh Marshall
nemarsha@syr.edu
- Degree Sought: MS
- Graduate Advisor(s): Nyblade and Kayira
- Area of Study: Environmental Science