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Directors of the Ambler Field Station and the Ambler Arboretum describe a tornado’s damage to the site, the strategic choices made during response and recovery, and the new directions in education, programming, and demonstrations taken in its wake.
Many initiatives — passive forest observation, a disturbance-ecology lab, horticultural displays, planning models of climate-resilient home landscapes, and more — are demonstrating what is possible in an educational setting that a tornado made unrecognizable overnight. Presenters explain how they justified and assessed the outcomes of unusual and unexpected responses to a natural disaster. Discuss how to leverage this climate-change-related event to align all programming to address a climate crisis.
The effects of climate change affect communities of color and underserved, neglected, and underrepresented communities disproportionately. This workshop inspires creative responses and unique ways to leverage the effects of natural disasters to build community resilience and model ways communities may effect change.
Attendees walk through a disaster area with uneven ground and must wear personal protective equipment.
Learning Objectives:
Assess the effects of a tornado in a natural area seldom affected by this type of natural disaster.
Articulate “outside the box” ideas for dealing with the effects of a natural disaster.
Develop a process for climate-resilient landscaping.
