Presenting Climate LIVE K12: Responses to Winter 2022 and Spring 2023 Meetings
We are excited to announce the start of our Climate LIVE (previously No live K12) series. Climate LIVE is an online video series featuring experts from around the world Columbia Climate School From November 2022 to June 2023, present climate and sustainability content for elementary and college students, educators, parents, and the general public. The series will feature 1-hour live sessions featuring interdisciplinary researchers who will share various aspects of their work through lectures and interactive activities. We look forward to delivering eight exciting monthly sessions covering a variety of topics. We hope to see you at upcoming talks!
All meetings will be held on the second Wednesday of each month from November 2022 to June 2023 from 4:00pm-5:00pm EST.
All conferences are free, but pre-registration is required for each event. RSVP links and schedules from November to June are below. A Zoom webinar link will be sent to all registered attendees prior to the show.All meetings will be recorded and hosted at Climate Live Easy to access page.
Parents/Students: Please note that each lesson has a specific target age range.
Educators: We recommend listening to lessons that correspond to the age group you are teaching, and as we are able to, we will share additional readings and resources.
Student Activism in the Climate Movement
Wednesday, November 9, 2022: 4:00pm-5:00pm ET
Speakers: High School Climate Activists Suler Lu, Ajani Stella, Nadine Ismail
Target Audience: Grades 9-12
Youth Action Crucial in the climate movement because their voices have a special power. Young people have become major players in climate planning and decision-making due to their creativity, optimism and fresh solutions-based ideas. In this session, we will hear from youth activists, leaders in their local communities who provide climate adaptation, mitigation and resilience strategies to create a more climate-just and sustainable future.
Climate Justice in New York City
Wednesday, December 14, 2022: 4:00pm-5:00pm ET
Speaker: Thad Pawlowski, Managing Director, Center for Resilient Cities and Landscapes and Adjunct Associate Professor, Urban Design and Urban Planning Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
Target Audience: Grades 6-12
What lessons have we learned from the 10-year recovery after Hurricane Sandy? Urban planners and designers must think creatively about the challenges and opportunities of addressing local climate change adaptation. In particular, climate justice pushes planners to rethink how cities are built to promote equity.
Generate application for acceptance
Wednesday, January 11, 2023: 4:00pm-5:00pm ET
Speakers: Rashawn Khamari Merchant, graduate student in climate and society; Tenzing Sherpa, undergraduate student; Madison Mira, high school student; Cassie Xu, associate director of non-degree education and outreach programs at Columbia Climate Institute
Target audience: Grades 8-12, undergraduate and graduate students
How do you best represent yourself on your application? How do you show reviewers that you are the best person for the role? In this session, we will hear directly from students who have successfully applied for internships, summer programs, undergraduate and graduate schools. Our groups are made up of students at all stages of their academic careers – high school, undergraduate and graduate. We’ll even hear what reviewers have to say about what they’re looking for when selecting candidates. Our panelists will share tips, tricks, and lessons they learned from going through the process themselves.
Follow key climate information from polar regions
Wednesday, February 8, 2023: 4:00pm-5:00pm ET
Speaker: Margie Turrin, Education Field Program Director, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory
Target Audience: Grades 8-12
Polar regions are the site of profound climate change and often “teleport” observable changes to us, but it’s easy to ignore these signals if we’re not paying attention. In this session, we’ll explore some of the signal ranges we measure in the North and South Pole, what they mean for the polar regions, and how they relate to those of us beyond the polar regions.
Climate Symphony: How climate variability affects global rainfall patterns
Wednesday, March 8, 2023: 4:00pm-5:00pm ET
Moderator: Laurel DiSera, PhD student, International Institute for Climate and Society
Target Audience: Grades 8-12, Undergraduate Students
Climate variability plays an important role in the Earth system, affecting rainfall differently from year to year and from decade to decade. This presentation will focus on different climate variability models and their impact on rainfall, the difference between climate variability and climate change, and what happens when different climate variability models interact with each other. Our goal is to think of the climate system as an orchestra playing a symphony!
Everything you wanted to know about climate mobility but were afraid to ask
Wednesday, April 12, 2023: 4:00pm-5:00pm ET
Speaker: Alex de Sherbinin, Senior Research Scientist and Associate Director of Scientific Applications, International Earth and Science Information Network Center
Target Audience: Grades 9-12, Undergraduate Students
Climate change is slowly reshaping settlement patterns as humans respond to increasing variability and extremes. People may move voluntarily, they may be forced or encouraged to move through incentives, or they may be displaced and either stay in a new location or return. We will explore these themes as they relate to climate mobility in high- and low-income settings around the world, including implications for climate justice.
Natural Concepts for Unnatural Problems: Ecosystem-Based Disaster Reduction
Wednesday, May 10, 2023: 4:00pm-5:00pm ET
Speaker: Hannah Dancy, Program Coordinator, National Disaster Prevention Center
Target Audience: Grades 8-12, Undergraduate Students
For many, climate change means an increasing frequency and intensity of a variety of natural disasters, including floods, droughts, fires and storms. New infrastructure can be expensive to build and maintain, while old infrastructure collapses under the stress of modern climates. In this session, we will discuss natural strategies for adapting to unnatural disasters, and what other services these new strategies can provide to our communities.
Harnessing the power of community to fight floods and protect our waterways
Wednesday, June 14, 2023: 4:00pm-5:00pm ET
Speaker: Paul Gallay, Senior Staff Assistant and Project Leader for Resilient Coastal Communities, Sustainable Urban Development Center
Target Audience: Grades 9-12, Undergraduate Students
Climate-driven flooding is worsening due to rising sea levels and rapidly intensifying storms, and many of the worst impacts are already being felt by vulnerable communities amid decades of underinvestment in water quality and ecosystem health. To protect our most vulnerable communities, government planners must find new ways to honor and focus the wisdom that only these communities have. Can we build the just and equitable partnerships we need to survive climate change?
