Featured piece by Professor Emily Huddart Kennedy in “2016’s Most Sinful Cities in America”

Emily Huddart Kennedy To what extent is sinful behavior innate versus influenced by your surroundings? My research has shown that environmental impact (e.g., carbon footprint, engagement in household “green” practices like recycling and buying organic products) is shaped more by context than it is by anything innate. For example, a study I conducted compared “green […]

CE543 Stochastic Hydrology

3 credits, TU and TH 10:35-11:50, Jan 08 – Apr 28, 2017 Instructor: Dr. Yonas Demissie, West134H, 509-372-7344, y.demissie@wsu.edu This is a graduate-level course aims at exposing the student to basic concepts, methods, and applications of stochastic modeling, data-assimilation and uncertainty analysis techniques to quantify the various sources of uncertainty and optimally integrate observed data […]

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14th Annual P3 Awards: A National Student Design Competition for Sustainability Focusing on People, Prosperity and the Planet

Open Date: 12/05/2016 – Close Date: 02/03/2017 This college student design competition highlights the use of scientific and engineering principles in creating innovative projects to research and develop sustainable solutions to real world challenges. The P3 Award competition is a two-phase team competition. For the first phase, interdisciplinary student teams submit proposals to compete for […]

Innovations at the Nexus of Food, Energy and Water Systems (INFEWS)

Due date is March 6, 2017. Maximum award is $2.5 million with a total estimated funds of $40 million. It is imperative that we determine how society can best integrate across the natural and built environments to provide for a growing demand for food, water and energy while maintaining appropriate ecosystem services. To meet these […]

17th National Conference and Global Forum on Science, Policy and the Environment

Integrating Environment and Health January 24-26, 2017, Washington, DC The mission of NCSE is to advance and inform environmental policy and decision making through science. Join over 1,000 leaders in science, technology, government, business, civil society, and education to consider cutting-edge issues, explore new technologies and best practices, identify research priorities, and recommend solutions for […]

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 […]