We are proud to introduce the fellows joining us for Field Workshop 2026: Designing for Adaptation in a Time of Prolonged Drought.
This year’s cohort brings together twelve outstanding graduate students and early-career practitioners working across hydrology, law, planning, landscape architecture, communication, environmental science, design, and the arts. Together, they represent a wide range of experiences and approaches, united by a shared interest in land, water, climate adaptation, and community-based practice.
Over the course of three weeks in July, the cohort will travel through Colorado’s San Luis Valley and northern New Mexico, engaging with local practitioners, researchers, farmers, land stewards, and community members. Through field visits, conversations, and collaborative synthesis projects, fellows will explore the ecological, cultural, and political dimensions of adaptation in dryland systems.
Field Workshop 2026 Cohort:
Angie Kaufman (she/her) — Connecticut
Discipline: Law, Environmental Management
Focus: Environmental Justice in Drylands
Audrey Snyder (she/her) — California
Discipline: Regenerative Studies, Visual Art, Ecology
Focus: Fire Ecology, Regenerative Grazing, Land Tenure Systems, Community-based Fire Management, Art, Ecology and Animal Studies
Cameron Blakely (he/him) — Oregon
Discipline: Planning, Urban Design, Landscape Architecture
Focus: Regional Planning, Design, Visual Storytelling, and Systems Analysis
Euwan Kim (she/her) — New Jersey
Discipline: Hydrogeology
Focus: Watershed Systems and Regenerative Agriculture
Kelsey Weeks (she/her) — Colorado
Discipline: Water Conservation, Plant Pathology
Focus: Water Conservation and Sustainability
Kethry Soares (she/her or they/them) — Colorado
Discipline: Hydrology
Focus: Groundwater Resource Management and Contaminant Mitigation in Aquifers
Leah Coe (she/her) — Colorado
Discipline: Geospatial Science
Focus: Watershed and Aquifer Systems/Land Tenure, Cultural Memory and Identity
Moneer Ba-Ahmad (he/him) — Massachusetts
Discipline: Landscape Architecture
Focus: Design in Arid Environments and Climate Justice
Noah Silber-Coats (he/him) — Arizona
Discipline: Geography
Focus: Climate Adaptation, Political Ecology, Water Management and Policy
Stephanie McMorran (she/her) — New York
Discipline: Environmental Planning, Water Management, Building Decarbonization
Focus: Regenerative and Sustainable Development
Xiaodong Yan (he/him) — Colorado
Discipline: Applied Communication
Focus: Environmental Justice, Ethnic & Gender Studies, Deliberation, Difficult Dialogue and Conversation
Ximena Diaz (she/her) — New York
Discipline: Landscape Design, Community Engagement, Visual Art
Focus: Watershed and Aquifer Systems, Soil Health and Regenerative Agriculture, Acequia Governance, Policy and Communal Water Systems, Land Tenure, Cultural Memory and Identity