WRC/PNNL SULI Water Internships Available

Deadline for Summer 2017: Jan 13, 2017 at 5:00 PM ET Notification by: Feb 2017 The State of Washington Water Research Center (WRC) is pleased to be partnering with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) to offer undergraduate internship opportunities to WSU undergraduates who are interested in water resources. This new internship experience operates within […]

Spend summer 2017 under the big sky in Montana!

2017 Summer Session (3 & 5 credit classes start 26 Jun) U of Montana Flathead Lake Biological Station Jun 26-Jul 21 Field Ecology | Jun 26-Jul 7 Conservation Ecology Jul 10-21 Landscape Ecology / Aquatic Microbial Ecology Jul 24-Aug 4 Alpine Ecology / Stream Ecology Aug 7-18: Lake Ecology / Forest & Grassland Ecology / […]

Congress on Harnessing Big Data for the Environment

American Geophysical Union Conference Center, Washington, D.C. December 6-7, 2016 The volume of data generated today – and our ability to process and analyze it – is unprecedented. This new big data paradigm results in data sets that are too large and too complex to be processed by traditional applications. When supported by emerging analytical […]

Study finds life under lake ice complex, surprisingly active

By Eric Sorensen, WSU science writer PULLMAN, Wash. – As long as ecologists have studied temperate lakes, the winter has been their off-season. It’s difficult, even dangerous, to look under the ice, and they figured plants, animals and algae weren’t doing much in the dark and cold anyway. But an international team of 62 scientists […]