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WRC team wins the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association’s 2016 Bruce Gardner Memorial Prize for Applied Policy Analysis

The State of Washington Water Research Center team led by WRC Director Jonathan Yoder won the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association’s  Bruce Gardner Memorial Prize for Applied Policy Analysis of 2016 for their report “Benefit-Cost Analysis of the Yakima Basin Integrated Plan Projects” and related outreach efforts (https://swwrc.wsu.edu/2014ybip).  The award was presented at the AAEA Annual […]

2016 AGU Fall Meeting

Grand Challenges in Earth System Modeling: Decadal Climate Variability and Change, Prediction and its Applications The deadline for abstract submissions is Wednesday, 3 August 23:59 EDT For more information

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Columbia River Long Term Water Supply and Demand Forecast Workshops

The Columbia River Long Term Water Supply and Demand Forecast project team is preparing an updated long-term water supply and demand forecast for the Washington Department of Ecology, Office of Columbia River and would like your feedback. The Forecast team includes researchers from Washington State University, University of Utah, Aspect Consulting, and the Washington Department […]

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Environmental Courses for Spring 2016

Click on a class title for more information: Anthropology ANTH 591- Feeding the World: from the past, to traditional food systems, to GMO’s (d’Alpoim Guedes)   Civil and Environmental Engineering CE 503- Air Quality Management (Herring) CE 506- Biosphere-Atmosphere Exchange Methods- Theory and Measurements of Turbulent Fluxes (Liu) CE 517- Mechanics of Sediment Transport (Petrie) […]

The Changing American Landscape and its Connection to Climate

The ACS is sponsoring a talk by Dr. Evan DeLucia on 9 November 2015 (CUB 210- Junior Ballroom East) at 4:10pm.  Dr. DeLucia became director of the Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment whose aim is to synergize environmental efforts on the University of Illinois campus with nearby cities by promoting green sustainability education and […]

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Success of CEREO-sponsored Software Carpentry and Data Carpentry workshops in Spring 2015

CEREO received enthusiastic feedback on the two workshops it hosted during the Spring 2015 semester.  These workshops were aimed at increasing scientific productivity and reproducibility by teaching researchers fundamental software skills and best practice techniques for working with and analyzing data.  The Software Carpentry workshop (April 27-28, 2015) led by Kara Woo (WSU) and Karl […]