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Registration: Science Day 2026

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Overview
CCST and the California Natural Resources Agency invite you to register for Science Day 2026 in Sacramento! Science Day fosters collaboration and removes barriers to partnership between research institutions and the California State scientists.

Date and Location
CNRA Headquarters, 715 P Street, Sacramento, CA
Day 1: Monday, October 5th, 9am - 5pm PT
Day 2: Tuesday, October 6th, 9am - 12pm PT

Cost
Free to register! This event is generously hosted by CCST and CNRA, with additional support from sponsoring organizations.

Events include: 

  • Panel Discussions: Strengthening foundational science through partnership, exploring science career pathways for public good.
  • Poster session: Featuring cross-cutting research from groups across the state, including academic, state, and national lab scientists.
  • CCST's Science Translators Showcase: Featuring poster presenters who completed a science communication training program.
  • Breakout sessions: Identify current partnership challenges and opportunities, discuss cross-cutting topics and ideas, and communicating with state partners. 
  • Happy hour networking mixer: Continue the conversations from the day and discuss future opportunities for Day 2.

RSVP

Day 1: Monday Oct. 5 (9am - 5pm). Day 2: Tue. Oct. 6 (9am - 12pm).

The happy hour will be hosted offsite.
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Breakout Sessions

Descriptions
  1. From Information to Insights: Novel Observations and Data Integration for Decision Support. This breakout explores how California can better connect environmental data collection with the decisions that depend on it. The featured Lightning Talks surface a common challenge: as more sophisticated tools generate more observational data than ever, how do we extract meaningingful insights, integrate, share, and act on all this data across agencies and institutions? Speakers will share lessons learned and discuss what's needed to build a more connected, interoperable data ecosystem for environmental decision-making.
  2. Climate-Water-Energy Resilience – How to Make ‘Best Available Science’ Even Better. As California faces compounding climate, water, and energy pressures, this breakout examines how the state's scientific foundation for decision-making can keep pace. Lightning talks will address compound and cascading climate risks — where multiple hazards interact and amplify one another. The session will ask what "best available science" really means in practice, and what new tools, partnerships, and services are needed to keep California's climate adaptation science ahead of an increasingly complex risk landscape.
  3. Capturing Co-Benefits to Advance Multiple Policy Objectives. California's landscapes are being asked to do more than ever — support wildfire resilience, biodiversity, water supply, energy development, carbon sequestration, and economic opportunity, often on the same plots of land or in the same coastal zone. This breakout brings together researchers and practitioners with on-the-ground experience working at that intersection. Speakers will share how co-benefits thinking is being appplied — and where the biggest opportunities and obstacles remain — for managing landsacpes toward multiple policy goals at once.
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About Science Day
Science Day (Oct. 5-6, 2026) connects state scientists and policy makers with the incredible research and applied stewardship happening in universities, labs, and tribes across California. This event seeks to develop new or expanded partnership opportunities to support California in achieving its natural resource management goals including climate action, wildfire resilience, biodiversity stewardship, and supporting healthy coasts and oceans.
Sponsors
Thank you to our Science Day 2026 sponsors for supporting our programming:
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We invite sponsoring partners to support Science Day programming. If your organization is interested in helping to offer this event free to our policy and research communities, please contact Mackenna below.
Questions

If you have any questions about Science Day, please contact CCST Program Officer Mackenna Sullivan at [email protected]. 

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About Science Day

Science Day aims to connect state-level science and policy with the incredible research happening in universities, labs, and other research institutions across California. Through exploring the various initiatives being implemented by different state agencies, this effort seeks to develop new or expanded opportunities to support California in achieving its climate goals.

The inaugural Science Day was launched in close partnership with the California Natural Resources Agency and Secretary Wade Crowfoot in 2023.

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