Earth Day, Every Day!: The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment

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Civic Engagement

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Family, School Age (ages 6-11), Adult
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The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment at Texas State University is dedicated to inspiring research, innovation and leadership that ensures clean, abundant water for the environment and all humanity. The Center’s headquarters is located on the site of an environmentally, culturally, and archaeologically significant resource, Spring Lake, which serves as a living laboratory, a community center, and an irreplaceable educational resource.

The Meadows Center is a showcase for research, education, stewardship, and environmental leadership projects. We bring together departments and research centers to both engage in scholarly inquiry and provide practical, science-based solutions to complex water-related challenges across Texas and around the world.

 

About the presenter:

Carrie Thompson is a recognized leader in natural resource administration, stakeholder partnerships and creative, solutions-oriented conservation delivery. With a multi-disciplinary background in the physical and biological sciences, conflict resolution, and natural resources policy and administration, she has served in leadership roles for some of the nation’s most complex environmental challenges.

Previously, Carrie was Managing Principal for Water Table Consulting, LLC, Senior Program Manager and Freshwater Sector Lead for the U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution, Associate Director for Freshwater Protection for The Nature Conservancy in Texas, and she spent fifteen years with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as an Administrator and Biologist, specializing in conservation partnerships (particularly those involving endangered species, water, private land and agricultural interests).

Carrie is a North Texas native with a Master of Public Service and Administration and Natural Resource Management from the George Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University. She started her time as an Aggie by earning her Bachelor of Science in Geography and Environmental Science.