April 8-9, 2013 Annual Colorado College State of the Rockies Conference
Celebrating The Rockies Project’s Tenth Year!
Conservation in the Rockies:
Issues of Citizen Science, Water Friendly Futures and Winter Recreation
Monday April 8
Citizen Science in the Rockies:
Outdoor Adventure Strengthening Knowledge of Nature
7:30 – 9:00 PM
Richard F. Celeste South Theater
Edith Kinney Gaylord Cornerstone Arts Center
- Moderator: J. Thomas McMurray, Ph.D., independent investor, co-founder of non-profits: Marine Venture Foundation, Ocean Foundation and Blue Cloud Spatial
- Carson McMurray ’12, “Uses of Citizen Science on the 2012 Down the Colorado Expedition – Blue Cloud Mapping Effort”
- Talk and presentation by Scott Loarie, Ph.D., post-doctoral fellow, Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, Calif.
- On crowd-sourced “citizen-science” data, “Can Social Networks Save Biodiversity?”
- Talk and presentation by Brendan Weiner, program director, Adventurers & Scientists for Conservation, Bozeman, Mont.
- On pairing adventurers and science, “Turning to Adventure Athletes for Data Collection”
- Questions and Answers
- Refreshments and Conversation
Tuesday April 9
Outdoor Recreation and the Winter Olympics:
Companion or Threat to the Rockies?
7:30 – 9:00 PM
Richard F. Celeste South Theater
Edith Kinney Gaylord Cornerstone Arts Center
- Rockies Project Introduction and 2013 Rockies Report CardUnveiling
- Project Student Researchers share their research
- Rockies Award Recognition
- President Jill Tiefenthaler, presenting citation to the 2012-13 Colorado College Champion of the Rockies:
- The Honorable Richard Lamm, 3 term Former Governor of Colorado
- President Jill Tiefenthaler, presenting citation to the 2012-13 Colorado College Champion of the Rockies:
- Keynote Talk by Gov. Lamm
- “Early Colorado Environmental Movement and the 1976 Winter Olympics Controversy”
- Ceil Folz, President and CEO, Vail Valley Foundation
- “Major Events … Bringing the World to Colorado and Colorado to the World: Vail Resorts Hosting of February 2015 World Cup Ski Championships”
- Questions and Answers
- Refreshments and Conversation