Jack Schmidt, professor in USU's Department of Watershed Sciences and head of the U.S. Geological Survey's Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center, has long studied the highly diverted river. He's among the team of scientists that designed a series of controlled releases of water from Glen Canyon Dam, starting in 1996, in an effort to restore habitats altered by the use of dams.

Schmidt will discuss his research and conservation efforts on the river and talk about the tough decisions U.S. citizens face in determining how to manage the Colorado.