Yampa Valley Sustainability Council is now accepting applications for its summer internship program.
The internship program seeks “to connect motivated students and young professionals with professional training and experience that puts them on track to sustainability professions and/or collaborations in the future,” A sustainability council news release states.
Internships are open to young professionals and high school, undergraduate, and graduate students in the Yampa Valley. Applicants with diverse backgrounds are especially encouraged to apply for this position. No previous experience is required, the release states.
The 12-week program brings interns into contact with Yampa Valley Sustainability Council staff and “engages them in our programs addressing sustainability issues in the Yampa Valley, while providing them with training and on-the-ground experience in nonprofit work.”
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STEAMBOAT SPRINGS While researchers are still sounding the alarm about drought this summer, a group of researchers from around the Yampa Valley found the snow that fell between Jan. 30 and Feb. 13 to be the sixth-wettest two-week period since 2000 with 15 inches snow water equivalent across the Yampa River Basin.
The study was led primarily by Marty Ralph, director of the Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes and a participant in the Yampa River Basin Rendesvouz.
Ralph said the Upper Colorado Basin, including the Yampa River, is incredibly important to understanding water around other parts of the Western United States, which is why his center in San Diego took interest in the topic.
Drought-stricken Colorado River Basin could see additional 20% drop in water flow by 2050
This is what climate change has brought.
“Aridification” is what Bradley Udall formally calls the situation in the western U.S. But perhaps more accurately, he calls it hot drought – heat-induced lack of water due to climate change. That was the core of research released in 2017 by Udall, a senior climate and water scientist at Colorado State University’s Colorado Water Center, and Jonathan Overpeck at the University of Michigan.
Their revelation was that the heat from climate change was propelling drought. “Previous comparable droughts were caused by a lack of precipitation, not high temperatures,” the study said. And all the factors at play were having compounding effects on each other that made the situation even worse. Those impacts were being felt most acutely on the biggest water system in the West – the Colorado River Basin.
Emi Cooper, a Steamboat Springs High School senior
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS Emi Cooper was excited to receive a text from the mother of Rep. Dylan Roberts telling her she received the Colorado Democrats Murphy Roberts Award an award issued to a Democrat younger than 25 years old that has shown commitment and dedication to the values of the Colorado Democratic Party.
“It’s really nice to have recognition for work,” Cooper said.
Cooper, a senior at Steamboat Springs High School, helped organize several movements for climate change action for youth in Routt County, which is why she won the award.
“Our generation is going to be the ones who face the consequences of climate change,” Cooper said. “The best way to combat that is by getting people my age involved in politics.”
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