Future Guardians: Mobilising tomorrow’s environmental managers through experience.

As KISTERS researches and develops sensors and IT solutions that inform sustainable water management, we have asked about the condition of world that our children and then their children will inherit. Discussions led to a more important question: How well are we equipping tomorrow’s environmental managers?

Long-term environmental protection and climate resilience will require adaptable, persistent people who are empowered with subject matter expertise, access to scientific data, and tools for advanced analysis and collaboration.

Today’s environmental challenges are sufficiently daunting before graduates even apply to entry-level jobs. KISTERS Future Guardians programme invites the next generation of environmental leaders to have positive experiences through hands-on learning in nature and aspire to become environment stewards.

Introducing Future Guardians

Through this new global initiative, KISTERS and its regional partners are working towards the shared goal of connecting young people with science, environmental data, and action to protect the ecosystems they call home. They believe that fostering curiosity and personal growth enhances appreciation for the outdoors overall, and may even spark professional interest.

When selecting regional partners, cultures as well as climate-related opportunities and threats are considered especially particularly in light of the firm’s global projects. From coastal beaches to inland waterways and from forests to urban heat islands, Future Guardians aims to provide meaningful life experiences that will prepare the next generation of leaders to help their communities adapt, act, and thrive.

Young changemakers with access to education, information and technology will drive local activity and resilience.

Foundation for success

The Future Guardians framework blends technology and community empowerment:

• Purpose-driven impact
  This educational initiative is directly aligned with our core mission of empowering public agencies and private organisations with quality data to enable them to make better decisions. Student curiosity and scientific investigations are designed to answer specific questions. Future scientists learn to transform broad questions into hypotheses with measurable observations.
• Global consistency, local relevance
  Environmental challenges have nuances depending on where they occur. Each partnership under the Future Guardians umbrella reflects the local culture and ecological needs of the region of interest, whether that be addressing sea level rise and beach erosion in one area or river water quality and agricultural pollution in another.
• On the frontline of climate change
  Although KISTERS is a technology provider, our tools are only as powerful as the people using them, their analyses of monitoring data, and the communication of their insights –thereby transforming operations, policy, and public education to improve resilience.

Like us, our partners at Future Guardians partners recognise the invaluable role value of human minds, when combined with scientific data and beneficial technology, in managing natural resources.

Tomorrow’s leaders need training and ongoing support as they learn to harness information and make informed decisions that will impact their communities.

A legacy of environmental leadership.

KISTERS has a proven track record of providing robust monitoring solutions and software for water, weather and environmental data. The privately-held corporation has a strong presence in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, the Asia-Pacific region and North America. Governments and private sector enterprises at all levels seek out the company to facilitate data management and forecast model integration with regard to water security, environmental protection, and renewable energy optimisation.

Working at the intersection of sustainability, data and technology is rewarding in itself. As environmental challenges intensify, KISTERS aims to help train young people to be perseverant and confident in identifying and presenting solutions.

Let’s raise more Future Guardians.

Primary and secondary schools, youth environmental clubs, community conservation programmes and non-governmental organisations that train environmental leaders are all welcome to contact us for consideration.