It's time for the annual Environmental Futures Forum at UVA!
Each year, this event has featured the exciting and collaborative work from UVA's Environmental Institute affiliates and UVA researchers working to find solutions to some of the toughest climate and environmental resilience challenges. From sciences to the humanities, UVA is finding new and innovative ways to combat climate change and accelerate decarbonization.
In this dynamic event, participants will be inspired by the frontier research currently underway.
NEW FOR 2023! UVA's Environmental Institute will host a panel focused on community-engaged and place-based research. What does it mean to engage in research and scholarship that can make a positive impact on communities? How does research effectively use community comments and feedback to shape the work? What are the benefits, challenges, and opportunities to engaging many voices? Join the Institute for a discussion on this topic, and more, at the Environmental Futures Forum!
The Environmental Futures Forum remains an event focused on collaboration and community. Each year working sessions and conversations generate new ideas and partnerships, fueled by people passionate about using interdisciplinary research, merging theories, methods, and data to develop novel frameworks and applications to have transformative and societal impact.
The Institute is also excited to announce the award of the brand new Climate Collaboratives at the 2023 Environmental Futures Forum.
To limit food waste, advance registration is required.
This event will be held during the first half of the day at the CODE Building on the Downtown Mall of Charlottesville, followed by lunch and working sessions at UVA's Environmental Institute's offices less than a block away.
Program
8:00 a.m. - Check-in and Breakfast
8:30 a.m. - Welcome remarks
Karen McGlathery, Director of UVA's Environmental Institute
Megan Barnett, Vice Provost for Academic Initiatives
Melur Ramasubramanian, Vice President for Research
8:45 a.m. - Panel Discussion on Community-Engaged and Place-Based Research
Andre Elliott, Co-Chair of the Community Advisory Committee, Eastern Shore of Virginia Climate Equity Project
Moira O'Neill, Associate Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning & Associate Professor of Law, UVA
Leena Cho, Associate Professor in Landscape Architecture & Co-Director, Arctic Design Group
9:45 a.m. Announcement and Presentation of the Inaugural Climate Collaboratives
10:45 a.m. Break
11:00 a.m. Introduction of UVA's Environmental Institute's Climate Fellows
Henry Boachi, Program Manager at UVA's Environmental Institute
11:15 a.m. Research to Action: 2022-2023 EI Projects and Research
with UVA faculty and researchers
12:15 p.m. Pathways to Grants
Kim Mayer, Associate Vice President for Research Development
Jonah Fogel, Program Manager at UVA's Environmental Institute
12:45 p.m. Lunch at the Environmental Institute's office
with a Working Session on Faculty Opportunities for Teaching & Research at/through UVA Morven Sustainability Lab (MSL)
led by Beth Meyer, Merrill D. Peterson Professor of Landscape Architecture; the Morven Sustainability Lab inaugural faculty director
Manuel Lerdau, Professor of Environmental Science and of Biology, Co-Founder & Former Morven Summer Institute Instructor
Paul Freedman, Associate Professor of Political Science; Director, Environmental Thought and Practice; Co-founder of the Morven Summer Institute & current Morven Summer Institute Instructor
2:00 p.m. Faculty Working Sessions at the Environmental Institute's office
Session Option 1: Grant Brewing for Emerging Federal Investments
led by Andres Clarens, Associate Director of UVA's Environmental Institute
Session Option 2: "How-to" Insights on Community-Engaged Research
led by UVA’s Equity Center
