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PBS Series 'Shared Planet' Features Riverscapes Restored by USU and Beavers, Nature's Engineers
An episode of PBS's "Shared Planet" follows an effort to revitalize a ranch by relocating beavers.
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Researchers Building a Toolbox to Analyze Dangerous Currents at Low-Head Dams
USU's Brian Crookston and BYU's Rollin Hotchkiss are developing a toolbox to help analyze dangerous reverse roller…
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Smoothing Rough Waters: USU Data Scientists Use Deep Learning to Identify River Rapids
Undergrad and grad student researchers are harnessing AI to compile a continental-scale, publicly available river…
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Fluvial Fingerprints: Major New Database Tracks Sediment Across Mississippi River Basin
The first basin-wide sediment fingerprinting database makes it possible to track where sediment is coming from and…
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Janet Quinney Lawson Institute for Land, Water & Air Hosts Colorado River Collaborative Training
ILWA recently hosted a two-day field tour and training event for journalists participating in the Colorado River…
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USU is Helping Support Utah's Favorite Fish
Students from the Quinney College of Agriculture and Natural Resources got their feet wet this summer with the Utah…
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Water Research to Operations: USU's Role in a National Consortium
CIROH is a national consortium of 28 institutions — including USU — committed to advancing water prediction and…
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A Story of Adaptation: Managing the Colorado River in an Uncertain Future
Working on a project funded by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, UWRL graduate student Homa Salehabadi has developed a…
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USU's Jack Schmidt on the State of the Colorado River
The Colorado River watershed, a vital source of water for seven U.S. states and Mexico, is in historic crisis.
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USU Internship Supports U.S. Forest Service in Monitoring Thousands of Rivers in the West
This summer, USU interns performed stream and river monitoring across the Northwestern U.S. alongside the U.S. Forest…
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Utah Conservation Corps Secures Community Forestry Partnership Grant
UCC has secured a grant to remove invasive species and reduce fuel loads on the Wuthrich property, 32 acres owned by…
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Holding Water: Redefining Reservoir Rules to Make Room for Environmental Stability
New research says that ecosystems could benefit from holding water in dams for when the environment needs it most.