Dr. Nancy Turner

Nancy Jean Turner, School of Environmental Studies, University of Victoria, is an internationally acclaimed pioneer in ethnobotany. Her specialty is the study of plants as known and used by Indigenous Peoples; she is the leading expert on the temperate climate ethnobotany of the First Nations in British Columbia. She has contributed to anthropological and archeological knowledge of native culture, medicine, nutrition, technology, language, and classification. Her collaborative work with Indigenous experts and her documentation of the richness and importance of traditional ecological knowledge make significant contributions to environmental planning and management.