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Faculty News: Fall 2012

Brad Kasberg: Joanna Jackson Goldman Memorial Prize Winner 2011-2012

Brad KasbergSpecial congratulations go to recent graduate Brad Kasberg, the 2012 winner of the Joanna Jackson Goldman Memorial Prize.  One of the largest prizes of its kind, the Goldman Prize is made possible through the generous donation by Dr. Eric Goldman in honor of his wife, Joanna (a 1943 Miami graduate). It offers one graduating Miami student the opportunity to pursue his or her own intensive research or creative project.

Brad is using the prize to collaborate with the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma to generate a sustainable land use plan designed to address the ecological, cultural and economic needs of the tribe.  Brad is a member of the Miami Nation of Indiana and a geography and anthropology major.  According to him, “The Miami tribe has a long history of forced migration from our
traditional homeland followed by environmental exploitation and widespread contamination in our new homeland in northeastern Oklahoma.”

The Miami tribal land, located in Ottawa County, Okla., is adjacent to the Tar Creek Environmental Protection Agency Superfund site. Tar Creek was one of the nation’s first Superfund sites, listed in 1983. Zinc and lead mining, prevalent in the area from the 1900s through 1970, resulted in huge piles of waste mine tailings, called chat, near the Miami tribe’s crop lands, and widespread contamination throughout the watershed.

For his year-long project, he plans to conduct an analysis of zinc, lead and cadmium contamination of soil and water on Miami tribal land and map the widespread contamination of the tribal land; cultivate plants culturally significant to the tribe and analyze them for zinc, lead and cadmium contamination; and
develop a sustainable land use plan for the tribe. Along with tribal leaders, Brad will work with Professors Jason Rech and Jonathan Levy as well as Daryl Baldwin, director of the Myaamia Project, to carry out his work.

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