<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Attention!  Graduate students interested in engaging around climate communication and solutions, and those who want more info on:</div><div><ol><li style="margin-left:15px">The <a href="https://pcc.uw.edu/education/graduate-certificate/" target="_blank">Graduate Certificate in Climate Science</a> and required Climate Communication Capstone project</li><li style="margin-left:15px"><a href="https://pcc.uw.edu/research/acorn-program/" target="_blank">Actionable Community-Oriented Research eNgagement (ACORN) </a>projects and</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Project ideas from potential collaborators inside and outside the UW (see list below). </li></ol></div><div><b><font size="4">Please join others with similar interests on <br></font></b></div><b><font size="4">Jan 23 at 3pm in OCN 425</font></b><div><br></div><div>Miriam Bertram, PCC Assistant Director and PCC Capstone Adviser, LuAnne Thompson, PCC Interim Director, and PGraSC/ACORN leaders, and potential partners will all be there.  Names of those joining us, and their affiliations and potential projects are listed below.</div><div><span id="m_-1321313629557324654m_7643499480867538463gmail-docs-internal-guid-423aef3b-7fff-8f83-61d4-088aae402bcc"><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Rishi Sugla and Anam Mehta, CIG-Northwest Climate Resilience Collaborative (NCRC). Develop curriculum for a pilot summer school for students, technical experts, and community experts wanting to work in relationships of co-production and solidarity with frontline communities. Curriculum Development.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Leigh Anderson and Didier Alia, Evans School Policy Analysis and Research and UW Center for Risk and Inclusion in Food Systems (CRIFS) See </span><a href="https://pcc.uw.edu/blog/2022/06/08/first-steps-climate-change-curriculum-for-agricultural-analysts-and-decision-makers-in-sub-saharan-africa/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">recent blog post</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> on completed project. Curriculum Development.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/makotoeyre/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Makoto Eyre, </span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">CEO and Chief Engineer of </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/makotoeyre/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Homeostasis</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">, a CO2 removal & utilization startup based in Tacoma, WA. They focus on producing graphite (critical material for electrodes for energy storage solutions) out of atmospheric CO2.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Lauren Silver, Executive director of the Snoqualmie Valley Preservation Alliance (SVPA). Help SVPA get started investigating the economic impacts of flooding on the Snoqualmie Valley’s food and farming system. First phase is collecting relevant data from farmers and assisting SVPA staff with developing a high-level report on impacts to share with key stakeholders and decision-makers.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Mark Windschitl, Professor, UW Science Education. Climate Science education, including teacher-scientist workshops. See </span><a href="https://pcc.uw.edu/blog/2021/06/05/lessons-learned-how-can-we-connect-middle-school-students-to-climate-change-and-ocean-acidification/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">blog post</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> on past project. Can have conversations with grad students who want to integrate education into their projects. </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Mary Manous, Cascadia Climate Action, Mentor and partner for  Schooner/Pub Talks and other outreach.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Neil Davis, a software engineer at Microsoft  interested in getting involved in the climate tech space and supporting projects that help with carbon reduction or transitioning away from oil and gas.</span></p></li></ul><br></span></div><div>Thinking you'll join us?  Let me know <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSflG_RKEpFsHQtpu1dPvW1VyCicE16hTDShXdHk3-ojtpQ94Q/viewform?usp=sf_link" target="_blank">here</a>.  </div><div>We'll have cookies at tea and conversation for the last 15-30 minutes, so registering will help with planning.</div></div><div><br></div><div>Have a great weekend,</div><div>Miriam</div><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><font size="1" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(61,61,61)">"The University of Washington acknowledges the Coast Salish peoples of this land, the land which touches the shared waters of all tribes and bands within the Suquamish, Tulalip and Muckleshoot nations."</span><br></font></div><div><br></div><div><img src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/mail-sig/AIorK4xz-hsjj842PzVxKDgUOLIhLvlkTUzBRCR0ta2uPMo_8kUTY1VklXBZ1y3qcYA8AU0Ua-72Rpo"><br></div><div><br></div><div><font face="georgia, serif">@uwpcc    <a href="http://pcc.uw.edu" target="_blank">pcc.uw.edu</a>   <a href="mailto:uwpcc@uw.edu" target="_blank">uwpcc@uw.edu</a></font><br></div></div></div></div></div>