Palouse Basin Water Summit This Summit is FREE and open to the public! Please join us to learn more about our water resources and the people who are making a difference. This year's keynote speaker is Brian Richter, President of Sustainable Waters and the topic is "Chasing Water: Moving from Scarcity to Sustainability." 4:30 pm-8:30 […]
“Water Resource Recovery Facilities….it isn’t simply wastewater treatment and disposal anymore.” This presentation will look at water scarcity including pressure from population growth and distribution; provide statistics about how much usable water there is available and how it is being used; discuss the importance of reusing water to the maximum extent possible, and beneficially recovering […]
Join Palouse Conservation District for a volunteer planting event to celebrate Orca Recovery Day to address downstream water quality issues. About this Event Far from ocean waters, surrounded by a sea of rolling hills, communities on the Palouse are thinking about how water impacts wildlife habitat downstream, including the endangered orca whale. Be part of […]
Our Spring WRSM Meeting & Social will be Tuesday December 3rd at 5pm in Coll 235. This will count as one of the three experiential requirements needed to complete the certificate, so if you haven’t been to one of these before and can make it, please do come! During this meeting, you’ll learn a little […]
Mon Jan 27, 2020| 3:10 pm | PACCAR Clean Tech Bldg. , Room 202 Dr. Alicia Cooperman, Princeton University Groundwater access and management are global problems. Water is a very salient political issue, and users, community leaders, and politicians commonly use water access as a powerful political bargaining tool. Successful common pool resource management systems […]
Predicting weather in Washington State: recent advances and opportunities Joe Zagrodnik Date: Monday, February 24th | Place: Paccar 202 | Time: 4:10-5pm As weather systems pass from the Pacific Ocean to Washington State, their temperature, moisture, and flow structures are modified by topography. The resulting variability in weather conditions on a variety of spatial scales […]
Jim Thebaut is an accomplished and experienced CEO, President with expertise and extensive achievements as an environmental planner, journalist, Executive Producer of documentaries, educator, world traveler and ambassador of diplomacy and a public policy expert. He has managed multi-disciplinary teams and created the public information education documentary feature projects THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST: ARE WE RUNNING […]
Dr. Indranil Chowdhury- Washington State University Sept 1, 2020 | 8:00am PST For connection information, please register using the following link: https://aucegypt.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_rRQSVOg4SmG-2pOq2XwGaw Providing an adequate supply of potable water is one of the grand challenges in the current century due to climate change, population and industrial growth. The rapid development of membranes for water treatment […]
Climate Extremes and Irrigation Water Source and Use Dominate Water Storage Changes Monitored By GRACE Satellites In Major U.S. Aquifers When: September 17th, 2020 at 1 pm ET Where: Online Join Microsoft Teams Meeting (Learn more about Teams | Meeting options) By: Dr. Bridget Scanlon There is considerable concern about water depletion caused by climate extremes (droughts […]
Phenological Whiplash in Lakes September 23, 2020 - 12:00pm EST / 9am PST Webinar Speaker: Hilary Dugan Visit the following link for connection information: https://necsc.umass.edu/webinars/phenological-whiplash-lakes Climate change is leading to overall warming and increasing variability across many ecosystems. In northern lakes, extremely early or late lake ice melt has cascading effects throughout the food web. […]