The Corporate Water Risk and Strategy Workshop is a six-week, student-run course that provides a platform for groups of students from across Yale to collaborate and work with a client on a current water-related business or supply-chain question.
Over the 6-week course, students will strengthen their understanding of water risk and management through presentations from experts in the field and conversations with the client and stakeholders. Students will analyze the topics of water resource materiality and risk through a holistic lens, with the end goal of developing solutions that address the shared risk water challenges pose to a supply-chain, from agricultural to corporate operations. The case study presented by the client will provide students with a basic fluency in the terminology of water risk, as well as the relevant tools, ideas and processes needed to improve stakeholder communication and water resource management. At the end of the course, student groups will present their findings and proposals to the client.
This year’s client is Atlantic Sea Farms, a kelp aquaculture company based in Maine. Atlantic Sea Farms was founded in 2009 and was the first commercially viable seaweed farm in the United States, intending to diversify how US coastal waters are used and providing a domestic, fresh, healthy alternative to imported seaweed products. Atlantic Sea Farms is dedicated to finding new ways for lobster fishermen to work on the water while improving the health of our oceans.
Atlantic Sea Farms is interested in benchmarking the environmental benefits of kelp production compared to analogous produce, as well as documenting other environmental and health benefits of kelp.
