SustainFood: Water, energy, food systems fieldwork opportunity for early-career researchers in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed in June 2024
Apply to participate with costs paid in the Collaborative Learning School (CLS) to be held in Pennsylvania and areas surrounding the Chesapeake Bay, June 1st – 14th, 2024.
Interested but want to learn more? Join an information session with time built in to answer your questions: Wednesday October 18th, 9:30-10:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). Register for the info session at https://psu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_r3IinRquSz6ZUeCTt50S6g#/registration. See also https://sustainfood.psu.edu/cls2024/ or contact Nathan Weyandt ndw5072@psu.edu.
The CLS will be led by experts from Penn State, Michigan State, and Stockholm Environment Institute, who lead the SustainFood network project supported by the National Science Foundation. Participants selected to join the CLS will gain exposure to a multitude of water-energy-food (WEF) nexus topics including sustainable agriculture, food value chains, agroforestry, nutrient loading to waterways, instream ecological flows, climate-driven flood and drought extremes, bioenergy, manure-based biogas, solar and wind technologies, and legacy effects of historical coal mining and current development of oil, gas, and fracking.
Apply to be a CLS participant by November 3rd, 2023 at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeHcxpYzQZ7jP5Z1fpxS8qafkBu_25TXh7AF45XgeeO6yZ_cg/viewform
You may access the CLS poster: Click here