Morning Agenda:
9:00-9:30 Welcome and Symposium Kick-Off. High School Student Driving Question: How can we build a community of sustainability and stewardship?
9:30-10:30 Speaker Dr. Andrew Gronewold. Title: Water Security and Sustainability Across Earth’s Largest Freshwater Bodies: A Great Lakes Perspective
10:30-11:00 Break and Hope College student posters displayed in the atrium
11:00-12:00 Hope College Student Panel on Different Topics (transportation, waste, water issues, microplastics, climate change, Michigan, trees, etc…)
12:00-1:30 High School Student Scavenger Hunt, Lunch, and Team/Mentor Discussion Meeting
*9:30 Keynote Description: The Great Lakes hold roughly 20% of all the Earth’s fresh surface water, and the ten largest lakes in the world (including the Great Lakes) hold approximately 80% of all the Earth’s fresh surface water. Understanding how water flows through large lakes and how it is used by people and wildlife living in large lake basins is therefore critical to long-term global water supply and water security, as well as human and environmental health. In this lecture, Dr. Gronewold explores advances in regional and global hydrologic and climate science and how that science is being used to improve coastal resilience and long-term sustainable use of the Laurentian Great Lakes and other large lakes around the world.
Evening Academic/Community Lecture Agenda:
6:30-7:00 pm Hope College Student Research Posters
7:008:00 p.m. Lecture Dr. Andrew Gronewold (Record for sharing with other classes). Title: Understanding Changes across Global Transboundary Waters and Implications for Sustainable Water Resources Management
8:00-8:30 pm Hope College Student Research Posters
Lecture Description: Nearly half of the Earth’s land surface is in a watershed or basin that transects the boundary of two or more sovereign nations. This geopolitical context serves as a backdrop for a world in which water security (including a need to recognize water as a shared resource) hinges on positive multilateral relationships. As different regions experience changes in precipitation, flooding, drought, and potential shifts in population dynamics, they are correspondingly faced with a broad range of water resources management challenges. This lecture provides a new look at how different regions are meeting those challenges, and how a global perspective might help improve water resources management at regional and basin scales (including at the scale of the Laurentian Great Lakes).