 We're at kind of a time now where we've got huge environmental challenges and Universities are not necessarily equipped to address the pressing environmental challenges of our time and I put together this panel of people who could speak to that how to reshape, retool, rethink academia in terms of the environmental space about how to we can better address these pressing challenges So we had panelists that were the directors of Institutes environmental institutes at different institutions the Woods Institute for the environment at Stanford the Institute on the environment at Minnesota and Earth Lab at the University of Washington the chief scientist of the Nature Conservancy who also Before he took this job was the director of a huge center at University of Queensland in Australia and then we had the a professor and Recent administrator of NOAA in the US and I would say the biggest take-home came from Lots of conversation that was summed up in show up We talked about personal relationships about early career and late career people engaging in Not just outreach, but real co-development of Solutions with people who are based with Tricky problems and need help from academics and that can really yield Interesting academic research that at the same time solves problems facing society today