Kentucky NSF EPSCoR’s CLIMBS project will hold a screening of two documentaries. After the documentaries, there will be a panel discussion with a Q&A session about storm resilience, featuring professionals across disciplines. This event will provide an avenue for further collaboration and potential partnerships on this topic across institutions, organizations, and businesses. All Is Not Lost, by the non-profit, Letcher County-based media group Appalshop, underscores the unprecedented nature of the 2022 Eastern Kentucky flood and through in-depth community interviews, and showcases Letcher County's efforts to recover and rebuild. CLIMBS - Kentucky Climate Resilience - The Documentary highlights how CLIMBS, the collaborative research project from KY NSF EPSCoR, is seeking to build climate resilience through interdisciplinary research across the commonwealth.

The films will be followed by a panel discussion emceed by Shane Holinde of WKU and the KY Climate Center, a former TV meteorologist who covered the deadly tornadoes in 2021. Panelists include Rebekah Radtke (UK College of Design), Ryan Thigpen (UK EES & CLIMBS), Aaron Asbury (Film Director at Appalshop), and Trinity Adams (Graduate student at UK Appalachian Center). The free event is July 18, 9:15-noon, at UK’s Worsham Cinema in the Gatton Student Center.