Grassroots Institute Global Network and Grassroots Journal are facilitating a global, hybrid summer field school from 10-19 September, 2022. Below you will find information about the goals, scope, and faculties of the event and if you are interested there is a link below to their registration pages! GOAL OF FSc MER 2023 Building perspectives and [...]
“We can’t rely on quitting fossil fuels alone to fix the climate and environmental justice crises that we face.” We need another key part of the defense: standing forests. JOIN US on October 6th at 5pm ET OR October 8th at 12pm ET for a one of a kind webinar and expert panel that will [...]
Thinking Mountains 2018 will bring researchers, students, and teachers from across the scholarly disciplines into dialogue with activists, artists, Indigenous leaders, and community members, all of whom share a commitment to global mountain sustainability, and to the betterment of mountain peoples, places, and activities. This will be the third interdisciplinary Thinking Mountains gathering. Thinking Mountains [...]
Please join us for this year’s MtnClim meeting at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory in Gothic, Colorado, Monday, September 17 to Friday, September 21, 2018. The 2018 Mountain Climate Conference will continue the tradition of excellence by working at the intersection of climate and a host of other scientific disciplines including hydrology, ecology, and glaciology. [...]
Sixty leaders of community-based collaborative conservation gathered in an interactive workshop hosted by the Center for Collaborative Conservation at Colorado State University in March 2018. Workshop participants represented diverse geographies, conservation and livelihood issues, communities, scales and entities across the seven state Rocky Mountain Region. The purpose of the workshop was to explore the need [...]
By Jessica Thorn. From 23-27th April, 2017, Mountain Sentinels hosted our third international workshop near the lovely Bend, Oregon, surrounded by the beautiful Mount Washington, Tumalo State Park, Three Sisters mountains, Santiam Pass and Metolius Spring. The meeting brought together 22 researchers representing 19 research, university, state, and educational institutions. We exchanged a wealth of [...]
Our workshop on “Participatory Modeling of Mountain Social-Ecological Systems” at the Rock Springs Resort, Bend, Oregon has begun! The workshop is led by Anne Nolin, Jessica Thorn, Julia Klein, Robin Reid, & Catherine Tucker. The broader objectives this workshop are to explore and evaluate transdisciplinary modeling frameworks for mountains, to identify relevant questions and scenarios [...]
We will explore whether different mountain contexts are associated with specific best practices and will analyze the reasons for similarity, including objective ones (biophysical and social context) as well has historical/cultural ones (i.e. legacies in political systems, in systems of knowledge production). We will also address the hypothesis that while the former are likely to [...]
An International Synthesis and Grant-Writing Workshop
Through a series of workshops and synthesis activities, Julia Klein, Assistant Professor at Colorado State University, Anne Nolin, Associate Professor at Oregon State University, and Greg Greenwood, Executive Director of the Mountain Research Institute (MRI) in Bern, Switzerland, brought together experts on mountain hydrology, ecosystem science, human ecology and environmental governance; decision makers in policy [...]
Mountains 2016 is an international event aiming to promote sustainable development in mountains, based on science, knowledge, and innovation. Mountains 2016 will combine two different events: the X European Mountain Convention and the I International Conference on Research for Sustainable Development in Mountain Regions. By bringing together the European mountain community and a broader international community of [...]