Kentucky Storm Resilience: Documentaries & Discussion

Weather-related catastrophes have all too often severely impacted communities and hampered economic growth in the commonwealth. Kentucky NSF EPSCoR’s CLIMBS project will hold a screening of two documentaries. After the documentaries, there will be a panel discussion with a Q&A session about flooding resilience, featuring professionals across disciplines. This event will provide an avenue for further collaboration and potential partnerships on this topic across institutions, organizations, and businesses.

All Is Not Lost, by the non-profit, Letcher County-based media group Appalshop, underscores the unprecedented nature of the 2022 Eastern Kentucky flood and through in-depth community interviews, and showcases Letcher County's efforts to recover and rebuild. CLIMBS - Kentucky Climate Resilience - The Documentary highlights how CLIMBS, the collaborative research project from KY NSF EPSCoR, is seeking to build climate resilience through interdisciplinary research across the commonwealth.

These films will hopefully spark collaboration — spotlighting CLIMBS' mission while uniting Kentucky’s storm resilience builders across disciplines. Truly, an event to valorize Kentucky's resilience network. Please join us!

About KY NSF EPSCoR’s CLIMBS:

CLIMBS (Climate Resilience through Multidisciplinary Big Data Learning, Prediction & Building Response Systems) is a five-year Research Infrastructure Improvement (RII Track-1) award from the National Science Foundation’s Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (NSF EPSCoR). It is investing $20 million into advancing Kentucky’s climate resiliency, using a collaborative, statewide approach to bring the best and brightest minds together to tackle climate resiliency in Kentucky. An additional $4 million investment is provided by the Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development. For more: https://kynsfepscor.uky.edu/climbs/

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