Foster, Laura

The potential of Arctica islandica, a long lived marine bivalve with a lifespan of over 300 years, to reconstruct a high resolution (sub-annual) climate record is explored in this thesis. Fluctuations in trace element and isotopic data from live-collected specimens from Irvine B…

This dissertation examines the patenting of biological materials derived from Indigenous San peoples' knowledge of <i>Hoodia gordonii </i> in Southern Africa. Contributing to feminist science studies, transnational feminisms, and feminist socio-legal studies, this research asks …