1541
Keeping Current: USU Experts Track Colorado River as Regional Water Crisis Deepens
Water levels in Lake Powell and Lake Mead fell to historic lows this summer, with managers across seven Western…
RIVERS
3424
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.
2099
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…
4183
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…
5479
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…
2199
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…
2740
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…
9023
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…
5965
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…
3594
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.
7078
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…
3877
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…