The 20th Annual Palouse Basin Water Summit is taking place on Thursday, October 26th from 4:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the SEL Event Center. Erica Gies, an award-winning independent journalist who writes about water, climate change, plants and critters, will be a featured guest. To learn more please visit the event website and view the program.
Join the Graduate Research Traineeship: Rivers, Watersheds & Communities to become a STEM professional equipped to tackle challenges in the Columbia River Basin in collaboration with communities to ensure sustainable human and ecosystem health.
The Columbia River Basin is facing an invisible water quality crisis, negatively impacting human and ecosystem health. This interdisciplinary challenge requires expertise from a variety of fields to solve.
This program trains MSc and PhD students in engineering and science (incl. social sciences) to do research to tackle these problems, hand-in-hand with the communities impacted. By valuing Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Western science, students will learn how to find solutions to these pressing challenges with their communities.
Highlights:
The Water Research Center would like to acknowledge the students who presented their work during the poster session at the American Water Resources Association, Washington Section, annual conference on September 28, 2023.
Poster Title: Economic Consequences of Locational Restrictions on Water Trading: Gains from Trade and Third-Party Effects
Poster Title: Hydrologic and Geomorphic Investigations of Engineered Stream Crossings Under Interstate 90 in Washington State
Poster Title: Response of the Naches River to the Removal and Redesign of Nelson Dam
Poster Title: Reducing Stream Temperatures for Salmon Migration: Modeling Effective Shade in the Yakima River Basin
Poster Title: Estimating Evapotranspiration at Taneum Creek
* American Water Resources Association, Washington Section, fellowship recipient
Read more about changing water supplies and demands across eastern Washington in this article based on research led by the Washington Water Research Center in partnership with WSU’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources and the Washington Department of Ecology’s Office of Columbia River.
Photo: Jennifer Stephens/OCR (2017)
Are you interested in water resources? Have you considered pursuing the Water Resources Science & Management Certificate?
Learn more about the programs by clicking on the links below. The certificates are open to students from all colleges and disciplines who are interested in freshwater resources.
The program has graduated 41 students since 2019!
Organized by: Stockholm International Water Institute
August 20-24, 2023
Hybrid event: Online and in Stockholm, Sweeden
World Water Week 2023 is focused on innovation at a time of unprecedented challenges. The theme Seeds of Change: Innovative Solutions for a Water-Wise World invites us to rethink how we manage water. Which ideas, innovations, and governance systems will we need in a more unstable and water scarce world? This year, much of the content will build on discussions at the UN 2023 Water Conference and commitments to the Water Action Agenda.
Learn more and register at the World Water Week website.
The State of Washington Water Research Center is pleased to announce the 2023 Seed Grant recipients! The following projects will be funded under Section 104(b) of the Water Resources Research Act:
Details about the 2023 projects can be found here.
The GWTC conference is designed to highlight existing and new geospatial and technological tools to solve water resources-related problems. Submit an abstract by September 6, 2023. See conference website for details.
The conference seeks to bring together a diverse multi-disciplinary group of water professionals – to disseminate, share, and learn about research-based cutting-edge solutions to evaluate and address future water risks and improve how society can adapt to these risks. Submit an abstract between August 22 – October 6, 2023. See conference website for details.
The conference will highlight water challenges throughout the four corners of Washington State and the innovative ways that individuals are dealing with those issues. The conference will feature speakers from each of the four corners of Washington with varying perspectives, including agriculture, government, and tribal nations. Speakers will cover topics including municipal water law, adjudication, fish reintroduction, the Yakima Basin Integrated Plan, and climate change. The conference will start with an address from the keynote speaker, Derek Sandison, who is the director of the Washington State Department of Agriculture. Following Derek Sandison’s address there will be four separate panels, one dedicated to each corner of Washington. The last session will focus on more overarching, or non-region-specific changes and adaptations.
Conference details are available at the American Water Resources Association Washington Section website.
The Center of Excellence for Water (CoE) has the pleasure to launch the call for application for the “Third Water Energy Food Nexus School” that will take place at the AUC and online from 5 August to 2 September 2023.
Deadline for application: Sunday 2 July at 11:55 PM
Number of participants: 30.
More details about the program and the outcomes are available in the attached call.
Application form: https://bit.ly/3CUFxnV