Current Charters
The goal of this project is to develop a template for water resources and watershed planning for rural Indigenous communities in the Intermountain West that emphasizes local community needs and concerns and Indigenous and place-based ...
The goal of this Charter is to build a research team that is trained in systems thinking and is prepared to do ongoing convergent research to understand and influence the behavior of the Santa Fe Watershed system.
This project will develop and apply a novel framework for the assessment of risk, resilience, and adaptive capacity in the face of multiple natural hazards in the Santa Fe Watershed (SFW).
The central goal of this project is to empower Indigenous communities with FEW security through the development and implementation of water treatment systems and controlled environment agriculture (CEA) greenhouse units integrated with resilient photovoltaic (PV) systems.
The goal of this project is to characterize how and where novel wildfire-watershed governance systems are created and to understand whether different governance systems vary in terms of adaptive management, effectiveness, and fairness, as well as other identified outcomes during our research engagement.
This project will investigate the long-term ecological outcomes of large wildfires and how management actions, such as planting, impact the ecological resilience of large fire footprints.
The central goal of this project is to empower Indigenous communities with FEW security through the development and implementation of water treatment systems and controlled environment agriculture (CEA) greenhouse units integrated with resilient photovoltaic (PV) systems
The goal of this project is to synthesize the rich and diverse set of data and knowledge from current or recent research and education projects at WSU in the Yakima River Basin (YRB).
The goal of this project is to assess specific current needs for guidance, resources and training to help TN research teams effectively and ethically engage with communities in convergent research.
The goal of this project is to explore examples of diverse economies within the Intermountain West as a source of capacity- and imagination-building for transformative possibility.
The long-term goal of this project is to develop a comprehensive food-energy-water system asset database and map across the Intermountain West.
This project seeks to characterize human and environmental wellbeing in the IMW at multiple scales of governance, decision-making, and action (place, county, watershed, etc.).
To achieve the goals set by TN’s PMP, this project aims to develop learning modules on how to (1) embrace multiple ways of knowing and (2) integrate Indigenous and place-based knowledges.
Advance convergent and transformative practices through supporting the artist-scientist partners to collaboratively produce their artwork that conveys scientific messages for display at Explora! as a part of the Annual Resilience Colloquium.
The goal of this project is to gather and examine research done along the San Juan River Watershed related to agricultural practices, in general, and perceptions of controlled environment agriculture, specifically, with measures that also include water and soil health in the region known geographically as the Four Corners.
This project seeks to understand the history and impacts of Indigenous and settler-colonial water policy and management practices in the Colorado River Basin (CRB) and Poudre River Basin (PRB).
This project seeks to understand ecologically-minded agricultural practices currently being used and that could be applied in the arid Southwest region of the U.S.
This project will identify spatial and temporal interdependencies through understanding of the main components, internal feedbacks, governing system processes, and interconnectedness of all Exemplar systems.
Past Charters
The overarching goal of this project is to characterize SES resilience by measuring value-explicit perceptions of resilience in the IMW, starting with the Poudre River Watershed and extending to other Exemplar Regions if resources allow.
Increasing urbanization and development efforts have led to observable stream impacts consistent and prevalent enough to earn the name Urban Stream Syndrome. Despite the recognizable and consistent symptoms of Urban Stream Syndrome, predicting and quantifying stream responses remains difficult throughout the stages of urban development.
The overall goal is to systematically understand the role that river and watershed organizations play in the social ecological wellbeing of rivers and their local and regional contexts.