2020 Summit Schedule

Friday, December 11, 2020
9:00 am-12:00 pm MST
Virtually from your computer
Based from the Program's desk in the Third Street Center, Carbondale, Colorado

Registration is Closed - inquire with the director for last minute registration, as there may still be capacity for you to join.

​Upper Colorado River Basin high school and college students are encouraged to attend as well as community leaders and policy makers

---

Cutting Edge Watershed Science:
​Rocky Mountain Water: the Stories of Natural, Impacted, and Managed Water in the American West

Kenneth Hurst Williams Ph.D., Geological Scientist and Program Lead, Environmental Remediation and Water Resources at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, will be discussing issues that impact the future ability of watersheds in the Upper Colorado River basin — and in the Elk Mountains in particular — to provide ample water and water of high quality to a wide variety of downstream users including ranchers and local communities.  He will focus on research activities he and his research team are undertaking near the town of Crested Butte that seek to understand how mountains will retain and release water, nutrients, and metals in the face of coming climate disturbance, such as drought and forest mortality.  He will focus on three interrelated water “themes” that include natural water, impacted water, and managed water.

Friday, Dec. 11, 2020, 9:15 am MST - watch on facebook live

---

Climate Change, Rivers and the Economy 

Molly D. Mugglestone, Director of Communications and Colorado Policy for Business for Water Stewardship will talk about how climate change and drought are affecting the Colorado River Basin and how these things threaten our economy, quality of life and river health. Molly is based at her remote office in Gunnison, Colorado. 

Friday, Dec. 11, 2020, 11:20 am MST - watch on facebook live

---

Decision makers, elected officials, and water managers who plan to attend and listen to youth leaders:

• Colorado Water Conservation Board
• Pitkin County Healthy Rivers board members​
• Upper Gunnison River Water Conservancy District
• Aurora Water
• Colorado Springs Water Utilities
• City of Glenwood Springs

Students from each of these schools are committed to participating and presenting calls to action (so far)

• Aspen High School
• Gunnison High School
• Hotchkiss High School
• Glenwood Springs High School
• Durango High School
• Roaring Fork High School

Summit Schedule

Student Call-to-Action Presentations to be posted here as they get submitted

2020 Financial Sponsors

2020 Program Partners