Rising Voices - Collaborative Science for Climate Solutions

Meeting Date: 6/29/2015

- 7/1/2015

Location: Boulder, CO


The Rising Voices 3 workshop will have the theme of Learning and Doing: Education and Adaptation through Diverse Ways of Knowing. The workshop will be held at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado from 29 June – 1 July 2015.

The Rising Voices workshops facilitate cross-cultural approaches for adaptation solutions to climate variability and change. Diverse participants attend the workshops – Indigenous leaders, Indigenous and non-Indigenous environmental experts, students, and scientific professionals, including representatives from tribal, local, state, and federal resource management agencies, academia, tribal colleges, and research organizations.

The Rising Voices 3 workshop will move our shared discussion forward by focusing on topics to support learning about and action for on-the-ground climate adaptation: Scientific-Indigenous partnerships in support of in-situ adaptation and community-led relocation in response to climate variability and change Education curricula and student engagement in support of youth and early-career leadership on climate issues, and Ways to appropriately evaluate the success of scientific-Indigenous collaborations, including considerations of cultural knowledge and protocols.
Registration information: https://www.regonline.com/risingvoices3workshop

Please register by 19 June 2015. Deadline to request funding is 24 April 2015.

Contact: Heather Lazrus - ; Julie Maldonaldo - ; Bob Gough -

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