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Item Open Access Advanced Nuclear Energy: An Overview(University of Wyoming Libraries, 2025-10-30)“Advanced Nuclear Energy: An Overview” is a re-recorded version of a presentation given on July 28, 2025 in Kemmerer, Wyoming at a community conversation convened as part of the U.S. Department of Energy-funded project Engaging Wyoming Communities in Advanced Nuclear Energy Facility Siting. This presentation summarizes the main elements of advanced nuclear energy--what it is, how it differs from conventional nuclear energy, and why there is so much interest in it today. It covers the range of technical design features of advanced reactors--and small modular reactors in particular--and discusses the feasibility of meeting promises to reduce waste, costs, and safety and proliferation risks. Guided by the question, Can these next-generation advanced nuclear reactors help society broadly as well as local communities meet our current and future needs safely, affordably, and cleanly?, this presentation puts TerraPower’s Natrium demonstration project in Kemmerer into the broader context of the political, economic, and technical landscape of advanced nuclear energy.Item Open Access Soil Health Workshop(2025-09-25)This interactive lesson introduces students to the concept of soil health and how soil helps ecosystems respond to threats like drought. Students will learn the basics of soil health, go outside to collect soil samples, then test those soils for different properties that relate to soil health. This lesson works best for 8-20 students, grades 6-12, and a 1-1.5 hour class period, though can be adapted for different age groups and time constraints. If there is no outdoor access, instructors can bring in bags of soil for distribution, or students can bring soil samples collected from home.Item Open Access Proceedings: Wyoming Outdoor Recreation Summit(University of Wyoming Libraries, 2025-05-01)The Wyoming Outdoor Recreation Summit (WORS) supports Wyoming’s 2nd-biggest industry–tourism–through one of its biggest drivers: outdoor recreation. Through relevant, representative, and engaging programming across sectors, the WORS provides a space for Wyoming’s outdoor recreation community to come together, encouraging widespread synergy and broad support for outdoor recreation. The 2025 Wyoming Outdoor Recreation Summit had three goals, aligned with its theme: Foster collaboration and partnerships among Wyoming’s outdoor recreation stakeholders to strengthen community connections and shared initiatives. Support workforce development in the outdoor recreation sector by exploring education, training, and career opportunities. Enhance access to resources—including funding, tools, and information—that help communities grow and sustain outdoor recreation efforts.Item Open Access Thunder Basin National Grasslands 2017 Public Workshops and Cooperative Working Group Report(University of Wyoming Libraries, 2017-01-01)Following a situation assessment indicating stakeholder interest in collaboration around prairie dog issues on Thunder Basin National Grassland and three collaborative learning workshops in spring of 2016, the Ruckelshaus Institute convened another set of workshops on behalf of the U.S. Forest Service. These workshops were open to the public and were meant to allow all stakeholders to continue learning about prairie dog colony management in the grasslands. The results of these workshops informed the simultaneously convened Cooperative Working Group, which consisted of government entities with authority relating to prairie dog management.Item Open Access Thunder Basin National Grasslands 2016 Collaborative Learning Workshops Report(University of Wyoming Libraries, 2016-01-01)Following a situation assessment indicating stakeholder interest in collaboration around prairie dog issues on Thunder Basin National Grassland, the Ruckelshaus Institute convened three collaborative learning workshops in spring of 2016 on behalf of the U.S. Forest Service. The workshops brought together the people who live in or have a direct interest in the Thunder Basin National Grassland for discussions about the past, present, and future of the grasslands. The goal was to ensure that all parties were working from the same information and to lay groundwork for future informed decision-making about grasslands management.
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