Land, water, and air at Utah State University

It feels like a dynamic time at just about every level. If you want to stay up to speed on the land, water, and air aspects of news and policy, head over to our weekly newsletter—we just published our 100th episode! Also, check out our state legislative u...

September was a productive and busy month for land, water, and air research. Our Bear Lake researchers presented their work to community members and stakeholders in Garden City. The Great Salt Lake Strike Team reconvened and is now prepping additional res...

Happy fall semester! We’re coming back from a very productive and busy summer, and I’m excited to share a few of the projects we’ve seen move forward over the past few months. We’re working to compile our 2024 Report to the Governor and Legislature on Uta...

USU faculty, I hope your summer is going well! This week we had the opportunity to co-launch a new statewide group, the Utah Association of Policy Centers. This informal consortium includes any university institute or center that has some connection to p...

Today, we are thrilled to announce the launch of the Colorado River Collaborative, a new statewide media group to help train, inform, and support news organizations in telling solutions-focused, local-perspective news stories on the Colorado River. USU’s ...

Happy April! This month, we’re asking for any faculty associated with Colorado River-related research to fill out this brief, 5-minute form so that we can share your work with a statewide network of journalists.

We enjoyed hearing from state leaders and researchers at our combined Northern Utah Water Users/USU Spring Runoff Conference last week. I think the main takeaways were 1) Water will continue to be a top issue in the state for years to come and 2) It’s goi...

In November, we were at the Utah Water Policy Conference, presenting new data on lake levels and conservation targets from the Great Salt Lake Strike Team to policymakers and other state leaders. I also really enjoyed joining some of our Bear Lake researc...

It’s been an exciting fall; we released our Report to the Governor and Legislature on Utah’s Land Water and Air, which featured the work of nearly 40 of our USU researchers. We appreciate all their exceptional research and hard work to put this report tog...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced that this year, just through August, there have been 23 weather extreme events in America that cost at least $1 billion. That’s a record over 2020’s 22 events, and there’s still four months to ...

Welcome to fall semester! We celebrated our first year of staffed operations last month, and, although on some days it feels like progress is slow, we look back at the past 12 months grateful for the work we've been able to accomplish in connecting policy...

We're excited to invite you to our open house, where we'll announce our interdisciplinary grant program focusing on Bear Lake. At the open house, we'll explain the opportunities available and the timeline.

Hello USU faculty, We hope you are enjoying your summer! Work of the institute hasn’t slowed down at all during these “slower” months. You can read about new partnerships, grants, and projects from the past month in the articles below. One intere

Hello USU faculty, Congratulations to all on the completion of the academic year! We're excited to announce recipients of our ILWA Impact Grant for 2023. (They are linked in the first story below.) We were heartened by the exceptional proposals s

Hello USU faculty, Finally! We're enjoying this week's spring-like temperatures and sunshine. At the same time, we're crossing our fingers that our challenge this year won't be with an over-abundance of much-needed water. As we look to the rest of

Greetings to our USU faculty friends! We recently rolled out a weekly email with a roundup of local, state, and national news stories about Utah land, water, and air. It's been well received, and we've similarly recognized the need to regularly reach o