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It was a beautiful Friday morning and the start of a brand new month, and we’ve got a busy November ahead of us on campus including: 🍎 Apple Butter/Sauce Workshop (FREE!) 🌾 2nd Saturday: Made in Colorado featuring a Día de los Muertos celebration 🧑🍳 Cooking Classes 💧 Water in the West Symposium And more! Head to csuspur.org/events to get caught up and find the best time for you to come visit!

Coming to next month’s #WITW2024? Attendees are encouraged to also register for Colorado Water Center's Dr. Norm Evan’s lecture featuring Patricia Mulroy! A leader in the international water community for more that 30 years, Pat Mulroy serves as a Senior Fellow for Climate Adaptation and Environmental Policy and Practitioner in Residence for the Saltman Center for Conflict Resolution at the UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law. Registration is FREE with reception to follow 💧More info at csuspur.org/witw

Just ✌️weeks away from #WITW2024! Will Sarni of the Water Foundry/Earth Finance, Inc. is going to be there speaking on the Multi-Sector Water Collaboration panel — will you be there to watch? Tickets and info can be found at csuspur.org/witw 💧

Don’t miss the Community Panel at this year’s #WITW2024 — Coming to the Table: Food and Ag Collaborative Success in the West moderated by CSU College of Agricultural Sciences Dean Carolyn Lawrence-Dill and featuring Heather Dutton, Ben Moline, and Meagan Schipanski. The symposium is just under three weeks away! More information on the day’s agenda and a registration link can be found here 💧csuspur.org/witw

We were so excited to serve as the host site today for the Colorado Science Conference — a one-day professional development and networking conference for science educators, including K-12 teachers, college instructors, informal educators, administrators, pre-service teachers, and retired teachers! It was an honor to provide a space for this vibrant exchange of knowledge and collaboration 🧑🔬

How can we fit our urban landscapes with the most resilient tree species possible to withstand the stresses of climate change? This week the Forestry Hub at #CSUSpur broke ground on a new research grove just outside of the Hydro Backyard to try to figure out just that 🌲 This plot will feature 10 different trees from eight different species that, over the next couple of years, will undergo intentional stress conditions with the specific goal of understanding which trees perform best in terms of water use for urban landscapes. The Community Forestry Hub at #CSUSpur fosters healthy and resilient forests in cities and towns across Colorado through public engagement and education, workforce development, and applied research. It is a collaborative effort among the Colorado State Forest Service, Warner College of Natural Resources, CSU College of Agricultural Sciences, and other natural resource partners. Thank you to our friends at nearby SuperTrees Incorporated for providing the trees and facilitating the planting!

Don’t miss keynote speaker Michaela Kerrissey of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health at this year’s Water in the West Symposium! Dr. Kerrissey has authored more than 30 publications on team and organizational topics, designed Harvard’s organization science course, and was recently shortlisted for the top award from Thinkers50 Radar, a global listing of top management thinkers. Information and registration can be found here 💧csuspur.org/witw

It’s always a blast when the Girl Scouts of Colorado take over campus 🚀🚀 The theme of this year's event was “The Science of Storytelling,” with activities that explored diverse voices in the science community, how their stories are told, and how we can tell stories about the world around us!

Any guesses how many trout eggs are in this little bag? Earlier this week Denver Trout Unlimited dropped off a new group of trout eggs for our community tank on the 4th floor of Hydro. In about 9 months our team will release them in the river once they are able, but for right now you can swing by and watch them actively grow up close and learn all about the trout life cycle from the beginning!

Meet Rebekah Buena — a graduate of nearby Bruce Randolph School in Denver who got hooked on higher education while visiting #CSUSpur, interned with Dr. Jennifer Bousselot, and recently entered CSU as an Honors student in landscape architecture.   She is one of eight students highlighted in a new docuseries by the #CSUSystem that charts the stories of first-generation scholars as they pursue higher education and its benefits, and the first episode is now streaming at csusystem.edu/first-degree 🎉