HR!Day901 - Thu 4/18/24 Saving Great Salt Lake in the Face of Water Demand and Climate Change
Day 901 Thu 4/18/24 Saving Great Salt Lake in the Face of Water Demand and Climate Change
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Half of global lake water occurs in terminal basins with no outlet to the ocean. These saline lakes provide ecosystem services essential to biosphere integrity and human flourishing. However, nearly all the Earth’s 120 large terminal lakes are experiencing rapid decline due to human water overuse. The loss of these lakes triggers long-term environmental, health, and economic suffering at continental scales. There are no examples of successful terminal lake restoration, making this one of the greatest unsolved ecological crises of the Anthropocene.
This session will explore the status and prospects of the largest saline lake in the Western Hemisphere: Great Salt Lake. Speakers will explore the consequences of failing to rescue the lake, and the creative and collaborative solutions that are lake rescue effort that is currently coalescing thanks to community, state, and federal leadership.
Presenters
Carly Biedul is the Coordinator for Great Salt Lake Institute at Westminster University. She mentors students with lake related research and is especially involved in brine fly monitoring.
Darren Parry: Darren is the former chairman and councilman for the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation. He is the author of The Bear River Massacre: A Shoshone History. He teaches Native American History at Utah State University and environmental humanities at the University of Utah.
Tim Davis is the Deputy Great Salt Lake Commissioner. He has a wealth of experience in water management, including his work as the director of the Division of Drinking Water in the Utah Department of Natural Resources.
Sarah Null is a professor of watershed science at Utah State University. She serves on the state’s Great Salt Lake Strike Team focusing on environmental water managementwater supply, aquatic habitat, and climate change.
Chandler Rosenberg is the Deputy Director of the Great Basin Water Network. She has extensive experience in environmental advocacy, including spearheading the creation of the group Save Our Great Salt Lake and the Utah Food Coalition.
Ben Abbott is a professor of ecology at Brigham Young University and the executive director of Grow the Flow, a nonprofit focused on getting water to Great Salt Lake.
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