In this series of posts, I provide an account of my new relationship with the American Geophysical Union (the largest community of earth & space scientists) as an anthropologist who is doing inter-disciplinary research in the Lumbee Tribe after Hurricane Matthew (2016). Thank you to Matthew Thompson for inviting me to write with Anthrodendum. [“Syringes in Rocks” photo credit: Control@ltvsquad.com (2009); “Chumash Firefighters” photo credit: http://www.santaynezchumash.org/fire.html] The concept of the “anthropocene” seems like a way for us (the big collective … Continue reading AGU: Welcome to the “eugenicene”