Samantha Chisholm Hatfield

Dr. Samantha Chisholm Hatfield is an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians, from the Tututni, Kalapuya, and Chinook Bands, and is also Yurok and Cherokee.
Dr. Chisholm Hatfield has earned an American Sign Language Interpretation certification, a Bachelor of Science in Ethnic Studies with a concentration in Native American studies and a minor in Cultural Anthropology from Oregon State University. She holds her Doctorate in Environmental Sciences from Oregon State University. Her dissertation work has been considered ground-breaking research and heralded for the way she has melded physical and social science, combining empirical research with social science methodology. Among other publications, she is an author for the Northwest chapter in the United States Fifth National Climate Assessment Report, was lead author of the Tribal Cultural Resources chapter for the state of Oregon’s fifth Oregon Climate Assessment Report, was an author for the Sixth National Climate Assessment Report before it was disbanded by the current administration. 

Dr. Chisholm Hatfield's specializations include: Indigenous TEK, Indigenous responses and adaptation due to climate change, assessment of climate change impacts through Traditional Ecological Knowledge perspectives, Traditional First Foods, Traditional Agricultural practices, and Indigenous culture issues. She's worked with Oregon Climate Change Research Institute, and successfully completed a Post-Doctoral Research position with former Northwest Climate Science Center (now CASC). She's spoken on national and international levels for such events as the First Stewards International Symposium, National Congress of American Indians, Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation, Korean Broadcasting System, UNESCO Intangible Culture Heritage Haenyeo commemoration, and TEDx, the Native America Calling podcast, and National Science Foundation’s National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) Sciencepalooza. She's helped coordinate Tribal participation for the Northwest Climate Science Center and USGS Climate Boot Camp workshops. She is a board member on the OSU Native American Longhouse Advisory Board, OSU's President's Commission on Indigenous Affairs, College of Agriculture's Culture, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Taskforce, Ecological Society of America (ESA), Native American Fisheries and Wildlife Society (NAFWS), is one of the advisors for the American Indian Science Engineering Society (AISES) OSU chapter,  OSU Kalapuya Land Planning Committee, Native American Community Advisory Council (NACAC), Indigenous Phenology Network (IPN), and Portland All Nations Canoe Family (PANCF) Indigenous Climate Justice Project, and National Congress of American Indians (NCAI).  

She was formerly been selected as an H.J. Andrews Forest Visiting Scholar in 2016, a 2020 Finalist in the Submission Reading Series BIPOC for the Literary Arts in Portland Oregon, repeated featured blogger for Union of Concerned Scientists, and twice chosen as a Korean Foundation Fellowship Field Research Scholar to study TEK in South Korea. Samantha is a photographer, author in fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, with her recent non-academic book "Cedar Tea" published in 2025. Dr. Chisholm Hatfield is currently learning Tolowa, Korean, continuing her study of Chinook, and actively participates in her traditional cultural practices utilizing TEK.