Tag archives for Jon Waterhouse
Connecting Indigenous People All Around the World
Posted by Jon Waterhouse of National Geographic Fellows Program in Explorers Journal on May 22, 2013 
All around the world, indigenous cultures hold knowledge of inestimable value for understanding how to relate to the natural world. Jon Waterhouse has a plan for linking them all together.
Paddling 600 Miles Through Alaska
Posted by Jon Waterhouse of National Geographic Fellows Program in Explorers Journal on September 7, 2012 
Paddling 600 miles through Alaska from Northway to the village of Tanana, explorer Jon Waterhouse and his team have been on a mission to study the river and learn from its native inhabitants.
Canoeing Alaska’s Tanana River
Posted by Jon Waterhouse of National Geographic Fellows Program in Explorers Journal on July 17, 2012 
Jon Waterhouse’s latest Healing Journey takes him to eastern Alaska to record traditional knowledge and scientific data along the Tanana River, a main tributary of the Yukon.
South Sudan, the world’s newest country, is also a country with the greatest of needs. Now that independence has been achieved, the real work begins. Fortunately, through the kindness of several determined Alaskans, the work is being helped along, slowly but steadily.
Drumbeats Echo Along the Yukon as The Healing Journey Arrives in Ruby, Alaska
Posted by Andrew Howley of NG Staff on September 23, 2011 
Children, adults, and Elders of more than 70 tribes and First Nations along the Yukon River have gathered to celebrate their culture, educate the new generation, and tackle difficult issues around nuclear power, dwindling salmon, and water rights. NG Fellow Jon Waterhouse reports as part of his 2011 Healing Journey.
The Healing Journey Continues…
Posted by Andrew Howley of NG Staff on August 18, 2011 
NG Fellow Jon Waterhouse’s Healing Journey brings him and his team along the Yukon River to meet people living more closely connected to nature, and to inspire kids to learn those ways and keep them alive, all while taking hi-tech scientific readings on the health of the river. Follow his journey here on Nat Geo NewsWatch.
Trading Rush Hour for the River
Posted by Andrew Howley of NG Staff on August 10, 2011 Two visitors join NG Fellow Jon Waterhouse’s “Healing Journey” and experience the life of people along the Yukon River as few outsiders do. See how they were inspired and refreshed by the sights, smells, and human relationships in the region.
Healing Journey 2011: Back to Alaska
Posted by Andrew Howley of NG Staff on July 26, 2011 
Jon Waterhouse was told by native elders and tribal leaders around the Yukon watershed to “go out, take the pulse of the river.” Four years later, he returns to do more hard science and cultural renewal.
Jon Waterhouse’s Healing Journey: Sudan
Posted by Ford Cochran on January 4, 2011 In a war-ravaged world that is beyond remote lurks an unseen killer named Kala-azar. National Geographic Education Fellow Jon Waterhouse shares a story of Old Fangak. By Jon Waterhouse In a very few days–on January 9, 2011–the people of southern Sudan will vote on a referendum for independence as part of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement…
Healing Journey: Shrimp Sniffing Certificates
Posted by Ford Cochran on December 10, 2010 National Geographic Education Fellow Jon Waterhouse continues his chronicle of the Gulf oil spill’s aftermath from Grand Isle on the Louisiana coast. By Jon Waterhouse When last I wrote, my traveling companions and I were speaking with Karen Hopkins and Dean Blanchard, two residents of Grand Isle, Louisiana, whose lives and community have been dramatically…
Healing Journey: A Costly Coastal Legacy for the Gulf of Mexico
Posted by Ford Cochran on November 18, 2010 National Geographic Education Fellow Jon Waterhouse writes from Louisiana’s Gulf Coast that, for some residents who rely on marine life for a living, reports that we’re past the worst of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill’s consequences don’t ring true. By Jon Waterhouse All is not right with the world–not in Louisiana, at least. As the…
Healing Journey Goes to the Gulf
Posted by Ford Cochran on November 11, 2010 National Geographic Education Fellows Jon Waterhouse and John Francis will gather firsthand accounts of life on the Louisiana coast long after Hurricane Katrina and soon after the Deepwater Horizon spill. Wherever you live, ideas you send their way over the next week could help shape environmental policy across the North American continent. By Jon Waterhouse…
Healing Journey: On to Anvik
Posted by Ford Cochran on July 18, 2010 National Geographic grantee and contributor Jon Waterhouse, an avid paddler and Alaska Region Director of the Yukon River Inter-Tribal Watershed Council, is leading the 2010 Healing Journey down the Koyukuk River from Coldfoot to Koyukuk, Alaska. Along the way, he’s calling from the field via satellite phone to share stories with BlogWild readers of the…
Healing Journey: Huslia on the Koyukuk
Posted by Ford Cochran on July 13, 2010 National Geographic grantee and contributor Jon Waterhouse, an avid paddler and Alaska Region Director of the Yukon River Inter-Tribal Watershed Council, is leading the 2010 Healing Journey down the Koyukuk River from Coldfoot to Koyukuk, Alaska. Along the way, he’s calling from the field via satellite phone to share stories with BlogWild readers of the…
Healing Journey: Midnight Arctic Afternoon
Posted by Ford Cochran on July 3, 2010 National Geographic grantee and contributor Jon Waterhouse, an avid paddler and Alaska Region Director of the Yukon River Inter-Tribal Watershed Council, is leading the 2010 Healing Journey down the Koyukuk River from Coldfoot to Koyukuk, Alaska. Along the way, he’s calling from the field via satellite phone to share stories with BlogWild readers of the…
Scorched in a ‘Frozen Wasteland’
Posted by Ford Cochran on July 1, 2010 National Geographic grantee and contributor Jon Waterhouse, an avid paddler and Alaska Region Director of the Yukon River Inter-Tribal Watershed Council, is leading the 2010 Healing Journey down the Koyukuk River from Coldfoot to Koyukuk, Alaska. Along the way, he’s calling from the field via satellite phone to share stories with BlogWild readers of the…
Scorched in a ‘Frozen Wasteland’
Posted by Ford Cochran on July 1, 2010 National Geographic grantee and contributor Jon Waterhouse, an avid paddler and Alaska Region Director of the Yukon River Inter-Tribal Watershed Council, is leading the 2010 Healing Journey down the Koyukuk River from Coldfoot to Koyukuk, Alaska. Along the way, he’s calling from the field via satellite phone to share stories with BlogWild readers of the…
Healing Journey: Trail of the Frozen Frogs
Posted by Ford Cochran on June 29, 2010 National Geographic grantee and contributor Jon Waterhouse, an avid paddler and Alaska Region Director of the Yukon River Inter-Tribal Watershed Council, is leading the 2010 Healing Journey down the Koyukuk River from Coldfoot to Koyukuk, Alaska. Along the way, he’s calling from the field via satellite phone to share stories with BlogWild readers of the…
Phone Calls From the Healing Journey
Posted by Ford Cochran on June 28, 2010 National Geographic grantee and contributor Jon Waterhouse, an avid paddler and Alaska Region Director of the Yukon River Inter-Tribal Watershed Council, is leading the 2010 Healing Journey down the Koyukuk River from Coldfoot to Koyukuk, Alaska. Along the way, he’s calling from the field via satellite phone to share stories with BlogWild readers of the…
