Adaptation: Wildfires and Agricultural Systems
About this Event
Date: August 20th
Time: 6 - 7:30 p.m.
Location: Pine Meadow Ranch Center for Arts & Agriculture
This lecture features presentations from Rika Ayotte and John Selker, who will share insights from their work with the Deschutes Land Trust and the OPEnS Lab. Drawing on research, field experience, and student-led projects, they will explore the impacts of wildfires and innovative approaches to understanding agricultural systems through environmental sensing and community-based research.
For ages 16 and older. Those under age 16 may attend accompanied by an adult.
About the Speakers:
Rika Ayotte - Bend, OR
Rika Ayotte is the Deschutes Land Trust's Executive Director and a member of the Oregon Land Justice Project council. She holds a bachelor’s degree in History and American Indian studies from the University of Washington and a Master’s Degree in Museum Administration and an MBA in nonprofit management from John F. Kennedy University. She serves on the boards of Discover Your Northwest, The Museum at Warm Springs and the Global Leadership Adventures International Foundation and sits on the Deschutes and Ochoco National Forest Resource Advisory Committee.
John Selker - Corvallis, OR
John Selker (OSU University Distinguished Professor, Biological and Ecological Engineering, 35 years) and co-Director of: The Center for Transformative Environmental Monitoring Programs ; the Trans-African Hydro-Meteorological Observatory; and PI of the Openly Published Environmental Sensing Laboratory (currently employing 35 undergraduates). Selker has published 246 peer-reviewed scientific papers and worked on five continents. Focus areas include environmental instrumentation, groundwater processes, precipitation statistics, desert evaporation, snow melt, and stream ecohydrology. Selker is a fellow of the AGU and immediate past President of the AGU Hydrology Section (6,000 members). He has an undergraduate degree in physics (Reed College), and MS and PhD in Agricultural Engineering (Cornell University). He was editor of Water Resources Research. He loves making things, from silly to serious.
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