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Webinar: Water Quality Trading in Oregon and What it Means for WA State

Tuesday, May 19, 2026 12:00 to 1:00 PM PT   Many rivers in the Pacific Northwest are 303(d) listed for excessive water temperatures threatening ESA listed species. Water temperature TMDLs have been developed for many of these rivers and thermal loading limitations have been put on dischargers. In 2016, Oregon DEQ launched a water quality […]

Universities Council on Water Resources (UCOWR) Annual Conference

June 8-10, 2026 San Antonio, TX Please join us in beautiful San Antonio, TX for the 2026 Annual Water Resources Conference. UCOWR and NIWR invite you to engage with leading researchers, educators, water managers, students, and other professionals from across the globe as we seek to develop new and innovative collaborations and transdisciplinary solutions to […]

AWRA-WA Cedar River Watershed Tour

Friday, June 26, 2026 | 9:45 AM - 1:30 PM PT   The AWRA Washington Section invites you to join a tour of the Cedar River Watershed! Student chapters and professionals are encouraged to attend and network. The Cedar River Watershed supplies drinking water to 1.6 million people in the Seattle metropolitan area, protecting one […]

CyberWater2 Training Application Due

CyberWater2 is an NSF-funded cyberinfrastructure project that is developing an open, community-driven platform for water science modeling. By integrating diverse datasets, hydrologic models, and high-performance computing into a unified workflow environment, CyberWater2 enables researchers, educators, and students to build, execute, and share reproducible computational workflows with minimal programming. The project aims to reduce the time […]

Webinar: What’s in a Snow Model? A Four-Decade Legacy of iSnobal Development

Presenter(s): Andrew Hedrick (USDA-NWRC) Seminar Date: Sep 22, 2026 About the Talk: iSnobal is an energy and mass balance snow model that has grown over the last four decades from a simple research tool into an operational basin scale system for estimating how much energy and water are stored in our mountain snowpack. Its design […]

Webinar: The Ultimate Geologic Sponge: Volcanic aquifers and their outsized importance in the future of water in the West

Presenter(s): Gordon Grant (USFS) Seminar Date: Sep 29, 2026 About the Talk: In young volcanic landscapes, thick sequences of basalt flows create groundwater aquifers that store prodigious volumes of water. Drawing on over 30 years of research in the central Oregon Cascades, this talk will explore the hydrogeology, geomorphology, and landscape evolution of young volcanic […]

Webinar: LEVERAGING HYDROSHARE FOR COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH DATA MANAGEMENT

OCTOBER 6, 2026 / 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM ET Location: Virtual Managing research data well is a skill that pays off long before publication and long after it. This 2.5-hour lecture-style webinar walks researchers through how HydroShare supports the full research data lifecycle, from initial planning and collection through description, preservation, discovery, and integration. […]

Western Water Network for Addressing Complex Water Issues 2026 Annual Meeting

October 7 & 8, 2026 October 7th: 8:00 am - 5:00 pm October 8th: 8:00 am - 12:00 pm   OSU Portland Center 555 SW Morrison Street, Suite 200 Portland, OR 97204   Water is the foundation of thriving agriculture and resilient forests in the western U.S. Climate change and competing uses are altering patterns of […]

Application due: Snow Measurement Field School

SNOW MEASUREMENT FIELD SCHOOL 2027 JANUARY 4 - 7, 2027 APPLICATION DEADLINE 10.7.2026 Location: Bretton Woods, NH Instructors Keith Jennings University of Vermont Elizabeth A Burakowski University of New Hampshire More instructors to be announced! Participants must apply for this workshop. This has been a very popular program, and space is limited. Applications will be […]

AWRA-WA Annual State Section Conference 2026

Theme: The Future is Now: How the emerging issues of the recent past have come to define our water-scarce present. When: Thursday, October 8, 2026 Time: 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM (program); 5:00 - 6:30 PM (networking reception) Where: Mountaineers Seattle Program Center, 7700 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle, WA Description: A quarter of the way through the twenty-first century, we […]