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 how they connected and developed partnerships with federal agencies through the CESU and the projects 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.
The speakers and topics at this event will be:
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