Events

Schedule: (Virtual) October-December 2025, Saturdays, 10 am-12 pm EST unless otherwise indicated.

1. Session 1: Saturday, October 18^th
2. Session 2: Saturday, October 25^th
3. Session 3: Saturday, November 1^st
4. Session 4: Saturday, November 8^th
5. Session 5: Saturday, November 15^th
6. Session 6: Saturday, November 22^nd
7. Session 7: Saturday, December 6^th (*3 Hour Session: 10-1 pm)

Workshop Fees: 

$1,900 per 15-hour workshop

Workshop Overview: 

Water covers about 71% of our planet, making it one of Earth’s most important resources. It’s essential for life, from the tiniest plankton to humans who depend on it every day for drinking water. It creates a huge variety of aquatic habitats including rivers, estuaries, lakes, oceans, and wetlands which are home to incredible species and ecosystems. Oceans and wetlands are a vital part of the climate system. Oceans modulate and distribute heat around the globe, and along with wetlands store carbon and act as carbon sinks. However, water on Earth is changing. Climate change poses an array of challenges, altering and destroying vital habitats, changing precipitation patterns increasing the potential for droughts and flooding, changing global sea level, and threatening water security.

In this workshop we will focus on how climate change is impacting water systems on Earth from ecosystem disturbances to potential public health crises. We will identify the importance of different aquatic ecosystems, the changes they are facing, and approaches to mitigate and adapt to climate change. We will delve into how climate change poses a risk to public health, contaminating waterways, and decreasing the availability of drinking water through salination of freshwater and drought events. Using the knowledge acquired over the course of the workshop, students will create a final presentation sharing an example of a water system or aquatic habitat that is being impacted by climate change within their own community and identify potential mitigations.