Meetings & Conferences

Upcoming Conferences

Mountain Climate Conference (MTNCLIM), Silverton, CO. June 9-12, 2008

MSI serves as the local host of MTNCLIM, the semiannual meeting of the Consortium for Integrated Climate Research in Western Mountains (CIRMOUNT). This conference will bring 120 scientists to Silverton for 3 ½ days of presentations and discussion concerning climate and its effects in mountainous regions of western North America. A Workshop for Land Mangers will be offered following the scientific meeting on the afternoon of June 12.

Past Conferences

Climate Variability & Change in the San Juan Mountains:
A Stakeholder – Scientist Dialogue, Oct. 11-13, 2006

International Snow Science Workshop to be held in Telluride, Oct. 1- 6, 2006

Research Retreat in Silverton, Colorado, July 2005

Research Retreat in Boulder, Colorado, September 2005

MSI has sponsored two research retreats with the goals of: 1) attracting more researchers to the San Juan Mountains to conduct research, 2) increasing communication and facilitating collaborations among academic researchers and agency and non-profit scientists, 3) discussing potential research sites and projects, and 4) gathering input to help with MSI's research program and organizational planning.

Contact Dr. Koren Nydick, Director of Research & Education, to be included in our community of researchers. koren@mountainstudies.org .

State Of The San Juans “San Juan Mountains Science & Research: Linking Communities, Researchers & Practitioners”, September 24-26, 2004, Silverton, Colorado

A conference specially designed for presentation of academic and agency research; results of local watershed-based assessment and restoration efforts; and current natural, economic, and social conditions and trends in the San Juan Mountains.

Geological Society of America, 2003 Rocky Mountains Section Meeting in Durango, May 7-9, 2003

The 55th Annual Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Section will be hosted by the Department of Geosciences, Fort Lewis College, and was held on the campus of Fort Lewis College.

A Mountain Summit: Communities, Culture, and Conservation, September 25-28, 2002

MSI's inaugural conference in September of 2002 was a successful gathering of an eclectic group of people interested in the San Juan Mountains. Public lands managers, students, researchers, teachers and citizens all joined together to discuss their concerns about the region we live in and offered ideas for more effective stewardship strategies.

San Juan Mountains Workshop, August 9-10, 2000

This conference was designed to bring local, state and federal agencies along with academic institutions together to discuss a number of issues, including the unification of pertinent research and data generated from these groups, appropriate links and development of a digital library, establishment of an Alpine Research Center (which culminated in the founding of MSI in 2002) for the long-term study of the San Juan Mountains, development of educational programs that link research to teachers and students.