User:Wikistu03/Margaret Hiza Redsteer

Margaret Hiza Redsteer is a geomorphologist and professor at the University of Washington Bothell. She previously worked as a Research Scientist for the U.S Department of the Interior and the U.S Geological Survey. Redsteer's main research focuses on fixing the effects of climate change in the Navajo region by incorporating the knowledge of Native American elders in combination with scientific studies and procedures.

Early Life and Education
Redsteer was raised in Story, Wyoming. Redsteer is of Crow Nation descent on her father's side and has a white mother. Redsteer moved to Colorado to become a silversmith, being trained to created Native American homemade jewelry. In Colorado, Redsteer met and married Robert Redsteer, a Navajo man with the dream of moving south to Robert's home in the Navajo Reservation.

In the 1986, Redsteer, her husband, and three small children, were forced to relocate to Flagstaff, AZ due to the 1974 Navajo Hopi Land Settlement Act. . With only a high school diploma, job opportunities were limited in Flagstaff for Redsteer. However, while Redsteer and her family lived on the Navajo Reservation, she noticed the poor quality and limited access to water available those living on the reservation. After relocating to Flagstaff with her family, Redsteer decided to continue her education and study environmental science.

In Flagstaff, Redsteer began to study geology at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. By the time Redsteer finished her degree at Northern Arizona University, Redsteer and her husband separated. As a single-mother, Redsteer continued pursuing her education in graduate school. After winning a National Science Foundation Fellowship, Redsteer studied sedimentology at Montana State University, where she earned her master's degree in 1983. Redsteer's master's research in Yellowstone was inspired by David Love, a Woiming geologist who, who spent much of his career studying volcanic rocks in the area.

After 14 years, she gained a Ph.D in geochemistry from Oregon State University, researching volcanic rocks. Redsteer's graduate advisor, Anita Grunder, was a major inspiration for her due to providing an example of a good work-like balance for Redsteer. She became a member of the U.S Geological Survey in the early 2000's. She studied volcanic deposits, but soon switched to studying climate change.

Career
Redsteer became a member of the U.S Geological Survey in the early 2000's. She studied volcanic deposits, but soon switched to studying climate change. is a female scientist who contributed to the conservation movement in the twentieth century. Her career involves working as a research scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey. Redsteer's research includes addressing water scarcity through different scientific methods. Her work as a research scientist faced the gender norm expectations of men and women of her time. Although academia remains a male-dominated profession, female scientists like Redsteer inspired girls to pursue science.

Redsteer studies the effects of climate change on Native American territory, specifically Navajo and Hopi land as well as the Crow reservation where she was born. In addition to scientific procedures, Redsteer's work also includes the eye-witness accounts of Indigenous natives to the changes brought by climate change.

On April 12th, 2023 and April 13th 2023, Redsteer has given two lectures at Harvard College. In these lectures, she addressed the need for greater focus on how climate change affects marginalized communities.