Apply Today! Science Justice Summer School

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Update | February 22, 2024: The application deadline has been extended to Monday, March 11.

Update | February 15, 2024: This post has been updated to clarify that only graduate students and postdoctoral researchers from the University of Washington, Seattle University and Seattle Pacific University are eligible to apply for the Science Justice Summer School. We apologize for any confusion. 

Are you a grad student or postdoc at the University of Washington, Seattle University or Seattle Pacific University who is interested in applying climate and environmental justice frameworks in your work? Consider applying to the Northwest Climate Resilience Collaborative’s first-ever Science Justice Summer School! This two-week program will dive into a range of justice-related topics through lectures, discussion groups and more. Applications close Monday, March 11 at 11:59 p.m. 

The Science Justice Summer School will run from July 10-24, 2024, on the University of Washington campus in Seattle. The Summer School is open to second-year master’s students, Ph.D. students, recent graduates of master’s or Ph.D. programs (as of Winter or Spring Quarter 2024) and postdoctoral fellows. We welcome students from all disciplines (sciences, social sciences, humanities). The Resilience Collaborative will provide 10-15 stipends of $2,000 to qualified applicants. Students should be living within daily commuting distance of the UW Seattle campus as no housing stipends are available for this year’s program.

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Workshop: Resilience planning for small water systems in Washington

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Virtual Workshop: Resilience planning for small water systems in Washington
Tuesday, March 1, 2022
9 a.m.–noon

This workshop has past. You can access a recording of the workshop or learn more about this project below. 

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In 2021, Washington experienced record heat, precipitation deficits, low streamflows and declining aquifer levels. The fall and winter has brought record rains and flooding that damaged water system infrastructure. Climate change impacts water systems in Washington in a variety of ways. If operators have insufficient information about how their systems are at risk, the reliability and quality of drinking water could be compromised.

Working collaboratively, the Climate Impacts Group at the University of Washington and Department of Health Office of Drinking Water are offering a virtual workshop on March 1, 2022 (9:00 am to 12:00 pm) to demonstrate ways that small-to-medium sized water utilities can use climate data to help assess their risk and plan to build resilience. 

This workshop is intended for water system leaders, certified operators, and water system engineers who know that their communities depend on safe, reliable drinking water — especially during and in the aftermath of extreme weather events.

This three-hour virtual workshop will feature speakers from the Climate Impacts Group, University of Washington, Office of the Washington State Climatologist, and the Department of Health. These sessions will cover climate impacts related to drought, surface water supply, groundwater availability, and water quality, and how this might affect water system resilience. There will also be an interactive session to assist participants with how to consider climate impacts in resilience planning, along with a brief overview of available tools and resources to support water system adaptation. 

Continuing Education Units are available for participating water system operators.

NW CASC Paper Calls for Transforming Science Training to Build Capacity for Actionable Climate Adaptation Science

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How can we mobilize science to support the transformational global action required by climate change? By creating a new type of scientist. A new open-access paper in the journal Environmental Research Letters emphasizes the need for science training that builds collaborative science skills at different career stages to develop a strong community of practice around actionable climate science. The paper, Building capacity for societally engaged climate science by transforming science training (Rozance et al. 2020), draws from the experiences at the University of Washington Climate Impacts Group, Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center and the University of Arizona Climate Assessment for the Southwest, to offer a perspective on a path for the academy to better develop, train and support scientists to conduct societally-relevant research.

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