The University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD) will be hosting the Our Climate Futures: Participatory Science on a Great Lake conference February 3 and 4, 2025. Indoor sessions will take place in The Rafters and Garden Room in the Kirby Student Center.Registration for the Our Climate Futures: Participatory Science on a Great Lake conference is free and open to all community members. If you plan to attend the conference, please register online. As climate change intensifies, there is an urgent need to expand environmental monitoring to track trends and extreme events. This work is typically conducted by national agencies and universities. Yet citizens in our region’s rural, urban, and tribal lands also care deeply about climate change and its impacts. Researchers can tap into this energy through participatory science projects that are mutually beneficial, especially if there is equitable representation of local communities in terms of age, socioeconomic status, and racial identity. Aside from increasing data collection, community engagement opens up a wider range of perspectives and lived experiences, which modify research questions, address environmental and social inequities, reduce data bias, and build trust between researchers and the community. This conference aims to facilitate community conversations that lead to equitable, participatory science projects and produce impactful adaptation and mitigation action.More information can be found on the Our Climate Futures Conference website.
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