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January 23rd, 2025
Conservation & Biodiversity Organizations
Colorado has beautiful mountain vistas, open prairies, and diverse climatic zones leading to wide varieties of vegetation and animal species. Land trusts and conservation organizations work to preserve Colorado’s biodiversity and agricultural heritage for the long-term benefits to our environment and for Coloradans. Join us to hear from conservation professionals sharing the challenges and opportunities they see for effectively preserving Colorado’s precious natural resources.
Location: Gordon Gamm Theatre, The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St, Boulder, CO 80302
Time:
5.30 pm - 8.00pm
Doors Open at 5.00 pm
Parking at The Dairy Arts Center: Free parking is available in the lot located on the west and north sides of The Dairy building. The parking lot entrance is on Walnut Street, between 26th Street and Folsom.
Free Transport from Fort Collins to Boulder - Students & Faculty of CSU: If you would like to take the free transport from Fort Collins to Boulder and back, please contact liz@coagrivoltaic.org
Please register your attendance so that we can adhere to venue capacity restrictions and ensure adequate catering.
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In his role as Agrivoltaics Senior Technical Specialist with the American Farmland Trust (AFT), Austin works with a broad range of stakeholders to advance farmer-centered solar projects around the country and ensure agricultural communities benefit from clean energy. Originally from the Pacific Northwest, Austin is now based in Colorado where he earned a B.S. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Colorado Boulder and an M.S. in Advanced Energy Systems from Colorado School of Mines. Prior to joining AFT, Austin was a graduate intern at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) where he worked on agrivoltaic irradiance modeling, agrivoltaic crop trials, and technical reports on agrivoltaics and agricultural decarbonization. Prior to NREL, Austin worked in commercial and industrial solar development, served as an Environmental Defense Fund Climate Corps Fellow, and volunteered at Jack’s Solar Garden, one of the largest agrivoltaic crop production sites in the US.
Austin Kinzer
Agrivoltaics Senior
Technical Specialist
American Farmland Trust (AFT)
Nancy Fishbein is the Director of Resilient and Connected Lands for the Colorado Program of The Nature Conservancy. Nancy’s team is responsible for protecting and stewarding critical lands across the state, as well as ensuring the Chapter’s alignment with the TNC’s global land protection goals, including building a network of resilient and connected landscapes. Nancy has served on the Colorado Conservation Easement Oversight Commission and on the board of the Colorado Coalition of Land Trusts. Prior to joining The Nature Conservancy in 1991, Nancy worked at the Adirondack Park Agency in upstate New York, where she also owned and operated an outdoor guiding business. Her first job in Colorado was as an environmental educator at the Keystone Science School. Nancy holds an MS in Natural Resource Policy from the University of Michigan’s School of Natural Resources and a BA in Environmental Studies from Middlebury College.
Nancy Fishbein
Director of Resilient and
Connected Lands
Colorado Program of The Nature Conservancy
David Klute is the Deputy Assistant Director for Species Conservation Programs with Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). David has worked for CPW for 22 years, first as the statewide bird conservation coordinator and then as supervisor of sensitive species conservation programs. Prior to that he was a migratory bird biologist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. He enjoys working to find creative solutions to complex conservation challenges at local, regional, national and international scales. David holds degrees in Wildlife Biology from the University of Missouri (B.S.), Kansas State University (M.S.) and the Pennsylvania State University (Ph.D.).