Rocky Mountains CESU Seminar Series
The Rocky Mountains CESU Seminar Series takes place every spring semester. Presentations highlight the region’s best scientific talent and scholarship to help manage our public resources across social, cultural, economic, political, and environmental arenas.
2024 Online Seminar Series:
Happy 25th Anniversary to the Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Units:Successes in science and scholarship-management partnerships
The Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Units (CESU) Network is a national consortium of 17 biogeographic units comprised of more than 460 federal agencies, tribes, academic institutions, state and local governments, nongovernmental conservation organizations, and other partners working together to support the informed stewardship of natural and cultural resources on federal lands. In celebration of the 25th Anniversary of the CESU Network, this series highlights successful partnerships between subject-matter experts and managers facilitated through the two of the first CESUs established in 1999: North Atlantic Coast and Rock Mountains. The presentations focus on the origins and evolution of the partnerships, provide an overview of their bodies of work, and provide tangible examples of how the science and scholarly work served to inform resource management.
Seminar Recordings:
Video: March 26, 2024: Managing lands across borders for future generations: how the Crown Managers Partnership spans decades and boundaries in the Crown of the Continent Ecosystem
Video: April 10, 2024: Modeling the Combined Effects of Storms and Sea Level Rise in New England to Inform Coastal Management
New England National Parks and surrounding communities are vulnerable to the impacts of storms and sea level rise. This lecture highlights two CESU projects funded by the National Park Service and NOAA, led by an interdisciplinary team from URI, Penn State, NPS, and the Schoodic Institute. We will present examples of modeling results and 3D visualizations that illustrate the combined effects of nor’easters and sea level rise and discuss effective science communication.