Student Opportunities

Water Resources Research National Competitive Grants Program: Water Resources Research National Competitive Grants Program: Announcement No. G17AS00027 under 104(g)

Deadline: Feb 15, 2017 Proposals are sought on the topic of improving and enhancing the nation’s water supply and availability, and promoting the exploration of new ideas that address or expand our understanding of water problems. For more information and to apply.

Water Innovation Network for Sustainable Small Systems: Emerging Technologies Program

Request for Proposals: Due January 5, 2017 WINSSS is looking for proposals that address one or more key gaps in the group of technologies available to small drinking water systems. Proposals funded under this program may involve bench-scale, pilot-scale, or full/demonstration-scale treatment testing, sensing and monitoring technologies, or other studies that have potential to be […]

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 […]

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 […]

CE 517 Mechanics of Sediment Transport

Instructor: John Petrie (j.petrie@wsu.edu) Lecture time: 10:10 – 11:00 am M, W, F Room: 324 Bryan Hall Course Overview: This course introduces flow in alluvial streams and analytical tools for predicting the results of flow-sediment interactions. This material provides the base knowledge for solving complex river engineering problems to support stream restoration, protection of infrastructure, […]

Anticipating the Environmental Impacts and Behavioral Drivers of Deep Decarbonization Request for Applications

Closing Feb 10, 2017 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is seeking applications proposing research that will contribute to an improved ability to understand and anticipate the public health and environmental impacts and behavioral drivers of significant changes in energy production and consumption in the United States, particularly those changes associated with advancing toward the […]