What We Do

The Kentucky Climate Consortium is building a network of experts across the state to support climate research, teaching, and outreach.

Events

Climate Chats

Monthly hour long chats from a wide variety of speakers relating to ideas of climate change and/or sustainability

Annual Business Meetings

Hybrid meetings where members come together to discuss their work, share ideas, and hear from our annual keynote speaker

Kentucky Climate Symposium

A day-long event to bring together students and experts from higher education, government, industry, media, indigenous groups, and communities to share information and resources on climate change.

Grant-Funded Projects

Because of our coal-producing history and our insulation from early climate impacts such as sea-level rise, Kentuckians have a unique perspective on how cultural, economic, and geographical forces have affected our relationships with climate change.

Funded by the Kentucky Oral History Commission, this project collected over 40 interviews from from Kentuckians who have been involved in three climate-related areas: research, policy, and activism.

Interviews from this project are stored at the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky. The full collection can be accessed here.

The KYCC was awarded a grant in Fall 2022 by the University of Kentucky (UK) Cooperative for the Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS) to provide media training to academics working on environmental and climate issues.

Additional support was provided by the UK Departments of Geography; Plant and Soil Sciences; and Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies, as well as the Kentucky Geological Survey and the Kentucky Water Resources Research Institute.

The media training workshop was led virtually by the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Public Communication Initiative and had over 70 participants drawn from the KYCC and other sponsoring units.

Communications

The Kentucky Climate Consortium as we know it today began as a simple Listserv to share announcements, events, publications, and funding opportunities. Today, the Listserv continues to serve as one of the main active points of communication for members.