Webinar: Tribal Waters and Climate Change

The Emerging Voices of Tribal Perspectives in Water Resources webinar highlights papers from the April special issue on tribal waters in the Journal of Contemporary Water Research & Education (JCWRE). Karletta Chief of the University of Arizona is the issue editor. Dr. Chief will facilitate the webinar and provide an introduction.

Webinar #1 features two papers on tribal waters and climate change. First, Suhina Deol and Bonnie Colby will discuss their paper, “Tribal Economies: Water Settlements, Agriculture, and Gaming in the Western U.S.” Ryan Emanuel will follow with a talk on, “Climate Change in the Lumbee River Watershed and Potential Impacts on the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina.”

Registration information will be available at http://www.ucowr.org/ soon.

Webinar #2 associated with this series is on May 23rd at 11 am CST.