that acknowledge the importance of how decisions over water, allocations affectioned the delta and its species. this encouraged the governments to sit at one table through the colorado joint cooperative process and work together to find dedicated nonaccidental flows, dedicated flows of water to the delta. while still meeting urban needs, to me, this is absolutely amazing. in the safest climate change and massive drought, nonprofit groups and university scientists encourage our governments to work together. in summary, i d like to say that i recognize and that i know that often times we can sound depressing pointing out environmental problems but i hope through the example of the colorado and its delta, i have illustrated how the public in concert with nonprofits and university scientists can work together and when needed, engage our government to find solutions to the challenges that face our sharoned environment. at this moment with climate change and loss, it s crucial for
thanks for the nice introduction and for being here. i want to start off by saying this is a project i ve been thinking about a long time. the idea came to me 20 years ago when i was in puerto rico and a hurricane came to the tropical island where i was in the caribbean, and so i would never wish that on anyone as was a major hurricane, a pretty terrifying thing, but what amazed me is i came there to study tropical forests and i was on internship there, and i was surprised to see in the four months before i left the island, the leaves looked like the apocalypse after the hurricane. the leaves had grown back on the trees still standing, and even broken trees, they were sprouting afreash. . . so i thought i wonder if hurricanes might fit in. and that inspired me to come to the university of arizona and study, wanted to look into deep time and at the university of arizona there is a lot of good climate research courses and some of them that i was looking at re in pale leoclima