Conferences & Events for Early August
AUGUST 3rd – 5th, 2016: The Annual San Juan Mining and Reclamation Conference. This conference is designed to educate the public and other stakeholders on the science and policy of mining, mine lands remediation, and water quality as it relates to non-point source pollution, improving mining practices, and addressing water quality impairments through workshops, field tours, and presentations. This year’s conference is scheduled to be held in Durango and Silverton, Colorado. For more information click HERE.
AUGUST 6th, 2016: Mountain Area Land Trust’s (MALT) 14th Annual "A Night in the Park!" Celebrating Land and Water Conservation. Catered dinner from Fresh Tracks Catering, margaritas by Coyote Goldand music with Dakota Blonde. For more information and to purchase tickets visit the MALT website.
AUGUST 24th - 26th, 2016: The Colorado Water Congress Summer Conference and Membership Meeting. The 2016 conference will be held at the Sheraton Steamboat Resort. A don't miss event for those who wish to stay informed about water issues in Colorado while engaging in numerous professional development activities. Registration is now open.
AUGUST 24th, 2016: The Colorado Corn Administrative Committee will host a Tour of Research Projects in Fort Collins, beginning at 5 p.m. at the new CoBank Center for Agricultural Education. From there, the group will trek to various sites out at Colorado State University's Agricultural Research, Development and Education Center (ARDEC). Dinner will be provided. They ask those who are wanting to attend to RSVP before Aug. 17 by calling (970) 351-8201, or by sending an email to Ann Cross at across@coloradocorn.com. CCAC will host a second tour on Oct. 5 in Wray to tour research projects in that area. For more information visit their website at www.coloradocorn.com.
AUGUST 27th, 2016: The Tamarisk Coalition’s 3rd Annual Raft the River. Join them and local river experts for a fun, educational float trip and dinner along the Colorado River in Fruita, Colorado from 1:00 pm - 6:30 pm. This one-day float trip will provide you with a “behind the scenes” look at the work being done to rejuvenate the treasured riparian (riverside) area in the Grand Valley. Talk with local river experts and explore past, current, and future riverside restoration sites and reclaimed wildlife areas at a few stops along the river. Discussions may also include the tamarisk beetle, fish, and other wildlife. After the float, you will be greeted with an acoustic set from Jack+Jill, delicious dishes donated from local Grand Valley restaurants, drinks, and prizes. For more information visit www.tamariskcoalition.org.
SEPTEMBER 11th – 14th, 2016: Rocky Mountain Water Environment Association’s 2016 RMSAWWA/RMWEA Joint Annual Conference in Keystone, Colorado. This conference focuses on providing relevant, accurate information and insight into the processes used during water studies, design, construction, and operation. This year they plan to address treatment, collection & distribution, water reuse, managing water resources, energy management, watershed management, laboratory, stormwater, small systems, alternative delivery, instrumentation/controls, environmental challenges, conservation, regulations, water quality, administrative/managerial challenges, construction, and operations. For more information and to register go to www.rmwea.org.
SEPTEMBER 12th – 14th, 2016: The Colorado Open Space Alliance (COSA) Annual Conference. COSA is a statewide organization of publicly funded local and regional open space programs, working cooperatively to share information, create public awareness and foster partnerships needed to protect and preserve the special places of Colorado. The 2016 conference will be in Estes Park at the Rocky Mountain Park Inn. This year's theme "Navigating Change" is a nod to the many variables our organizations wrestle with, including organizational change, climate change, and changing demographics, to name a few. For more information and to register visit the COSA website, www.coloradoopenspace.org.
SEPTEMBER 16th, 2016: The Greenway Foundation Blue Moon After Party on the Bridge will be held on the Historic 19th Street Bridge, one night after The Greenway Foundation's annual, Noble Energy Gala on the Bridge. The 2016 event featuring eats, cocktails, and amazing live music - all included in the ticket price! Proceeds from the Blue Moon After Party on the Bridge support The Greenway Foundation's longstanding efforts to protect and enhance the South Platte River and its tributaries, and to engage the Metro Denver community with their river through educational programming and free cultural events. For information and tickets click HERE.
SEPTEMBER 17th, 2016: 8th Annual Clear Creek Watershed Festival with the Clear Creek Watershed Foundation and Colorado State University Extension | Clear Creek County. Discover what's in your watershed! This is a hands-on learning experience. Start at the Festival Passport Check-in and begin your journey visiting with 25+ environmental stations. This festival features live music, climbing tower, snowmaking, goldpanning, fishing, fly-tying and a celebrity appearance with Woodsy Owl of the U.S. Forest Service. After visiting all of the passport stations you receive a free lunch. For more information visit www.clearcreekwater.org.
SEPTEMBER 22nd, 2016: Careers in Natural Resources Summit. Your organization will learn how to develop training modules tailored for your participants to build pathways to careers in natural resources. Attending organizations will receive a toolkit including hard copies of the career manual, “A How-To Guide for Pursuing a Career in Natural Resources” and digital resources including training activities, presentations, and more! This event is FREE and lunch will be provided due to support from Colorado State Forest Service, Colorado Department of Natural Resources, Colorado Parks & Wildlife, Bureau of Land Management, and US Forest Service. Registration will open this summer. For more information go to the Colorado Youth Corps Association.
SEPTEMBER 23rd - 25th, 2016: Colorado Annual Student Water Field Conference hosted by Colorado Mesa University, Grand Junction, Colo. Itinerary includes dinner at Fruita State Park, a tour of river restoration and diversions along Colorado River’s Riverfront Trail in Grand Junction, followed by a farm tour and a farm dinner in the lower Grand Valley. Students work in groups to develop plans for sharing what they have learned when they return home. For additional information, contact Gigi Richard at: 970.248.1689, grichard@coloradomesa.edu.
SEPTEMBER 25th – 28th, 2016: Geological Society of America (GSA) 2016 meeting to be held in Denver. GSA’s mission includes: Scientific Research, Scientific Communication, Geologic Time, Technological Innovation, Geologic Hazards, Sustainability, and Natural Resources. Registration, technical programs, poster sessions, and exhibits will be held at the Colorado Convention Center. GSA Field Trips will also depart from the Colorado Convention Center. The Hyatt Regency Denver at CCC is the headquarter hotel where the majority of non-technical events will be held. Meeting abstracts are due July 12. For more information click HERE.
SEPTEMBER 29th, 2016: The Institute for Environmental Solutions (IES) will host the quarterly Consortium for Research and Education on Emerging Contaminants (CREEC) meeting in Denver. The meeting will focus on behavior change methods and strategies to prevent water contamination from contaminants of emerging concern (CECs). At this meeting, IES will provide an introduction to community-oriented preventive strategies for confronting chemical contaminants at their sources, and the natural and social science foundations on which these strategies are built. They will present IES’s proposed 2016 Save Our Water Initiative project. For more information go to creec.net.
OCTOBER 7th, 2016: 2016 West Slope Environmental Education Conference - Bringing Colorado's EE Plan to Life. This conference will be held from 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. at the Ridgway State Park Group Event Facility, located in Pa-Co-Chu-Puk area of the park. Join environmental education (EE) providers and supporters from agencies, nonprofits, schools, and environmental, nature, conservation fields for an engaging summit. Learn more about the Colorado Environmental Education Plan, network and share ideas, and find inspiration from innovative EE leaders. For more information and registration go to www.caee.org.
OCTOBER 11th - 13th, 2016: Sustaining Colorado Watersheds Conference: A River Runs Out of It: Building Strong Upstream Communities. The Colorado Watershed Assembly in partnership with the Colorado Foundation for Water Education and the Colorado Riparian Association hosts this conference focused on cooperation and collaboration throughout Colorado in natural resource conservation, protection, and enhancement. Registration Opens July 2016! Visit our Conference Page for more information.
NOVEMBER 2nd & 3rd, 2016: The Sixth Annual Upper Colorado River Basin Forum will be held at Colorado Mesa University in Grand Junction. The theme is"Complex Systems in Flux: Changing Relationships between Water, People and the Environment." They have a CALL FOR ABSTRACTS on presentation proposals from water managers, policy makers, scholars and other stakeholders. The call for abstracts is available here.
Announcements for Late July
The Colorado Department of Agriculture has issued a Pest Bulletin on the Emerald ash borer which has now been detected in the City of Longmont.
The Colorado Water Conservation Board, Department of Natural Resources next Water Availability Task Force meeting will be held on TUESDAY, July 19, 2016 from 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm at the Colorado Parks & Wildlife Headquarters, 6060 Broadway, Denver in the Red Fox Room.
The Colorado Department of Agriculture has issued a Pest Bulletin on the Emerald ash borer which has now been detected in the City of Longmont. Boulder County surveys for emerald ash borer (EAB)-infested ash trees continue for the 2016 season. The entire City of Boulder is presumed infested. EAB has been detected in one location in Longmont, but many other trees in the city are likely already infested and we anticipate other detections in the near future. Adult emerald ash borers (beetles) are flying in Boulder and Longmont. First sign of adults was May 23 in Boulder. The adult flight period is estimated to last until mid -to late August with a peak in early to mid -June. For the latest information, visit their website at www.eabcolorado.com.
Brown and Caldwell’s has a new web news series that brings together water leaders from around the country to talk about how we can all advance One Water thinking to secure water for generations to come. By 2030, it will take an estimated $384 billion to maintain the nation's drinking water infrastructure, and it won't be easy getting there. Projects often take too long to complete and regularly suffer from cost overruns. But a growing number of water and wastewater utilities are using the design-build project delivery method to overcome cost challenges and scheduling problems. In this first of a multipart series, Gus Hrncir explains why more and more water utilities are making the switch.
Water Alternatives, an interdiciplinary journal on water, politics and development has announced a Call for Papers: The (Re)turn to Infrastructure for Water Management. With a few obvious exceptions, including the construction of the world’s largest dam in China, water management around the world in the 1990s and 2000s seemed largely focused on the demand-side. More recently, however, we have begun to see a significant number of large inter-basin water transfer projects, massive dams, desalination plants, sea walls, tidal barriers and other constructions under development in Asia, Africa, Europe, and South America. Taken together, the resurgence of these types of concrete-heavy forms of water management suggest a turn back to the high-modernist reliance on big infrastructure as a strategy for addressing a range of water-related issues, including regional scarcity, sea-level rise, and flooding. The papers in this special issue will explore the questions of whether and why we are seeing a return to a 20th century water management paradigm centered on big infrastructure and, often, supply-side management principles, and what this (re)turn to big infrastructure tells us about the political-economic forces driving water management today. Deadline for submission of abstracts is July 20th, 2016. For more information go to www.water-alternatives.org.
Job Announcements for Late July
Trout Unlimited (TU) is hiring a Mine Restoration Project Manager in their Western Water and Habitat Program to facilitate and execute abandoned mine restoration and stream restoration projects in watersheds across Colorado.
Trout Unlimited (TU) is hiring a Mine Restoration Project Manager in their Western Water and Habitat Program to facilitate and execute abandoned mine restoration and stream restoration projects in watersheds across Colorado. This project manager will take projects from start to finish: developing project concepts, obtaining project funding, and managing project implementation. The Trout Unlimited mission is to conserve, protect and restore North America's coldwater fisheries and their watersheds. TU has secured two years of funding for this position. The successful applicant will work with TU staff and stakeholders to secure additional funding for project activities and to cover core operational costs to sustain the program in future years. Please submit a resume, cover letter, and three professional references to David Stillwell at dstillwell@tu.org. No phone calls please. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled.
Bird Conservancy of the Rockies is hiring a Stewardship Director. Bird Conservancy of the Rockies (formerly Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory) is a Colorado-based non-profit conservation organization established in 1988. The Stewardship Director provides strategic vision, guidance, and leadership to the Stewardship Program of Bird Conservancy. The director is responsible for supervising the Program Manager, Grant Accountant, Grassland Wildlife Coordinator, and two Senior level partner biologists while providing direction to all Stewardship staff regarding partner relations and achieving strategic goals and grant deliverables. Applications must be received on or by July 18, 2016. For more information visit their website at www.birdconservancy.org.
The Western Colorado Landscape Collaborative is looking for a Financial Administrator. This position reports to and works with the Board to provide administrative, financial and contracting services. Resumes must be received no later than 5 PM, Monday July 18th. Mail your resume, along with at least 3 references to: Unc/Com, Inc. – Attn: Brad Percefull 3447 1360 Rd. Delta, CO 81416. For more information visit the Westcolc Website.
Larimer County is looking for a Fund Development & Special Projects Specialist. This person will perform professional and technical fund development, planning, management, and services related to the acquisition, development and stewardship of land for open space, parks, and trail projects. Acts as department liaison and project manager for special projects including studies, research, and planning needed to guide the Open Lands Program within the Department of Natural Resources. The closing date to apply for this position is July 25, 2016. For more information go to the Larimer County Website.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service seeks a Land Protection Specialist in its realty division. The role of this position is to acquire and protect lands for the National Wildlife Refuge System. The employee in this position serves as a permanent, full-time realty specialist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Region 6, Refuges, National Wildlife Refuge Division of Realty, located in Lakewood, Colorado.
More information is available here: www.usajobs.gov. Apply by July 26th, 2016.
Jefferson County (North & South) is seeking a Regions Coordinators to advocate for the visitor and quality control throughout assigned parks in their respective region. Regions Coordinators perform administrative and general project coordination duties that include but are not limited to: budget development and monitoring, suggesting projects, scheduling and evaluating park improvements as they pertain to design, maintenance, visitor experience and construction. The Regions Coordinators will coordinate park improvements related to the quality of experience at Jefferson County Open Space (JCOS) in either the north or south Jeffco Open Space region, which consist of approximately 14 parks. Region Coordinators serve is the liaison between staff teams and the park visitor. This position is expected to be in the field and in their parks at least 20% of each work week. More information is available at agency.governmentjobs.com. Apply by July 27th.
The Big Thompson Watershed Forum, a Colorado 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 1997, is seeking a motivated individual to fill the part-time position of Monitoring Program Manager of the Forum. The mission of the Forum is to protect and improve water quality in the Big Thompson River Watershed through collaborative monitoring, assessment and educational projects. The Monitoring Program Manager provides leadership, technical support, and overall management of the Big Thompson Watershed Forum’s water quality monitoring and assessment activities. Applications will be accepted until July 29, 2016 with an expected start date is September 26, 2016. For more information on this position visit their website at btwatershed.org.
The Big Thompson Watershed Forum is seeking a motivated individual to fill the part-time position ofWatershed Program Administrator. The Forum is a collaborative group representing private citizens, corporations, nongovernmental organizations and government agencies. The mission of the Forum is to protect and improve water quality in the Big Thompson River Watershed through collaborative monitoring, assessment and educational projects. The Watershed Program Administrator provides leadership and overall management of the Big Thompson Watershed Forum in areas of weekly operations, planning, administration and financial management. Applications will be accepted until July 29, 2016 with an expected start date is September 19, 2016. For more information on this position visit their website at btwatershed.org.
The South Platte Basin Roundtable (SPBRT) has announced an open At‐Large Voting position. SPBRT was established through the Colorado Water for the 21st Century Act to facilitate discussions on water management issues and encourage locally driven collaborative solutions. To this end, the SPBRT is seeking passionate, professional, and committed individuals to serve as representatives on the roundtable. The SPBRT consists of up to 56 voting members who collectively represent the rich diversity of the watershed. For more information, visit the SPBRT page on the Colorado Water Conservation Board website. Interested applicants should submit a completed application to Joe Frank, SPBRT Chair atjmfrank@lspwcd.org. All information is due by July 29, 2016.
Summit County Colorado has announced a position opening for an Open Space & Trails Resource Specialist. This position is responsible for volunteer program management, public outreach and broad open space management and planning. Develops sign program and manages historic resources on open space properties. The position will be open until filled. Submit cover letter/resume and application tosummitcountyco.gov (see “Employment”). For more information please call (970) 668-4060.
Boulder County Open Space is hiring a Parks and Open Space Department Director. This is a senior management level classification in Boulder County government. The Parks and Open Space Director performs a variety of duties in managing the Parks and Open Space Department, including budgeting, personnel management, policy development, and public interaction. This position serves at the pleasure of the Board of County Commissioners, reports directly to this three-person board and is a member of the Commissioners senior management team. For more information go to their JOB POSTING.
Jefferson County Open Space is hiring a Community Connections Manager. The Community Connections Manager and Team promotes internal collaboration and seeks and provides opportunities for public engagement on a variety of projects, programs and management practices. Under limited supervision, the Community Connections Manager performs administrative and supervisory work supporting the JCOS Community Connections Team. The Community Connections Manager oversees and supports the establishment of, and adherence to, standards, procedures and performance metrics specific to their team. This includes building partnerships among agencies, coalitions, non-profits, county representatives and conservation organizations. For more information visit Jeffco.us.jobs.
Funding Opportunities for Late July
The Colorado State Forest Service (CSFS) is now accepting Forest Legacy Program proposals from Colorado landowners.
Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) - Water for Agriculture Challenge Area has announced a Request for Applications (RFA). The Water for Agriculture Challenge Area addresses critical water resources issues such as drought, excess soil moisture, flooding, quality and others in an agricultural context. Funding will be used to develop management practices, technologies, and tools for farmers, ranchers, forest owners and managers, public decision makers, public and private managers, and citizens to improve water resource quantity and quality. The long-term goal of the AFRI Water for Agriculture Challenge Area is to tackle critical water issues by developing both regional systems for the sustainable use and reuse, flow and management of water, and at the watershed and farm scales, water issues focused on production and environmental sustainability efforts. Project types supported within this Challenge area are multi-function Integrated Research, Education, and/or Extension Projects and Food and Agricultural Enhancement (FASE) Grants. RFA Closing Date: Thursday, August 4, 2016. For more information click HERE.
The Colorado Department of Natural Resources announced funding for wildfire risk reduction projects, through their Wildfire Risk Reduction Grant Program (WRRG). Two types of projects will be considered through this grant program: 1) Fuels treatment projects located in Colorado that reduce the risk of damage to property, infrastructure, water supplies, and other high-valued assets as a result of wildfire and/or limit the likelihood of wildfires spreading into populated areas; 2) Projects that address unmet needs for capacity at the local level. These grants are designed to provide communities with equipment that will enable them to treat hazardous fuels on state and private lands going forward.Application deadline is August 8th, 2016. For more information go to CDNR.US.
The Colorado State Forest Service (CSFS) is now accepting Forest Legacy Program proposals from Colorado landowners. The program authorizes the CSFS or USDA Forest Service to purchase permanent conservation easements on private forestlands to prevent those lands from being converted to non-forest uses. The purpose of the Colorado Forest Legacy Program is to protect environmentally important private forest areas that are threatened by conversion to non-forest uses. The program provides an opportunity for private landowners to retain ownership and management of their land, while receiving compensation for unrealized development rights. The Colorado State Forest Stewardship Coordinating Committee will evaluate proposals and recommend to the state forester those proposals that have sufficient merit to forward to the USDA Forest Service. The application deadline is 4 p.m. July 29, 2016, for federal fiscal year 2018 funding. For additional information or to obtain an application packet, contact Naomi Marcus at 970-491-6303. Applications also are available online at http://csfs.colostate.edu/funding-assistance.
The National Forest Foundation (NFF) is pleased to announce the 2016 Barrett Foundation Business Concept Challenge to foster innovation in natural resource management. Founded by Craig Barrett, former Chairman and CEO of Intel Corporation and long-time Board Member of the NFF, the Challenge encourages and rewards innovative market-based solutions to natural resource issues affecting National Forests and Grasslands and hopes to cultivate a new generation of entrepreneurial natural resource and business leaders. The Barrett Foundation Business Concept Challenge offers a $75,000 cash award to the winning submission and a $25,000 cash award to the first runner-up. Submission Deadline is Monday, August 15, 2016 at 11:59 pm MDT. Application instructions and more information can be found atwww.nationalforests.org.
The V. Kann Rasmussen Foundation (VKRF) Invites Applications for Environmental Projects. VKRF was established in 1991 with an emphasis on strengthening environmental research. They work primarily in the United States, but only on national and international level issues. They favor projects that take stock of; the scale of the environmental problems, use a systems approach to achieve change, link policy, advocacy, and practical solution, have international significance and perspective – even if US based, and are based on original thinking and creative ideas The foundation typically supports small or midsize organizations with proven leadership in developing strategy, communicating a vision, and executing projects. The foundation does not provide general operating support. Letters of Inquiry must be received no later than September 14, 2016. Upon review, selected applicants will be invited by the foundation to submit a full proposal. For complete program guidelines, information about previous grant recipients, and application procedures, see the VKRF website.
Great Outdoors Colorado (GOCO) has announced a Habitat Restoration Grant opportunity. GOCO funding for habitat restoration aims to improve and restore Colorado's rivers, streams, wetlands, and critical habitat. The program offers $500,000 in available funding. Previous habitat restoration grants targeted river habitat, but the current program includes all types of ecosystem restoration and enhancement, from forests and grasslands to rivers and wetlands. Applications are available upon request. For more information about this grant visit the GOCO website. Applications are due on September 23, 2016.
The Grassroots Communities Mining Mini-Grant Program, sponsored by the Indigenous Environmental Network and the Western Mining Action Network, provides support to community-based organizations and tribes or tribal programs in the U.S. and Canada. The goal of the program is to support the capacity building efforts of mining-impacted communities to assure that mining projects do not adversely affect the human, cultural, and ecological health of communities. Requests must be project-specific for an immediate need such as legal assistance, organizing and outreach, development of campaign materials, etc. Grants of up to $3,000 are provided. Requests are reviewed three times per year; the next application deadline is October 1, 2016. Visit the Western Mining Action Network website to download the application form.
Conservation Alliance Invites Nominations for Conservation Projects. The Conservation Alliance is a group of outdoor businesses that seeks to protect threatened wild places throughout North America for their habitat and recreational values. As a group of outdoor industry companies, alliance recognizes its responsibility to help protect the wild lands and waterways on which our customers recreate and wildlife thrives. Grants of up to $50,000 will be awarded for projects that seek to secure permanent and quantifiable protection of a specific wild land or waterway. Priority will be given to landscape-scale projects that have a clear benefit for habitat. In addition, campaigns should engage grassroots citizen action in support of the conservation effort and must have a clear recreational benefit. Nominations must be received no later than November 1, 2016. Upon review, selected nominees will be invited to submit full proposals by December 1, 2016. Visit the Conservation Alliance website for program guidelines, information about how to be nominated by an alliance member, and application procedures.
Trainings for Late July
JULY 27th, 2016: The Downtown Aquarium in Denver is hosting a Basic Project WET (Water Education for Teachers) Educator/Teacher workshop.
JULY 21st, 2016, Webinar from 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm MST, Understanding Native Cultural Dimensions of Climate Change in the Great Basin with speakers Phillip Mote, OSU and Samantha Chisholm Hatfield, OSU. Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) is based on observations of environmental surroundings over long periods of time. It is an integral aspect of Indigenous cultural knowledge, which is holistic in nature. Because climate change affects the presence, abundance and patterns of distribution of animals and plants, it is important to analyze behaviors and hear tribes' TEK perspectives connected to those resources. In this project, researchers documented the Duckwater Shoshone and the Paiute tribes' cultural traditions and responses to climate change in the Great Basin. This led to insights regarding responses of tribal culture to focal animals and plants that, in turn, are exposed and responding to changes in climate. For webinar Information and registration click HERE.
JULY 26th, 2016, Webinar from 3:00 PM EST, Bringing New Ideas and Innovation to the Field of Environmental Education. Co-hosted by the North American Association of Environmental Education, Dr. Nicole Ardoin, an assistant professor on a joint appointment with Stanford University’s Graduate School of Education and Woods Institute for the Environment, will speak about the potential for cross-sector coordination to initiate large scale social change. Collective Impact is a framework to tackle deeply entrenched and complex social problems. It is an innovative and structured approach to making collaboration work across government, business, philanthropy, non-profit organizations and citizens to achieve significant and lasting social change. For more information and registration click HERE.
JULY 27th, 2016: The Downtown Aquarium in Denver is hosting a Basic Project WET (Water Education for Teachers) Educator/Teacher workshop from 9:00 am – 5:00 pm. Project WET is a collection of innovative, water-related K-12 activities that are interdisciplinary, hands-on, and are fun and easy to use. Focus is on large and small group learning and laboratory investigations. Grad credit through the Colorado School of Mines is available. Register ASAP by calling Colleen Shipley at the Downtown Aquarium, 303-561-4444.
JULY 28th, 2016: The Downtown Aquarium in Denver is hosting Ocean Literacy for Grades 1-12. Even though Colorado is not near an ocean, we are tied to it in many ways. Ocean literacy is an understanding of the ocean’s influence on you – and your influence on the ocean. Learn the 7 essential principals of ocean literacy through interactive lessons and visiting the Aquarium. This workshop will be held from 9:00 am – 5:00 pm. ½ Credit available through Colorado School of Mines. For questions call the Education Department, Downtown Aquarium, at (303) 561-4444.
JULY 28th, 2016, Webinar beginning at 11:00 AM CT, Water Conservation Tracking Tool. The Alliance for Water Efficiency will be holding this webinar to present Version 3 of the Water Conservation Tracking Tool. This state-of-the-art planning model evaluates water savings, costs, and benefits of conservation programs for your water utility. The newest version includes brand new features to help you plan better, more effective programs. The webinar is free to all attendees. Click here to learn more.
2016 EMERALD ASH BORER DIAGNOSTIC FIELD TOURS. The Colorado Emerald Ash Borer Response Team and the City of Boulder’s Urban Forestry Division will host six van tours in August. They will visit infested sites around the City of Boulder to give attendees experience diagnosing EAB in the field by learning to assess symptomatic trees. Management considerations, biology, and regulation will also be discussed. Space is limited and RSVPs are required. Who should attend: City officials, municipal foresters, tree care professionals and anyone involved in the detection effort or in making management decisions regarding EAB. FOR QUESTIONS OR TO RSVP, PLEASE CONTACT Micaela Truslove City of Boulder Urban Forestry Division truslovem@bouldercolorado.gov , (720) 663-0430.
Tour Dates: (Please note: there are two separate tours per date)
- Tuesday, August 2nd 10:00 a.m. to noon, 1:00 to 3:00 p.m.
- Thursday, August 4th 10:00 a.m. to noon, 1:00 to 3:00 p.m.
- Monday, August 8th 10:00 a.m. to noon, 1:00 to 3:00 p.m.
Stormwater Workshop Series with The Water Educator Network partnering with Earth Force and Denver Public Works. This full-day professional development workshop combines training in Earth Force’s award-winning, six-step Community Action and Problem Solving Process, with water quality monitoring protocols. The day will also include a storm drain hunt, hands-on use of enviroscape model, individual unit lesson-planning time, in-stream data collection, and visits from expert engineers and scientists. Each participant will go home with a Colorado-specific activity guide and access to ongoing assistance and resources to use with middle and high school students and adult community audiences. Click on each location below for more information and registration.
AUGUST 23rd & 24th, 2016: Pollinator Short Courses hosted by Natural Resources Conservation Service, Xerces Society, and Partners. Over 30% of our food relies on insect pollination! Honey bees support approximately $15 billion in crop production, while wild native bees supply an estimate $3 billion in pollination! These invertebrates are amazingly important! Space is limited, so hurry and sign up now!
- August 23rd, Pueblo Pollinator Short Course, Southeast Colorado Water Conservancy District, 31717 E United Ave, Pueblo, CO 81001.
- August 24th, Lamar Pollinator Short Course, Lamar County Fairgrounds (Home Economics Building), 2206 Saddle Club Drive, Lamar, CO 81052
The Association for Fire Ecology has developed the Wildland Fire Professional Certification program to further ecologically-based fire science and management. The deadline to apply has been extended to September 1, 2016. Visit the AFE website for more information about their certification programs and to apply.