Climate Justice Plenary
Gemara Gifford
Gemara Gifford is a Ph.D. candidate at Colorado State University studying the pathways and barriers to rematriation and Indigenous-led conservation in the Southwestern United States. Gem is a former wildlife scientist with a background in community-based conservation, nonprofit leadership, and rematriation movements (derechos territoriales) in Latin America. Gem’s family instilled in her a deep love and responsibility for animals and the environment and passed on their legacy as Chicano labor rights organizers from the San Luis Valley and the coal mining camps of Southern Colorado. Gem is also the owner of Mending Mountains Collective LLC, where she offers services as a professional facilitator and consultant.
CMarie Fuhrman
CMarie Fuhrman is the author of Salmon Weather: Writing from the Land of No Return, Camped Beneath the Dam: Poems and the co-editor of Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, and Poetry and Native Voices: Indigenous Poetry, Craft, and Conversations. She has published poetry and nonfiction in numerous magazines, including Terrain.org, Emergence Magazine, The Ex-Puritan, Northwest Review, Yellow Medicine Review, Poetry Northwest, and various anthologies. CMarie is an award-winning columnist for the Inlander and the Director of the Elk River Writers Workshop. CMarie is the Associate Director of the Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Western Colorado University, where she teaches poetry and nature writing. CMarie is the host of Colorado Public Radio's Terra Firma podcast. She is a former Idaho Writer in Residence and lives in the Salmon River Mountains of Idaho.
Climate Change Plenary
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Scott Denning, PhD
Scott Denning is Emeritus Professor of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University and Distinguished Visiting Professor of Climate Science at Yale University. He was the founding Science Chair of the North American Carbon Program and led a large research group studying climate-ecosystem interactions in the North Woods of Wisconsin, agroecosystems of Iowa, the Oklahoma prairie, the Amazon rainforest and the Canadian Boreal Forest. A former Editor of the Journal of Climate, his 115 papers in the refereed climate literature have been cited more than 18,000 times. Every three years, he teaches climate change to hundreds of undergrads exploring the Global South on a floating campus called Semester at Sea. He lives in Fort Collins, CO but spends moonless weekends at a remote cabin at timberline in Wyoming, photographing distant galaxies.
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Quentin Hays
Quentin Hays is the Wildlife and Renewables Program Director and a Senior Wildlife Ecologist at GeoSystems Analysis, Inc., where he leads a team focused on siting, permitting, and mitigation planning for large renewable energy projects in the U.S. and internationally. He has been working in the wildlife and renewables space for nearly 20 years, and as a professional wildlife biologist for 25. His work has taken him from the Arctic to the Tropics and covered multiple taxa, including birds, bats, small mammals, and ungulates. He is currently helping lead mitigation planning and implementation for the largest renewable energy project in the history of the western hemisphere. Prior to moving into the private sector, Quentin taught college in New Mexico. He is Past President of the New Mexico and Oregon Chapters of The Wildlife Society and received the Fellows Award from The Wildlife Society in 2023. He is a resident of the Pacific Northwest, living in Corvallis, Oregon with his wife and two daughters. When not working, Quentin spends time climbing Cascade volcanoes, floating northwest rivers with his family, or slowly running trail races with his much faster friends.
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Panelist: Tomas Kamienski
Tomas Kamienski is a regional eagle biologist with the division of migratory birds – US Fish and Wildlife Service, serving the Mountain Prairie Region. Tomas provides technical expertise and support to many partners, industries, and to the public as related to migratory bird conservation with an emphasis on eagles. Prior to his current position Tomas worked as a rangeland management specialist, natural resources specialist, and wildlife biologist for the Bureau of Land Management; wildlife biologist for the Natural Resources Conservation Service; and an energy biologist for the private sector. Tomas earned a B.S. in Wildlife Science and a M.S. in Range Science and GIS from New Mexico State University.
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Panelist: Angela Boag, PhD
Angela Boag, Climate Resiliency Policy Lead at Colorado Parks and Wildlife, advises CPW leadership and agency staff on emerging climate-related threats, long-term trends and adaptation opportunities. Angela earned her Master's degree in Forest and Conservation Sciences from the University of British Columbia and PhD from the University of Colorado Boulder where she studied climate change and wildfire impacts on western forests.