2020 Summit Schedule

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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

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

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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 share cutting edge watershed function science happening in the East River watershed near Crested Butte, Colorado.

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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. 

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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

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

• Aspen High School
• Crested Butte Community 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