Annual Symposium

For our 2024 iteration, highlights included the opening keynote delivered by Dr. Jonathan Foley of Project Drawdown, a closing keynote panel featuring panel featuring Pooja Tilvawala from the Youth Climate Collaborative, as well as panels centered on key environmental and social challenges facing the city of Austin.

Our 2023 symposium featured panel discussions, lightning talks, creative presentations, and posters from faculty, researchers, and students from more than 20 academic departments, as well as a dozen community-based partners.

The symposium brought together faculty, researchers, staff, students, practitioners, artists, and community members interested in applied interdisciplinary research on climate resilience, adaptation, and equitable and just transition strategies.

This year’s event helped introduce the pivot from funded research projects to Flagships. Building on the successes and lessons learned between 2018-2020, Flagship projects are designed to foster long-term interdisciplinary research collaboration and stakeholder engagement in key areas of resilience-related research.

This semester-long showcase series took place in the Fall of 2020. The presentations highlighted the Planet Texas 2050 research projects funded from 2019-2020 and pointed towards future directions and collaborations within and beyond the Planet Texas 2050 community.

This 1 hour ‘Special Virtual Conference’ replaced our Research Showcase, to give the Planet Texas 2050 community a chance to ask ourselves, “What can we learn from this current coronavirus crisis that can help us for the next time a disaster strikes?”

researchers and partners presented on their progress during their first year of activities and reflected on accomplishments and future directions for this interdisciplinary research program.