Event recap: Youth Day and the 2017 Tribal Summit
/1 Comment/in Events, News, Project update /by Kelsey FitzgeraldUpcoming Event: Youth Day at the Desert Research Institute
/16 Comments/in Events /by Kelsey FitzgeraldNative Waters on Arid Lands is pleased to announce that this year’s Tribal Summit will include Youth Day, a day in which tribal youth are invited to the Desert Research Institute in Reno, Nev. to participate in hands-on science activities with DRI researchers and learn about careers in the sciences. Youth Day will take place on November 13, 2017, from 10am to 2:30pm.
Youth Day Agenda
- Session 1: Truckee Meadows land, water and people – A hike with DRI experts to learn about how land, water and people have shaped the Truckee Meadows (with Amanda Keen-Zebert and Teresa Wriston)
- Session 2: Climate – “The Real Deal” – Interactive session of climate Q&A debunking myths and legends about climate change, and decoding climate information (with Christine Albano, Dan McEvoy and Tamara Wall)
- Lunch (provided) – STEM pipeline discussion. Roundtable discussion of opportunities after high school (with Steven Chischilly, Virgil DuPuis, Helen Fillmore)
- Session 3: Playing with your food – Experiences from the Pueblo Farming Project and extracting DNA from a banana (with Kyle Bocinsky, Zoe Harrold and Lucas Bishop)
- Session 4: Force of Water – Hands-on activities related to flooding and adaptation from the Force of Water Green Box (with Science Alive staff Mackenzie Peterson and Leah Madison)
Youth Day will be held at the Desert Research Institute, 2215 Raggio Parkway, Reno. For more information about this event, please contact Meghan Collins at [email protected].
Arizona Climate Resilience Workshops: Sept 12 & 14, 2017
/in Events /by Kelsey FitzgeraldNative Waters on Arid Lands will hold climate resilience workshops on September 12, 2017 at Dine College (Tsaile, AZ) and on September 14, 2017 at the Colorado River Indian Tribes reservation (Parker, AZ). The purpose of these workshops is to make climate data available and accessible to tribal partners to inform discussions about the impacts to traditional and production livestock and crop agriculture from warming temperatures and extreme precipitation events and options to enhance the climate resiliency of tribal agriculture.
The workshop agenda is as follows (Download PDF):
Episode 7: Climate Futures for the Southwest with Dr. Michael Dettinger
/1 Comment/in Podcast /by Kelsey FitzgeraldRegistration open for Native Waters on Arid Lands 2017 Tribal Summit
/1 Comment/in Events /by Kelsey FitzgeraldEpisode 6: Tribal Extension Programs with Trent Teegerstrom
/1 Comment/in Podcast /by Kelsey FitzgeraldEpisode 5: Economically Sustainable Agriculture with Dr. Kynda Curtis
/1 Comment/in Podcast /by Kelsey FitzgeraldAbout
The Native Waters on Arid Lands project seeks to enhance the climate resiliency of agriculture on American Indian lands of the Great Basin and Southwest by building the capacity within tribal communities to develop and implement reservation-wide plans, policies, and practices to support sustainable agriculture and water management.
Business Hours
Our support Hotline is available 24 Hours a day: (555) 343 456 7891
- Monday-Friday: 9am to 5pm
- Saturday: 10am to 2pm
- Sunday: Closed
Latest News
- Rainwater Harvesting on the Hualapai Reservation: New Research by Brianda Hernandez RosalesAugust 1, 2022 - 10:41 pm
- Maureen McCarthy/DRINew USDA Grant to Support Climate Resilience Planning in Indian CountryJanuary 13, 2022 - 5:59 pm
- Presentations from FALCON Conference now availableDecember 14, 2021 - 8:13 pm