Webinar: A conversation with Alex Echols of the Campbell Foundation. Thursday December 9th, 2021

Please join us for a conversation with Alex Echols of the Campbell Foundation.

The Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment is a family foundation focused on how a vibrant economy provides support for regional economies. Geographic focal areas include the Chesapeake and Atlantic Coastal Bays and Northern California and the San Francisco Bay watershed.

Alex Echols, the Foundation’s program director for agriculture, will discuss how the Foundation sets priorities and what they are. He will provide a few examples of how they work to bring groups together, focusing the use of science in decision making, improving environmental returns on investment (E-ROI), and developing innovations in conservation. He will further discussion how this has worked with nutrient management, particularly with chicken and dairy production.

Engage in the Science of Community and Stakeholder Engagement Workshop Announced

Engage in the Science of Community and Stakeholder Engagement

An engagement workshop series that will produce 1) a special issue of a journal on workshop themes, 2) a collaboratively defined and co-produced research agenda on the “science of engagement,” and 3)  the formation of a new collaborative research network.


This workshop is supported by the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) Advancing scholarship and practice of stakeholder engagement in working landscapes grant no. 2020-01551 project accession no. 1023309 from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture.

Webinar Announcement – The Sugar Creek Method of Research and Farmer Team Building to Achieve Improved Water Quality. Feb 19, 2020 1:00 pm ET

Link to Flyer: Webinar Invitation – Moore 2.19.20

Presenter:
Dr. Richard Moore is Professor Emeritus of the School of  Environment and Natural Resources at The Ohio State University.  He is currently a senior fellow with  the National Council for Science and the Environment in DC.

Abstract:
The webinar will describe the Sugar Creek Method used by a team of social and natural scientists at The Ohio State University who teamed up with three teams of local farmers (one non-Amish German descent, one Amish, and one combined) and the local SWCDs, Ohio EPA, and a cheese factory to improve water quality.

DATE: FEBRUARY 19, 2019 1:00 PM EASTERN TIME (US AND CANADA)

WEBINAR IS FREE BUT REGISTRATION IS
REQUIRED AT: https://psu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_BPYSB5puSw6BYWCpSs2x3A

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

Please Join Us!

This webinar is the sixth in the Water for Ag Engagement Webinar series intended to encourage sharing of scholarship and practitioners’ experience with community-based stakeholder engagement in natural resources.
The Water for Agriculture project brings together, researchers, technical experts, Extension professionals and communities to foster community-led solutions to the water and agriculture issues most important to them.
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT: WALT WHITMER, WEW2@PSU.EDU

Upcoming Webinar: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Collaborative Modeling Methodologies to Address Climate Change in the Mountain Regions

Date: November 20, 2019 1:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Presenter: 

Dr. Loretta Singletary is a Professor with the Department of Economics and University of Nevada Cooperative Extension, and UNR Interdisciplinary Outreach Liaison

Abstract:

This webinar will describe a suite of collaborative modeling (CM) methods employed to assess and enhance the climate resiliency of snow-fed arid lands river systems in the Truckee-Carson River System in the western United States. In addition to reviewing the formative and summative evaluation results, lessons learned from this case study lend additional insight into the perks and pitfalls inherent to interdisciplinary knowledge co-production and emphasize the importance of evaluation to identify and empirically test best practices involving the selection and application of collaborative modeling methods.

Date: November 20, 2019 1:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Webinar is free but registration is required at:

https://psu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_bHZ-as_QTFKxSvxm606Clw

For additional details click here