The Idaho EPSCoR Annual Meeting was held on May 13-15 in Worley, Idaho, and was held at the partner site located on the Coeur d’Alene Tribe’s homelands. The event brought together faculty, staff and students from Boise State University, Idaho State University and the University of Idaho, amongst other community partners, for networking and research updates from around the state related to the Idaho Community-engaged Resilience for Energy-Water Systems (I-CREWS) award.
The Coeur d’Alene Tribe’s team members included Laura Laumatia (Environmental Programs Manager), Shawna Campbell-Daniels (Climate & Energy Research & Outreach Specialist), Dale Chess (Limnologist), Lynn Fatu (Clean Energy Innovator Fellow), Aiyana James (Climate Resilience Coordinator) and Zachary Miller (Energy Coordinator).
The team hosted tours of the Tribe’s energy-water projects. Participants were able to visit locations around the Coeur d’Alene Tribe’s reservation including Setters sub-station, the Coeur Center, and the Elders’ apartments solar installation. Participants also visited the Hangman Creek restoration site at the Eagle Aviary, and the Nature Boardwalk at the Plummer Creek Marsh in Heyburn State Park in the southern end of Coeur d’Alene Lake.
Other presentations from the conference included updates from I-CREWS component teams and keynote from Jamie Trammell, Associate Professor and Chair of the Environmental Science, Policy, & Sustainability program at Southern Oregon University, who presented on “Mapping Tomorrow: Navigating Spaces of Possibility in Alternative Future Scenarios.” New I-CREWS faculty and postdoctoral researchers also presented “lightning talks” on their research.
The annual networking event is a way for NSF EPSCoR and I-CREWS participants to gather and work to identify energy and water use strategies that will be resilient to Idaho’s changing needs.
Annual Meeting Photos
This publication was made possible by the NSF Idaho EPSCoR Program and by the National Science Foundation under award number OIA-2242769.