Fall 2024 Lightning Talks: Partnering with Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Units (CESUs)

Please join us for a virtual Lightning Talks event on Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Units (CESU). CESUs function as “virtual” organizations, linking federal agencies and institutions to increase access to expertise and facilities. At this Lightning Talk, speakers will present on how they connected and developed partnerships with federal agencies through the CESU and the projects that they led under the CESU mechanism. Speakers will each have 5 minutes for their presentations followed by 3 minutes for Q&A. After all presentations have finished, the audience will have the opportunity to join breakout rooms with their chosen speaker(s) to ask more questions about their projects. We look forward to having you join us!

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Speaker information:

• Bob H. Reinhardt
  Associate Professor and Boise State Representative to the Rocky Mountain-CESU
  Department of History and School of the Environment
  Title: Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Units: Mutual Benefits for Federal Agencies and Boise State Faculty
• Moji Sadegh
  Associate Professor
  Department of Civil Engineering
  Title: Evolving Western Wildfires and Their Impacts
• Pei-Lin Yu
  Affiliate Professor and Fulbright Senior Research Fellow; Tribal Liaison, Corps of Engineers, Walla Walla District
  Department of Anthropology
  Title: CESUs, National Parks, and Climate Change in the American Southwest
• Jared L Talley,
  Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies
  School of Public Service
  Title: Salmon Recovery in Idaho: It’s a Dam(n) People Issue
• Jim McNamara
  Professor
  Department of Geosciences
  Title: Hydrologic Implications of a Declining Mountain Snowpack
• Marie-Anne de Graaff
  Associate Dean of Research, Creative Activity and Graduate Education, COAS and Professor
  Department of Biological Sciences
  Title: Utilizing CESU to Build Community and Foster Long-Term Research Collaborations with Local Agencies