Thanks to funding through the Science Institute at the University of Wyoming, we launched the project Assessing and addressing rural futures: Integrated assessment modeling, digital twin design and technology outreach for building resilient communities.
This project (2024-26) consists of a statewide assessment to understand potential futures, a pilot community-scale geospatial design twin, and outreach efforts around technology innovation.
Funding through the North Central Climate Science Adaptation Center allows summer-long graduate fellows to conduct bounded projects to address rural community needs focused on building resilience to change, starting in summer 2025.
In partnership with colleagues across University of Wyoming, at the North Central Climate Science Adaptation Center, Western Water Assessment, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, several ongoing applied research projects meet the needs of partnering agencies, organizations or stakeholders.
Our team helps community partners answer user-inspired research questions
With funding through the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and partner Western Water Assessment, we funded three applied community resilience projects across rural Wyoming in 2023.
Partners were able to host youth-elder climate and culture camps on the Wind River Indian Reservation, engage immigrant populations in sustainability planning in Jackson Hole, and support community planning around resilience to changes in weather and water availability around the state.
In addition to our pilot funding through the Center Initiative, we have secured close to $1 million in funds for the Center and submitted another $3.5 million in proposals. We are working hard to make sure that the Center is an enduring institution that makes important strides towards rural resilience within Wyoming and beyond.
The Center for Rural Resilience and Innovation builds on the work of the National Science Foundation-funded EPSCoR project (2022-2027) WyACT.
WyACT focuses on how shifts in water availability cascade through the headwaters region of Wyoming in order to build the capacity of Wyoming communities to anticipate and plan for change. Our work builds upon and significantly expands that work and extends it beyond the project area. Learn more about WyACT
