Experience 3: Data & Experience

Perspectives on Prediction in Passamaquoddy Bay with Fred Page & Jack Fife

Fred Page, ocean physicist and close collaborator of Chief Akagi, brings something special to our learning. Fred’s practical yet surprisingly moving account of different knowledge systems as “perspectives” makes way for understanding how Indigenous Knowledge and Western Science fit together like the friendship of Chief and Fred. This perspectival approach is applied in the video below through a friendly but insistent questioning of the self-understanding of science in Oceanography. Jack Fife arrives to speak–not for the fish in this case–but for what the fish are fed by–the nervous system and the energy circuitry of the Bay: Zooplankton