This is an opportunity for PhD students and PhD graduates who are engaged in research and focus on aspects of water, energy, and food. A collaborative learning school (CLS) is being offered for students and early career scientists from Africa and US and now we are focusing on US based students to balance the co learning environment. This is a network developing program supported by National Science Foundation to expand Accel WEF Nexus.  The deadline for application is Dec 15.

 

The program entails preparation via zoom sessions pre event with the CLS cohort then the opportunity to collaborate to write and co author policy briefs and journal articles based on topics identified and investigated during the summer CLS (June 2-14) that will be held in the Chesapeake Bay area. The premise of the CLS is to engage entry level researchers with community-based stakeholders to collaborate with networks to address critical issues around water, energy and food. Please see below and attached flyer for additional details.

 

Vicki Morrone

Organic Farming Specialist and Beginning Farmer Educator

Dept of Community Sustainability, Michigan State University

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Subject: Water, energy, food systems fieldwork opportunity for early-career researchers in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed in June 2024!

[Subject]: 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.

 

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. 

 

More information can be found on our website. https://sites.psu.edu/sustainfood/cls2024/

 

Apply to be a CLS participant by December 15th, 2023 at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeHcxpYzQZ7jP5Z1fpxS8qafkBu_25TXh7AF45XgeeO6yZ_cg/viewform

 

~ The SustainFood team