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Among our many esteemed presenters at this year's conference, we are honored to have our two keynote speakers join our event:

Tuesday, April 25th

Dr. Mike Crimmins
Mike Crimmins is on the faculty of the Department of Environmental Science at the University of Arizona and is an Extension Specialist in Climate Science for Arizona Cooperative Extension. He has been in this role for 18 years working with ranchers, farmers and natural resource managers across Arizona to integrate climate information in their planning and decision making and assisting them in developing strategies to adapt to a changing climate.

His presentation will explore how he uses data science tools to support his Extension program focused on climate science in the Southwestern United States. Open source programming languages, like R, and the expansion of data accessibility through application programming interfaces (APIs) has made it easier than ever for Extension professionals to connect stakeholders with the data that matters to them. He will discuss several case examples that focus on how these tools are used to access, process and visualize climate data and turn it into actionable information that supports natural resource management in the Southwest.

 

Wednesday, April 26th

Collette Brown-Rodriguez
Collette has over 20 years of experience in natural resource development and Tribal affairs.  She is a citizen of the Confederated Salish Kootenai Tribe and descendant of the Navajo Nation which encompasses much of the Southwestern United States.  She has a bachelor of science in environmental science from Salish Kootenai College (a 1994) and an MBA from the University of Arizona.  She's the current director of Community and Tribal Relations for Avantus, a renewable energy company as well as director of Apollo Silver out of Vancouver.

Her presentation will go over growing up on a Reservation, the Land Grant Institution Experience and exposure to technology, those first working experiences with technology, and utilizing technology in the energy transition as well as the impacts to Tribes, renewables, energy and mining.

 

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